Comments on: Friday, December 4, 2009

By: Estelle Kinder

Estelle Kinder — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 13:41:55 +0000

Learning bodybuilding from the broscience is like learning about sex from pornos. You might get the basic idea, but you’ll miss a lot, and get some strange ideas. Better to talk to someone who’s done it, and done it well.

By: CrossFit Austin | South Austin’s Favorite Spot for CrossFit » WOD 12/10

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 05:10:36 +0000

[...] To chalk or not to chalk, is this the question? [...]

By: CJ Martin

CJ Martin — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 04:11:15 +0000

Courtland,
I am glad we have chalk.

By: courtland

courtland — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 04:07:39 +0000

Rippetoe says that if your gym doesn’t have or allow chalk, you should consider another gym.

By: M

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 06:14:43 +0000

It was great to see so many Invictus faces in the photos from the McFlurry WOD today! You guys are awesome!!

By: ET

ET — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 04:29:38 +0000

For those of you who don’t know Miguel AKA McFlurry, his face may actually be familiar to you, he is the third person from the left on the Invictus “Building Communities” photograph. Hope to see you there.

By: lizzle

lizzle — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 18:24:34 +0000

I am so glad they are doing the McFlurry WOD! I did it in the Bay Area last year and it took my breath away when I drove up to the Diablo XFit and the earlier class was doing McFlurry.
Word on wrist bands. I have sweaty hands and forearms and I have come to depend on my wrist bands.
Perfect combo- light chalk dust on hands and wrists, seal it with a wrist band.

By: joe

joe — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 15:30:36 +0000

We are planning on going to the Mcflurry wod at CFSD on Saturday. Here is a video of last years Wod http://media.crossfit.com/cf-video/CrossFitByOverload_McFlurry.mov It is quite moving and really captures the crossfit community. Hope to see you there.

By: Ken from NIMITZ

Ken from NIMITZ — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 15:28:25 +0000

Without generous use of chalk, how am I going to make that paste I used to eat in kindergarten?

Great post Mike…I am one of the usual suspects that depended upon chalk to get through any WOD with pulling exercises for the main reason that it helped me maintain my grip, and would allow me to complete more consecutive pull-ups or other exercise without loosing my grip. I know a big part of this is based on grip strength and that is something I have been working on since starting CF, now over 2 yrs ago. However, in my experience you could have vice grips for hands but if there is enough moisture on your hands it will be difficult to maintain a descent grip for pull-ups let alone a heavy DL, snatch, or power clean.

I have been on the no-chalk WODs for the past 4 months since there isn’t an abundance of chalk out here on the ship which has really helped improve my grip strength. Carrying a 55lb KB the length of the NIMITZ, walking from my stateroom to the gym doesn’t hurt either.

Hope everyone there is doing well. Hello to CJ, Calvin, Snax, Dani and all the hard core CFI crossfitters. Take care-

By: M

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 13:25:55 +0000

I know a lot of chalk monsters!