I think we can all agree that this homebound self-isolation thing would be tremendously harder if the weather weren’t so wonderful and the parks so plentiful here on Vancouver’s West Side. Many members took advantage of the sunshine to do their Zoom WOD – or at least the running portion – outside. Boxers [...]
While classes worked their way through improvised home versions of the triple under-GHD sit up-deadlift triplet, Brick was getting it done in his backyard. Check out his innovative use of a bucket full of sand! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssMZqUAoTCo&feature=youtu.be Apparently Empower members don't like scary movies (6 votes) though 2 appreciated Get Out and there was [...]
Remember in January 2019 when CrossFit.com started posting all those pictures of older athletes doing scaled versions of the WOD with water jug deadlifts and L-Sits on a retro recliner? Many questioned Coach Glassman’s sanity then but 15 months later and those pictures and videos seem spookily prophetic. These days we’re all lifting jugs [...]
Thanks to all the dancing queens who stopped by to join us Saturday night for some foolish dancing. We hope we provided a bit of levity and a few chuckles for your weekend. Next Saturday 5pm we’ll be hosting Empower Trivia Night. If you have some quality CrossFit trivia, especially trivia related [...]
In this Edition: 1. Greetings 2. Movements of the Week 3. Baseline Warm-Up and Two Squatting WODs FT 4. SD Tip 1: Shopping Greetings readers! How is everyone doing out there? I so miss you all! My apologies for being so slow to the draw with an alternative to our Athletics class. I was emotionally thrown for a [...]
In preparation for tonight's Fool's Day dance party we asked group class members if they'd describe themselves as a wall flower or dancing queen. The 8am was 100% self reported wall flowers but the 10am crew (folks who appreciate a bit of a weekend sleep in) were 5o/50. It should be noted that most wall [...]
The 20 in 2020 challenge was inspired by Fierce’s tremendous 2019 season which saw one of the most heroic athletic performances to which I’ve been witness in over 40 years of competitive athletics. Despite being pregnant for 9/12 months in 2019 and delivering her 4th child in November 2019, Fierce managed to complete every single [...]
The same obstacles that some people stumble and trip over are the springboards others use to leap ahead. Life just dropped a great big stumbling block in our way and it is a great opportunity to examine how you respond to obstacles and a chance to practice optimizing your response. Don’t deny your 7 [...]
The old timers know exactly what I’m talking about though you young lifters may be confused. Read to the end if you wish to be enlightened. Thanks to Sprite for today’s April Fool’s Day WOD inspiration. Everyone had a blast. Especially HHH who got to choose between 240 lunges or using her unabbreviated [...]
Happy April 1st. I was really tempted to program the KFC WOD for all of you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S38nqi4S4mk But Sprite came up with a better idea: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQKzk0EyssI&feature=youtu.be Use your CrossFit name to create your unique WOD. Complete 20 of each movement used to spell your name. A = Push Ups B = HSPU [...]
