New CFC Member in the Spotlight: JJ

20120524-180857.jpg

JJ

I am: Trying to perfect my own humanity; I get a little better at it every day.

What kind of CrossFitter are you? Competitive; once you stop competing you lose!!

What is your favorite color? Yellow, because I like bananas.

If you won the lottery, what would you do with it? Knit a nice money suit and wear it all around town.

What kind dinosaur would you have as a pet? None; big poops.

What was the best and worst thing about being a kid? I grew up in the 80′s so Toto’s Africa and that we wouldn’t see 30 because AIDS was gonna kill us all.

How do you de-stress? Beer and not that lite crap full octane!!

CrossFit Caliber is: Like Cheers…with rubber weights and medicine balls

In one word, CrossFit is: Intense

Advice for new CrossFitters: It doesn’t get easier, it just sucks less.


Weighted Pull-ups

20120524-182112.jpg

Nothing like having your instructor do Burpees with you.

Warm up with 5 rounds of:
100 meter run
rest 60 seconds

Dynamic stretching

WOD:

Weighted pull-ups 2-2-2-2-2-2-2 reps


Balls and Ropes

20120524-061530.jpg

Warm up with Thrusters
Burgener Warm-up

WOD:

Three rounds for time of:
50 Double-unders
40 Sit-ups
30 Medicine ball cleans, 20 pound ball
20 Pull-ups
10 Handstand push-ups


We’ve almost reached our goal for CrossFit for Hope!

As of today, we have raised $725!!! That is awesome, and show time is almost here! Our “CrossFit for Hope” will take place at CrossFit Caliber on June 9 from 9 am to 11 am. If you want to participate, you must register on the CrossFit for Hope website:

We now have eight people registered, and we can use a few more if you dare to take on “Hope”. I know “Hope” sucks. I have done it and I like to forget about it as soon as I am reminded of it. But think of it this way, you are doing it for children who are suffering way more than what you would experience on 17 minutes of “Hope”. You are doing it for terminally ill kids and they will appreciate you for it.
The normal Free Intro Classes will be cancelled on June 9, so only those who register on the CrossFit for Hope website can participate. If you do register, make sure that you indicate that you are with CrossFit Caliber so that any donations you get will be considered as part of CFC’s collective fund raising efforts.
Whether or not you are working out that day, please make a donation. If each of us contributed $5 it would make a world of difference. Then come out to CFC, bring your friends and family to watch us tear through “Hope”. It’s going to be one terrible WOD!

Get Tactical

20120523-045305.jpg

Warm-up with box jumps
Dynamic stretching

WOD:

For time:
400 meter weighted run 40/20
30 Hand Release Push-ups
30 Ground to Overhead 40/20
30 Sit-ups
Army crawl 18 feet
30 Lateral Burpees


Overhead Squat

20120521-212928.jpg

Warm up with 200 meter weighted run
CF Warm-up, 3 rounds

WOD:

Overhead Squat 1-1-1-1-1-1-1 reps


“Jag 28″

20120520-191947.jpg

CrossFit Caliber at the CrossFit Games North Central Regional Competition.

Warm up with Overhead Squats
General warm-up

WOD:

“Jag 28″

For time:
Run 800 meters
28 Kettlebell swings, 2 pood
28 Strict Pull-ups
28 Kettlebell clean and jerk, 2 pood each
28 Strict Pull-ups
Run 800 meters

U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Mark Forester, 29, of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, assigned to the 21st Special Tactics Squadron, based in Pope Air Force Base, North Carolina, died on September 29, 2010, while conducting combat operations in Uruzgan province, Afghanistan. He is survived by his parents Ray and Pat, and siblings Terri, David, Joseph and Thad.

Courtesy of crossfit.com.