VERSUS Aftermath

The VERSUS crew!

Event 1: Weightlifting Total
Event 2: Back, Back, Forth, and Forth
Event 3: The RINGer
Event 4: Conga Line Dirty Thirty

FCF is the winner of the inaugural inter-gym throwdown. Next one up in October!

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WOD for Skills Week Monday 8/12

STRENGTH

back squat 3x5

then

every minute on the minute for 10 minutes: 3 hang snatches

ACCESSORIES

3 rounds:
10 hanging leg raise
10 reverse hyper
ME Paloff Press, each side

Post results to whiteboard/comments/Cody.
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Douglas' Audacious, Utopian Goal: Shift a Whole Industry - Seattle Times (via Sacha P)

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Colin: 400 WODs

What an efficient journal. What an awesome achievement. We're starting something special for benchmarks like these.

How many workouts have you done at FCF?

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WOD

establish within 20 minutes:
floor press 3RM

then

3-2-1 minutes for max reps:
double under
situps

Post results to whiteboard!

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Nike's Dimpled Tracksuits Could Help Athletes Shatter World Records at This Summer's Olympics - Gizmodo

Will you be watching this summer's Olympics with a newfound respect for sports like weightlifting, gymnastics (still rings), and the Omnium (cycling)?

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Also: Arena Proposal is Game-Changer That Makes Seattle Truly Major League - Seattle Times

Just when Shawn Kemp and Jason Reid do an in-store signing of Sonicsgate today at the downtown Costco, this news comes. Hope is back. Don't let us down, Chris.

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CrossFit in the Seattle Times

The northwest represent!

CrossFit becomes an international fitness phenom with its brutal online workouts

By Maureen O'Hagan

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And there's Andrew Bueno. He recently opened his own CrossFit affiliate gym on Capitol Hill, but he was a personal trainer at Gold's Gym when he fell in love with it. Setting out to lure new clients, he began using his lunch breaks as a sort of demonstration project.

"I would do my CrossFit workout to almost show off. It was almost like, drop your jaw in amazement as I do these kettlebell swings," he recalls. "I would start grunting. You're seeing this amazing sweat going on. Then I'm lying on the ground, steaming, gasping for air.

"Some people were like, 'That looks brutal. Can I try?' "

CROSSFIT, IT should be clear by now, can be habit-forming. Even though the WODs usually take less than 20 minutes, there is a tendency for mission-creep. Afficionados spend hours studying the Web site. They post their WOD stats and compete — virtually — with other users.

Read the rest of the article here.

Be sure to leave some comments on the online article. Print edition comes out this Sunday! Pick some up and start showing them off to everyone.