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CrossFit Workout 2-23-17

Feb 23rd, 2017

Today is a recovery and pre-habilitation day to get ready for the Open tomorrow night.

WOD:

5 Rounds:

Spiderman Walk
Crab Walk
Bear Crawl
Ape Hop

20 Minutes for Quality:

60 second single unders
10/arm light overhead press
20 second active hang
5/direction side lunge

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How to Look better in the mirror

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Admittedly, that title is total click bait. How to look better in the mirror…can anything be more of what you expect from a gym? Probably not. Let me go a different, direction, though, than is expected. “Looking better” (whatever that actually means) doesn’t begin in a gym or in the kitchen – it begins with … more »

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