Push Jerk 1rm
then…
Karen
For time
150 wall ball shots 20/10
then…
Isabel
for time
30 Snatches 135/95
Aaron Bell and Senator Brett
HEY GUYS!!! We plan on doing the Crossfit Football Total Today (Friday) from about 12pm-2pm, It takes a while if you do it right, about 1.5-2 hours if you do it the right way. This is not a class, this will be a few of us getting together to lift some massive weights, er…well…Aaron Bell will be. But if any of you would like to join in on the workout you are more than welcome to join us.
For those of you that do not know, the CFFB Total is…
CF Football Total
Power Clean 1 Rep
Squat 1 Rep
Bench 1 Rep
Deadlift 1 Rep
*Perform a single max effort for the lifts listed above.
*After warm-ups, 3 attempts are allowed.
*Total must be done in the specified order.
*Combine all 4 lifts to create CF Football Total
Post total to comments.
Here are some fun articles about lifting heavy weights, you dont need to read them all, but there is some good stuff in here 🙂 Heavy Lifting (heavy being a relative term, what is heavy to me and you may not be heavy to Aaron bell, so on and so forth) But stepping up to the bar, and lifting, squatting, or pressing with every single ounce of effort you have in your body and lifting your true one rep max, is a great feeling and can be very zen-like. A lot of people go through life not having a clue what their body is capable of. Over the next few weeks we will make sure you can all tell me your 1 rep max for the major lifts, then we will watch them go up.
Benefits of Olympic weightlifting
10 reasons weight does not bulk up the female athlete
SOME GREAT TALK TO ME JOHNNY ARTICLES
weight gain and female athletes
raw-vegan v.s. hunter gatherer
Some other fun stuff i enjoy
“Strong people are harder to kill than weak people and more useful in general“- Mark Rippetoe
Crossfit South Bend blog 
The articles about women (not bulking & weight gain)is a topic that I struggle to understand b/c of my own personal experience. I would love for someone to explain to me why I was the exception to the norm. (Not bashing CF in the least). I experienced the changes early on with my body changing and becoming more muscular. I totally embraced it from the start. My BF % was low but yet if I didn’t keep my diet dialed in tight I was on the verge of not being able to fit into my jeans, shorts, etc. I would love to be one of the girls who went down in size but I wasn’t. I had to get rid of some jeans, shorts, etc. b/c of muscle gain not b/c of loss in size. Here I am now 13#’s down and fitting back into those clothes that I couldn’t before b/c I dropped doing anything lower body. I would love to have the lower body strength back again but I don’t know if I am willing to “pay the price”. Any other gals experience this?
it looks like I’m making a funny face and Brett is laughing at me, which totally could have happened. Or I was trying to eat as much pork as I could before anyone saw me and Brett caught me
Both are very likely situations, lol
Cindy, I don’t really have a real stance on this subject, as of yet, since I’m really new to lifting and don’t know how my body will react.
But…I kinda of look forward to hopefully putting on some muscle mass (esp. in my legs).
Abby, awesome job today! Keep it up and the muscle mass will come. Hope you enjoyed breakfast! 🙂
Abby – we could trade legs ;).
Sorry, Cindy! I get them first 🙂
I have to say me and Karen talked about legs earlier.
I noticed that the crossfit girls’ legs are not very lean/fit looking why is that?
We squat,jump,run…
I lost 25# doing cf intitally and at 4 months of doing cf was my prime,now I am not changing anymore it seems.
WOW, really girls?!!?!? here is a picture of my absolute favorite girl crossfiter Miranda Oldroyd
what doesn’t look lean about her?
how about heather bergeron ( again Lean)
My list could go on, I have to say diet is a HUGE part of getting lean, yes we work on our legs so yes we are building muscles in them, this is where diet comes in if you eat crap while building muscle that takes away from being lean, if you build muscle and eat clean you look lean.
if you show up to the gym, work hard, eat right, you will change, it is inevitable. to me strength is beauty. to each there own, my personal goal is to look as good as miranda one day!
Fine but I am taking LB’s bubblicious butt and Chris’ arms :-*
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Those chicks are hot Chelssie and you’re on your way to look like them
I am too late to catch up to them when I was you age I did step aerobics and jazzercise and spinning,never lifted weights.
I haven’t seen a crossfit girl in person here in Indiana unless we throw a wig on Brandon and call her Brianna ?
Those abs are so ripped…nice to look at
THose abs of the girls in the picture Chelssie added is what I was referring to…
Darn, I couldn’t open the pictures. Oh well . . . I have seen a change in my legs, but not as dramatic as my upper body. Figuring there was a lot of extra body fat on them than up top. Same with my mid-section. Not discouraged! Liking the changes. Looking forward to more.
Mel, trying to picture Brandon in a wig. Not happening 🙂
Sorry Mel, but I’m a Crossfit girl and so is every other woman in the gym! I do not feel a particular look defines one as a crossfitter.
I want to be the best me and not like anyone else. I embrace my strong legs and curves. I will probably never look like that, not because I couldn’t, but because I love bad food too much, lol!
It boils down to diet mostly, like Chels said.
So the chocolate shake fudge is not helping my legs?
Hmmm…all this talk about diet is making me hungry.
I could go for some cheese fries from the Bucket, right about now. With a nice cold beer. 😉
No one will ever take my processed-cheese-food-product away from me! hehehe
Chelssie – Yes I have taken notice of Miranda O. and say to myself finally a real role model. Diet yes is crucial but as I said my diet was dialed in tight doing zone at the time and I was always pushing it if I wavered in the least of fitting my legs into my jeans or shorts. What would be wonderful is if clothing designers would pull their heads out of their rears and start designing pants and shorts that fit women that have curves.
I agree but I don’t wanna shop at Lane Bryant or Torrid they cost alot of money plus that would again mean I am still a chubby girl.
The best jeans are from the GAP – long and lean or Levi’s .Old Navy has some weird fitting jeans.
Good luck!