CrossFit Brisbane

“Were it my cue to fight, I should have known it without a prompter.”
-  William Shakespeare, Othello,

“Five & Dime”

5 rounds for time:- 

5 Clean & Jerk (60kg)
10 Pullups
5 Box jumps
10 KB Swings (24kg)
5 ring dips

scale as required.

Early group - Strength Session

Push Press 5×5
Clean Pulls  5×5
Strict Chinups, 6 sets for max reps

record finishing weight for the push press and clean pulls
record reps for all 6 sets of pullups

Later Group - CrossFit Total

Squat
Press
Deadlift

Sum of 1 rep max for all three lifts, three attempts.

“CrossFit, n. The fitness equivalent to the Taliban, or Mujahideen. CrossFit, like the Taliban, are intolerant of other fitness “faiths,” but they don’t require beards or turbans. Both groups struggle against infidels, but CrossFit has named their struggle “Nancy” and give the devotee 300 points for completing it.”

This was a description of CrossFit that appeared on T-Nation, it made me chuckle.

4 rounds for time:-

Row 500m
24 kg KB Swing, 20 reps
40kg Push Jerk, 10 reps

“When a warrior fights not for himself, but for his brothers, when his most passionately sought goal is neither glory nor his own life’s preservation, but to spend his substance for them, his comrades, not to abandon them, not to prove unworthy of them, then his heart truly has achieved contempt for death, and with that he transcends himself and his actions touch the sublime.”

- From “Gates of Fire; the battle of Thermopylae” by Steven Pressfield