There is always a danger when writing your own workouts that something you don’t anticipate will come back to bite you. I was hoping this workout would be in the low to mid 20-minute range for most of us. But you’re never sure if the first set of relatively heavy deadlifts will have a carry-over effect on later rounds, or if the run will gas you too much to safely lift the bar. Nothing to worry about today. I thought this was a well-balanced challenging workout that didn’t get bogged down in any particular area.

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Josh is one of the rare benchmark workouts that doesn’t murder you for half an hour or more. Rare is the workout that is challenging and short. Despite the challenge, I happen to think that Josh is one of the few workouts that look worse on the board. I expect that I’m in the minority here.

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Admit it, that was harder than you expected. And fun too. To answer one of the most common questions I heard today, Joseph did not do this week’s programing. One intention today was to give you a taste of what Parkour is like. For the first week of each month, Parkout is free to Crossfitters. Try it, it’s a lot of fun.

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If you haven’t heard the news yet Amy had her baby Tuesday morning at 2:10.  Selden Richard Nielsen weighed in at 8 pounds 12 ounces and was 20 inches long.  That kid is going to be huge when he grows up.  Congrats Jan and Amy, can’t wait to meet him.  I think pictures are in order, and I’m sure Lisa is already drooling at the opportunity for a photo session with the little guy. My original idea for today was [...]

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I was so excited when we got all of the new benches, it was like Christmas.  Except I don’t remember getting presents that hurt.  I like the bench in met-cons, and now that we have four of them you can expect to see them come up more often.  I tried this workout last Thursday and my shoulders are just today fully recovered from the workout.  If you didn’t take the time to stretch after all those failure sets it’s going [...]

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