CrossFit NYC: The Black Box

Hey swingers, let's reschedule the dancing night for those who are interested in going. Our choices are:

Fri., July 20--swing, jump, boogie
Sat., July 21--swing [very last night of Midsummer Night Swing]

Vote in the comments, please!

(P.S.: There's also swing music this Thursday, July 12th but I'll be out of town.)

All pool party people, you're on your own tomorrow. Fever is gone but replaced by a pounding headache.
#$@%#$%&!!!

Oh I am gonna kick some Cindy butt tomorrow, I cant wait!

Hm...I'm going to have to miss this one...got burned tonight during my act...definitely not life threatening, but pretty painful, and I need to have it taken care of tomorrow morning. morning...unless any of you CF'ers are doctors, nurses, pharmacists, shamans, or traditional healers that can prescribe/make me an antibiotic ointment.
Otherwise...see you Monday!

Surfing weekend for me -- 3 sessions of about 2.5 hours each. Nothing big, but lots of clean longboarding.

Was thinking of trying Cindy this afternoon, but my hands are still chewed up from that 5 rounds of 25 on Thursday.

Have a great Sunday. See everyone tomorrow.

kudos to mike for pushing me to do cindy as rx'd rather then the jumping pull-ups i did on my first cindy.

so i can say the magic words;

AS RX'D
16 rounds plus 1 pull-up. only 3 1/2 rounds less then jumping cindy last time. goal next cindy; 20. i did do most pull-ups underhand but i beleive those are considered official too.

thanks Mike!

Cindy: 15 Rounds + 5 PU's

Nice work, Mike!
(Underhand is absolutely official.)

hey Hari great work yourself. not sure if you picked up from my q&a post but i called doing rx'd pull-ups during WODs 'Hari Style' ;)

Guys, today marks my last day of monthly Black Box membership until November. About 1.5 months ago, my Mary was at 5 rounds + 5 hspu + 10 pistols and today I made 10 rounds + 5 hspu (thanks, Kip!). I've also got 2 tears apiece on both hands, a pair of tailbone/butt scabs from Annie and a blister on my big toe from Fight Club, so overall it was a pretty good week.

Hopefully, I won't be too much of a stranger and I'll come in for drop-in classes and stay in the loop of any other extra-curricular activities, but I'll leave you with this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17cmBnziQw4

If any of you need to reach me for whatever, I'll try to stay on the boards, but here's my email:
jeff_c_yan at hotmail
(Moon, fill me in on the Crash Mansion stuff going on tonight.)

Btw, are there any Hi-Fi plans tonight? I've got a playoff game tonight, but I'm considering stopping by if it doesn't go on too late.

hey jeff awesome n even doing mary and i'lll miss you on the mitts at fightclub...

Thanks, Michael.

16 rounds of Cindy (ok actually 15 rounds plus 5 pulls, 10 push, 13 squats) so I rounded up. Well, at least my left hand gets to share in the punishment this time around. Finally a PR for me!!! Pretty excited about that.

Great job to everyone who was at the box today. All really kicked much ass!!!!

13 rounds and five jumping pullups and subbed 1/2 girlie pushups. Those pushups are killer. I need some serious advice on how to be able to do more than 10 regular ones. Jumping pullups were pretty easy so with Hari as my motivator I am hoping to get one real one someday soon! Thanks Hari as always.

Mike thanks so much-u were so helpful and it was a great time. As always-great job everyone!

Oh how I love Cindy! 16 rounds with jumping pull ups and knees down push ups. A great way to start the day!

Michelle,

Your welcome.

I'm sure you are much closer to a pullup than you think. I notice when you try to pull yourself up, you move away from the bar. (Perhaps you're leaning back because your worried about banging your head on the bar?)

I suggest you try going closer to straight up. Imagine how much more work it would be to press a given weight up to a point six inches in front of or behind your head, instead of directly over head.

(The same principle is at work when you do dips. You want to keep your hands close to your body so you apply force straight up and down.)

I think my theory might also explain why you're so good on negatives; there, your motion is much closer to perfectly vertical.

Finally, note that what I'm saying is not applicable when you are kipping. When you kip, you want to end up with your body in front of the bar at the bottom and behind the bar at the top.

Here are some pictures of the Workout!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lostmymind/sets/72157600719344324/

This is the video I was talking about earlier, but i was mistaken, it was 34 rounds of cindy not 43.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAuP9Llm2hE

thanks hari-I am going to try tomorrow!

Mary as rx'd
8 rounds + 5 HP+ 10 pistols
First time with Mary

Great job today everyone. Jeff way to go with 10 plus rounds on Mary! We will miss you. See you soon.

34 rounds is much more realistic but still insane compared to 43. Thanks for the pics and vid alex.

CFHQ

wow Today's wod scares me.

on the video:
jui-jitsu situps?? yikes...
I guess this is where the 'it doesn't have to look cool to be cool' statement comes into play.

whats with the music on these videos!

also for the Portland Certification in September, Im already paid up but sorta messed up my payment increments, so that I ended up coming in $50 short, Deana at CFHQ says:

"Hi Juan,
Quite a few people have been doing that all of a sudden, so I think we need to figure something out to help folks with their payments. :-) It would work best for us if you pay another $100 online and then pay the final $50 at the certification."

18 Apr 07 - 8 rounds + 1 pullup (pullups done w/ band)
08 Jul 07 - 11 rounds + 5 pullups + 8 pushups. (no band on pullups)
xx Oct 07 - 14. :)

Moon that is amazing!

Jeff,

We'll miss you. See you in November.

We'll definitely miss you, Jeff. Stay in touch.