Presenting... CrossFit Charlottesville!!

It's official - the CrossFit Cville affiliate application has been approved. Big shout out to Kyle Redinger for working to get this off the ground and bring a true CF box to Central VA. Reply to Kyle's email if you're interested in getting involved with getting the gym up and running.

Sunday's workout consisted of a deadlift workshop with an emphasis on efficient, safe mechanics (with technique tailored to fit each individual's anthropometry - there's some great pics/explanations of this topic in Starting Strength). Thanks to Forney and Chadron for the instruction!

I really like Cory's proposition for a local CF competition; everyone post thoughts on this to comments. Might be hard to find time with finals and graduation coming up, but for those staying in Cville perhaps we could do it in the latter half of May? I'll send out an email about a group workout for this Sunday soon... keep training hard everyone.

Tug and Total

Tuggernauts Pull!

Big weekend for the UVA CF community! First, the tug o' war team consisting of Forney, Kyle, Ben, Armando, Sean, Fraser, Robby, and myself (see picture above) took first place in the all-male category at Beta Theta Pi's philanthropy. Superior pulling mechanics, conditioning, and mental toughness - all heavily based in our CrossFit training - allowed us to pull out a tough win over a significantly bigger team in the final match. Thanks to Forney for putting the team together and to Chris for his decisive coaching. Also, check out this sweet fb album that Kyle put together; thanks Amy for taking the pictures!

Today we had a great turnout, including many new faces, at the group workout. We spent some very productive time going over squat technique, and then got in the power rack to work up to 1RM back squats. After that, Armando and I stuck around and finished out a complete CFT. Congrats to Armando on pulling a big deadlift PR en route to an overall CFT PR. Check out some pics from today below...













(Left) Forney showing some serious hip drive... (Right) Armando's DL PR (Notice the perfect balance of technique and intensity; he max's out right at the point of slight technical breakdown... but only slight. Lighter and he wouldn't be at a true max. Heavier and his back would round into full flexion.)