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WOD 12-15-14: Pull-Up Strength Training

"Look at everything as though you were seeing it for the first time or the last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory." -Betty Smith APK WOD 12-15-14 Start with an APK Warm-Up Pull-Up Strength Training Do 5 sets of 5 Pull-Ups at a high level of...

WOD 12-12-14: Vault Conditioning

"Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats." -Og Mandino APK WOD 12-12-14 Start with an APK Warm-Up Vault Conditioning Find a low wall, railing, table, or...

WOD 12-11-14: Broad-Jump to Box-Jump Challenge

"You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions." -Naguib Mahfouz APK WOD 12-11-14 Start with an APK Warm-Up Broad-Jump to Box-Jump Challenge We last tried this 3-20-14, check your training journal and see how...

WOD 12-10-14: Core and Sprints

"A wounded deer leaps the highest." -Emily Dickinson APK WOD 12-10-14 Start with an APK Warm-Up Core and Sprints 10 x :20 L-sit at the top of the minute (:20 L-sit, :40 rest) 5 x 100m sprint, each for time, rest :45 between each Finish up with...

WOD 12-9-14: Single-Leg Strength Training

"Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world." -John Milton APK WOD 12-9-14 Single-Leg Strength Training I'm always telling anyone who will listen...

WOD 12-8-14: Jump Power Training

"I have always believed that I should have had no difficulty in causing my rights to be respected." -Eli Whitney APK WOD 12-8-14 Start with an APK Warm-Up Jump Power Training Make sure to warm-up thoroughly! Box Jumps x3 Broad Jump x1 Perform three high-effort box...

WOD 12-5-14: Strength. Dips.

"We need to save the Arctic not because of the polar bears, and not because it is the most beautiful place in the world, but because our very survival depends upon it." -Lewis Gordon Pugh APK WOD 12-5-14 Start with an APK Warm-Up Strength. Dips. We last did this on...

WOD 12-2-14: Strides!

"Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence." -Russell Lynes APK WOD 12-2-14 Start with an APK Warm-Up Strides! Strides, in a parkour context, are basically a series of linked single-foot jumps. Strides demand a certain amount of leg strength...