29
May
You should scale these three workouts to your ability level: choose the two-minute, three-minute, four-minute, or the full five-minute version. To tally your ’score,’ if you choose the ‘two-minute’ version, you must spend a cumulative total of 120 seconds in a handstand. Begin the clock when you begin the handstand, clock runs continuously; but only [...]
18
May
You’ll only travel 150 meters, but it will be a beautiful journey.
5 rounds,
10 meters of beck’s burpees*
10 meters of walking lunges
10 meters of bear crawl
For Time.
*Beck’s burpees: like a normal burpee, but instead of jumping straight up, you jump forward — as far as you can. It’s a burpee with a standing broadjump. If [...]
16
May
I’m going to open the hood on basic diabetes management so you can see the nuts and bolts of how a type 1 diabetic uses blood glucose measurement and insulin injections to manage their blood sugar.
This explanation of diabetes and insulin therapy covers the basics of a Diabetic’s How To:
Establishing a basal rate of [...]
11
May
For some time we’ve toyed with the idea of posting a few versions of the same workout, at differing levels of difficulty. The decision is complicated, and has many disadvantages. But I’m guessing we’ll experiment with this in the future; so below you’ll find two workouts, and two versions of each.
10
May
CrossFit could scare you because we do tons of pull-ups …and you can’t do one.
Being intimidated is unjustified: CrossFitters include many people who could not do a pull-up when they began. The pull-up is easily teachable and achievable — you can begin right here, right now.
The following will give you a schedule consisting [...]
03
May
3 rounds of:
30 slalom jumps
30 sit-ups
30 supermans
For Time.
Supermans (laying on stomach, arch your back to raise your chest off the floor) can be substituted with back extensions on a roman chair or swiss ball (with feet anchored somehow), or with Good Mornings.
For an easier version, scale to 20 reps of each exercise, but remain at [...]