July 15th, you, Leo and my Brother will all battle the spartans and do the full 300 workout.

Gives you 2 more months to train.

Better stop slacking off and get in 3 times a week

Crazy!

I see how a lot of them swing when doing pull ups for a better momentum.

Now.. if I could will myself to do something like that!!

Hi, Stephen.

I faved you from the above website post.
But am exploring your blog.
Just a note, on the health and weight issue.Check out Candida Syndrome.
You might be surprised.
Once you got it, you have it for life, causes much of the overweight problems everywhere.
But once you manage to get it under control, takes as much discipline as what you discussed earlier, you’ll feel and look a lot better.

I’m not selling anything here, just trying to find fans of King Tut to get interested in my novels about him.
René

Damn, I’m tired just from watching that! Thats one hell of a workout!

I never thought anybody would go through these much of pain…
Any way it really paid isn’t it?

I am lucky to have the energy to get to my car in the morning, never mind work out. Although my new GF is dragging my on all these hikes and walks so I may just get used to it

I thought some of the abs looked airbrushed in 300….BWAHAHA

Anyway, does anyone make sure you are using proper form when doing these workouts??

On their main site, they have video clips showing you the correct way / wrong way of doing the different workouts.

As for the proper form, that’s why Crossfit Vancouver makes you do personal training sessions before you can get into group classes to ensure that you are able to perform the basic functional movements safely and in alignment.

As for a lot of the Cross fit videos you see, the workouts are meant to push your boundaries (each session you do a warm-up and technique where the focus is purely on form, building strength, flexibility and stamina and understanding the movements and developing that muscle memory (of course these are never video tapped because they are not as exciting to watch), the workouts themselves at the end of each session are only about 15 minutes long and do push your personal boundaries-each workout pushes them in a slightly different way) so you do see form start to degrade, however that is where there is a fine line that the coaches watch carefully to ensure you don’t cross. You want to push your limits (which means form will suffer to a certain extent), but you don’t want to put yourself in a position where you are going to get injuries. So just be careful if you try any of the workouts on your own.

-”swinging” on the pull-ups to gain momentum is intentional. It’s called kipping and turns an isolation movement (static pull-ups) into a full body functional movement (kipping pull-ups) were you can do more work in less time (the whole goal of crossfit). But just ask Stephen and Leo, its actually harder than it looks to master (its more of a thrusting of the hips than a swinging of the feet and ideally you want to keep full control of your body by tightening the abs and utilizing all of your stabilization muscles throughout the movement) but once you master it, it’s great at toning the body and becomes a pretty efficient use of your time-I can no do 42 in a row, and there is another girl in our gym who just did 50 in a row. Pretty productive use of a minute.

I read an article on http://www.askmen.com how man should rely more on daily sports and routine for maintaining their physique and stamina, rather than building muscles that they don’t need. I am not a fan of that website or articles on there, but hey..he raised a good point.

However, good physique really helps in one very basic thing, or as it seems - attracting babes. So..it’s worth the effort, init!!!

If you are able to do it before the summer ends, please have someone take a video of it.

Doesn’t the height of your kick have to come up to their chest in the first place?