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WOD 10-9-14: Hil Sprints

"People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do." -Lewis Cass APK WOD 10-9-14 Start with an APK Warm-Up Hill Sprints 4 x 50m hill sprints. Choose the steepest hill available and sprint at 100% effort, then walk down for rest. Sub 100m sprints w/ :45...

WOD 10-8-14: Challenge- Pull Ups

"Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you are scared." -Eddie Rickenbacker APK WOD 10-8-14 Start with an APK Warm-Up Challenge: Pull Ups 150 Pull-Ups for time. Scale as needed (Kipping, Jumping, Inverted Rows) DO THEM FULL RANGE...

Visiting Lisses

For anyone new to the world of parkour, let me explain. Lisses, and its neighbor Évry, is where parkour began. It is where the founders pushed themselves and explored their physical and mental boundaries. And it is where the famous Dame du Lac structure can be found...

WOD 10-7-14: Jump Power Training

"When you awaken some morning and hear that somebody or other has been discovered, you can put it down as a fact that he discovered himself years ago - since that time he has been toiling, working, and striving to make himself worthy of general discovery." -James...

WOD 10-1-14: Outdoor Gym

"Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd." -Annie Besant APK WOD 10-1-14 Start with an APK Warm-Up Outdoor Gym One of the things we hear a lot is that there's nowhere to train or...

New York Women’s Meetup

New York had one of it's first Women's meet ups this past weekend. Melanie Robin has been working closely with a ton of great people in New York to open up new Women's meet-ups. Caitlin Pontrella from the Movement Creative coached the first meet up quite a bit! The...

WOD 9-30-14: Core Conditioning

"Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole thing." -W. S. Merwin APK WOD 9-30-14 Start with an APK Warm-Up Core conditioning. From a hanging position on a bar or branch perform: 10 Toes to Bar 10 Windshield...

WOD 9-29-14: Burpee Conditioning

"In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." -Miguel de Cervantes APK WOD 9-29-14 Start with an APK Warm-Up Burpee Conditioning 30 Burpees for time Rest 2:00 50 Burpees for time Rest 5:00 30 Burpees for time Finish up with...