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Beast River Fitness – WOD

AM Outdoor WODs + Open Gym Sessions

DAILY MINDSET
“Adversity causes some to break. For others, it breaks records.”

Adversity can really, really hurt. Let’s not create an illusion that it’s all sunshine and rainbows. It will try our values, test our patience, and challenge who we are as human beings. It’s no warm cup of cocoa on a winter morning.

But a warm cup of cocoa doesn’t make us better. A picture perfect day doesn’t make us better. We learn when we make mistakes. When we miss, trip up, face plant, and get caught off guard. At our very basic biological level, this is how we adapt. It’s encoded in us… and it’s seriously like a secret sleeping super power.

That is, of course, if we them it our advantage. The nature of a mistake is not to tell us we suck. That we failed. That we’re not good enough. The nature of a mistake is to educate us. To give us the ammunition we need to become better. To take the challenge to earn greatness, out of something that once was not.

Adversity is not in the way to greatness.
Adversity is the way the way to greatness.
This is the championship mindset.

Metcon

1: Metcon (Time)

Outdoor WOD

10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1:

Odd Object Squat Cleans

Before Each Round:

200 Meter Run

Warm-up

0: Warm-up (No Measure)

Suggested timeline for today’s suggested workout 🙂 :

0-15: Warm-Up

15-35: Squat Snatches

35-45: Mini Burner

30 Seconds Each

Active Samson

PVC Overhead Squats

Push-up to Down Dog

PVC Hollow Hold

Lateral Squats

PVC Arch Hold

Overhead Squat Biased Barbell Warmup

5 Good Mornings

5 Back Squats

5 Elbow Rotations

5 Snatch Grip Behind the Neck Presses

5 Snatch Grip Romanian Deadlifts

5 Overhead Squats

Strength

1: Hang Snatch (Squat, 7×1 @ 75-85%, perfect form )

Metcon

2: Metcon (Time)

9-6-3

Overhead Squat 135/95

Burpees over the barbell

GO FAST!

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“Don’t tell me who you are. Tell me what you are.”

When we are asked “who” we are, we default to our past. We define ourselves by our resumes. Although our past may give us insight of where we’ve been, it cannot be what defines us… for it’s the past.

When the question however asks “what” we are, we tend to give a different answer. We describe who we really are. It’s one of character, values and beliefs.

Will we be defined by who we’ve been in the past, or by what we stand for today? Let character be our loudest statement.

Metcon

Metcon (Time)

~ Meet at track ~

Thanksgiving – “12/26/20”

12 Burpees

26 Alt. Jump Lunges

20 Bear Crawl (yrds out and back)

_____

“12/26/20”

200 Run

“12/26/20”

400 Run

“12/26/20”

800 Run

“12/26/20”

400 Run

“12/26/20”

200 Run

_____

CASH-OUT

3 RNDS

12 V-up

26 Bicycles

20 Hollow Rocks

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Beast River Fitness – WOD

Open Gym + Outdoor WOD Day

Today has TWO workouts posted.
-Workout #1 is the outdoor WOD that is an outdoor class. The outdoor class meets at the gym.
-Workout #2 is a suggested indoor workout for open gym.

DAILY MINDSET
“Don’t look for the third thing.” – Marcus Aurelius

Marcus Aurelius breaks down a good deed into two positive results:

You did good
You helped another
The first positive result is that you did good. Every good deed is a vote towards ourselves becoming better human beings. The second is that your actions helped another. Whether big or small, you’ve benefitted another human being today.

There is a “third thing” that one can seek, and it was Marcus strongly speaks against: credit.

When one contributes with a good deed, doing right by oneself, and doing rigiht by another, is enough. The desire to receive praise for such an action is the pitfall he warns against. To go around expecting thanks is what he deems as greedy, which can trickle into other areas of life.

Metcon

1: Metcon (Time)

Outdoor WOD Part 1:

3 Rounds x AMRAP 4:

21 Shuttle Runs (10 Meters)

21 Alternating Weighted Object Snatches

21 Weighted Object-Facing Burpees

Rest 4 Minutes Between

Post slowest round to time

Warm-up

0: Warm-up (No Measure)

Suggested timeline for today’s suggested workout 🙂 :

0-12: CFWU (cut short to allow time for body armor)

12-30: G-EMOM 1

30-45: Body Armor

1: The CrossFit Warm-up (No Measure)

3 rounds of 10-15 reps of:
Samson Stretch (15-30 seconds)
Overhead Squat with PVC
Sit-ups
Back-extensions
Pull-ups
Dips
Subs:

30s Archold for back extensions

Ring Rows for Pullups if needed

HR Pushups for Dips

Gymnastics

2: Gymnastics EMOM 2 (No Measure)

12m EMOM

A) 10 Strict Ring Dips

B) 5xTripod to Headstand

C) 45s hold in air squat

B) pike or straddle to head stand. Slow and controlled pike to floor for negative

C) try to squat with feet progressively closer together each round. Heels down.

Metcon

3: Metcon (Time)

40 Double Unders

20 Toes to bar

30 D/Us

15 T2B

20 D/Us

10 T2B

10 D/Us

5 T2B

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Beast River Fitness – WOD

Today has TWO workouts posted.
-Workout #1 is the outdoor TRACK WOD that is an outdoor class. The outdoor class meets at the East River Park Track.
-Workout #2 is a suggested indoor workout for open gym.

DAILY MINDSET
“You make a living with what you get. You make a life with what you give.” – Winston Churchill

Think back to a time in your life when you came in clutch for someone. One where your actions made a significant impact on someone’s life. Maybe it was a time where you showed up for a friend in a time of need. But you didn’t just show up… you went above and beyond. Not because of some expected return or alterior motive, but because you believed it was the right thing to do. You genuinely cared.

Think back to that day, and how that made you feel when you saw your impact. Think back to how it felt to know you made a difference. It felt good, didn’t it. Really, damn, good.

Science has shown us that one of the most powerful emotions we can feel, via serotonin, is released in mass at these moments. But what is even more interesting, is that it’s literally contagious. Think back to the last time you saw someone else doing something generous. Maybe it was as simple as holding the door open at the store for an elderly customer. Think back to that… how did you feel, witnessing that? Did it make you feel, more generous?

If generosity is contagious, it just needs to be started.
Let it be us.
Be the change we want to see in this world.

Metcon

1: Metcon (Time)

4 x 800m with a partner.

Rest 3 minutes between efforts.

Post slowest 800m to time.
Meeting Location:

-East River Park Track 🏃‍♂️

Equipment Required:

-None!

Warm-up

0: Warm-up (No Measure)

Suggested timeline for today’s suggested workout 🙂 :

0-15: Warm-Up

15-30: Deadlifts

35-45: Burner

1 Round

1 Minute Row

1 Minute Down Dog

1 Minute Box Step-ups

1 Minute Kettlebell Deadlifts (30 Seconds Each Side)

Barbell Warmup

5 Good Mornings

5 Back Squats

5 Elbow Rotations

5 Strict Press & Reach

5 Romanian Deadlifts

5 Front Squats

Strength

1: Deadlift (Banded, 4×7 LIGHT weight)

-Let’s add a little variety with banded today for more advanced athletes.

-Drape a green or blue band over your barbell, center the band, and stand in the center of the band.

-Newer athletes should focus on just improving deadlift technique.

-Perfect form today, go for overall volume not highest weight for one set.

Metcon

2: Metcon (AMRAP – Rounds and Reps)

6m AMRAP;

6 Strict Chin Ups

12 HR Push Ups

24 Jumping Alternating Lunges

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Beast River Fitness – WOD

Open Gym + Outdoor WOD

DAILY MINDSET
“Give more. Give what you didn’t get. Love more. Drop the old story.”

We often hold onto the past. And we all have felt ourselves do it. Sometimes they are worn as scars, sometimes like trophies. It’s not uncommon to use past events as a chip on your shoulder. “They didn’t believe in me”. All of those are potent motivators. But they only last so long, as they are fleeting and weaker forms of ammunition.

When we “fight against” something, such as something in the past, we will only go so far. When we “fight for” something, it’s different. It’s purpose and meaning go beyond our singular life, transcending to something far bigger. This is where you can move mountains.

Do you hold onto something from the past? Can we reframe the mental dialogue?

Metcon

1: Metcon (Time)

Outdoor WOD:

50-40-30-20-10:

Jumping Lunges

Sit-ups

Warm-up

0: Warm-up (No Measure)

Suggested timeline for today’s suggested workout 🙂 :

0-12 Warm-Up

12-35: Back Squats

35-45: Mini Burner

30 Seconds Each

Plate Hops

Glute Bridges (Feet on Plate)

Lateral Squats

Plate Hops

Single Leg Glute Bridges (30 Seconds Each)

Wall Squats

Plate Hops Video

Glute Bridge Walkouts

Plate Counterbalance Squats

Barbell Warmup

5 Good Mornings

5 Back Squats

5 Elbow Rotations

5 Strict Press & Reach

5 Romanian Deadlifts

5 Front Squats
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zSECvHUxcU&ab_channel=CompTrainClass

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRImeYTD2jU&feature=youtu.be&ab_channel=CompTrainClass

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6VIE3P2hLE&ab_channel=CompTrainClass

Strength

1: Back Squat (Pause 5×3 @ 75% )

Build up to 75%, pause for 2 seconds in the hole each rep.

Metcon

2: Metcon (AMRAP – Rounds and Reps)

5m AMRAP:

10 KB Swings 72/53

10 Wall Balls 20/14

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Beast River Fitness – WOD

Open Gym Sessions Only Today

DAILY MINDSET
“75% Emotional, 25% Physical”

It’s said that the hardest part about anything is starting. And that once we just take that first step, the successive action seems to just fall into place. And there’s absolutely merit to that… an object in motion tends to stay in motion (Newton).

But beyond the surface we want to recognize the truth about us as human beings… that we are emotional creatures. And that our ultimate success is less dependant on the physical actions we take, and more on the emotional backings behind them.

We can conceptualize “successful action” in this way: 25% of it is the physical side. The actual hands in the dirt, grunt work. This stuff matters, of course. But these specific and granular “whats” only account to a quarter of the recipe.

75% of it is the emotional side. The story that plays between our ears as we’re underway. We’re going to hit bumps in the road, and how we internalize obstacles determines our path forward more than anything else. How do we respond when it’s a “bad day?”, and we’re missing every single snatch attempt?

When we think about it that way, successful action isn’t just about what we’re doing, and far more about how we’re doing it. Despite the battle being in our hands, it’s won in our mind.

Warm-up

1: Warm-up (No Measure)

Suggested timeline for today’s suggested WOD:

0-15: Warm Up

15-35: Barbell

35-45: Metcon

1 Minute Each

Down Dog

Box Step-ups

Active Spidermans

Lateral Box Step-Overs

3 Frog Hops + 6 Air Squats (AMRAP For Quality)

Overhead Squat Biased Barbell Warmup

5 Good Mornings

5 Back Squats

5 Elbow Rotations

5 Snatch Grip Behind the Neck Presses

5 Snatch Grip Romanian Deadlifts

5 Overhead Squats
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4ib5o5BST0&feature=youtu.be

Strength

1: Hang Snatch (5×1)

-Build up to a moderate to heavy single.

-Focus is on technique.

-Full snatch.

Metcon

2: Metcon (Time)

12-9-6:

Overhead Squats 95/65

T2B/K290

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Beast River Fitness – WOD

TRACK Day + Open Gym
Today has TWO workouts posted.
-Workout #1 is the TRACK WOD. This workout meets at the East River Park Track.
-Workout #2 is a suggested indoor workout for open gym.

DAILY MINDSET
“Bread today is better than cake tomorrow” – Chinese Proverb

There is a common misconception about drive. That if we pause to celebrate today, that we will lose our fire for tomorrow. We’ll lose our competitive edge. And we’ll be satisfied with where we are.

Something we want to recognize: Gratitude is not linked to a lack of drive. Or a lack of performance. It’s actually quite the opposite.

There’s a hormone in our brain called dopamine. It’s the “feel good” hormone. And it’s released whenever we hit that big lift, PR that workout, or just do something well. Call it the celebration hormone.

When athletes go wrong here, it’s because they fail to see something:
That dopamine is incredibly, incredibly addicting.

Think back to when you were first starting CrossFit, and let’s say you were in class. You’re thinking and working hard on your technique, and coach walks by and catches you with marked improvement to your form. He/She says – “Hey.. freakin’ nice job there. That’s an incredible improvement!”.

How would you feel? Think about it for a moment. I think we would have felt proud, accomplished, and… eager for the next one. The next praise. Because that felt good. And I want that next one. So I’m going to bust my ass even harder now to get my technique even better.

Now purely for thought – take the opposite. Pretend you never got that praise, ever. It’s only “not good enough” at all times. Fast forward 2 years. Which athlete is thriving?

Dopamine is a weapon. An absolute weapon. We just need to use it properly. Celebrate today, if for no other reason, than because it will make us even hungrier for tomorrow.

Metcon

1: Metcon (Time)

Outdoor WOD Part 1:

For time:

2 Rounds:

400m Run

50m Bear Crawl

50m Crab Walk

400m Run

40 Jumping Lunges, Alternating

40 Situps
Meet @ East River Park Track 🏃‍♀️ for Outdoor WOD

2: Metcon (No Measure)

Outdoor WOD Part 2:

AFTER PARTY

Cool Down

10-15 Minutes of Stretching & Rolling

Recommended Targets:

Calves

Hamstrings

Quads

Glutes

Warm-up

0: Warm-up (No Measure)

Suggested timeline for today’s suggested workout 🙂 :

0-15: Warm-Up

15-30: Press

30-45: Metcon

1 minute each:

PVC Pass Throughs

Overhead Squats w/ PVC

PVC Behind the Neck Strict Press

Flutter Kicks w/ PVC locked out above body

PVC Z-Press

PVC Strict Press

Barbell Warmup

5 Good Mornings

5 Back Squats

5 Elbow Rotations

5 Strict Press & Reach

5 Romanian Deadlifts

5 Front Squats
https://youtu.be/d4ib5o5BST0

Strength

1: Shoulder Press (Build to a heavy double. )

Metcon

2: Metcon (Time)

3 Rounds

30 Double Unders

20 Alternating DB Snatches (50/35)

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Beast River Fitness – WOD

Open Gym + Outdoor WOD Day

Today has TWO workouts posted.
-Workout #1 is the outdoor WOD that is an outdoor class. The outdoor class meets at the gym.
-Workout #2 is a suggested indoor workout for open gym.

DAILY MINDSET
“Your obsessions become your possessions.” – Ed Mylett

The word “obsessed” gets a bad rap.
And there’s indeed some merit to that.

But let’s try to define “to be obsessed” a little further. What it’s not defined by is “”hours put in””. That may be correlation, but not causality. One is truly obsessed with something when their passion and fire for “that thing” is so great, that their willpower will see them through even the harshest of storms. Where every other person quits… they push on. To one who is obsessed, failure is simply not an option.

Be obsessed with reaching our dreams.
Be obsessed with becoming a better husband. A better wife.
A better son, a better daughter. A better friend, a better neighbor.

Be obsessed with what we care about the most. Our fiercest willpower, pointed in the right direction, is the most powerful thing in the world.

Metcon

1: Metcon (Time)

Outdoor WOD Part 1:

5 Rounds For Time:

100m burden run with object.

20 Alternating Weighted Object Snatches

20 Object-Facing Burpees

20m Time Cap.

Warm-up

0: Warm-up (No Measure)

Suggested timeline for today’s suggested workout 🙂 :

0-12: CFWU (cut short to allow time for body armor)

12-30: G-EMOM 1

30-45: Body Armor

1: The CrossFit Warm-up (No Measure)

3 rounds of 10-15 reps of:
Samson Stretch (15-30 seconds)
Overhead Squat with PVC
Sit-ups
Back-extensions
Pull-ups
Dips
Subs:

30s Archold for back extensions

Ring Rows for Pullups if needed

HR Pushups for Dips

Gymnastics

2: Gymnastics EMOM 1 (No Measure)

12m EMOM

A. Pull up bar Complex

B. 10 Pistols, alternating

C. Static Hold

Bar complex is

3 Strict, 6 Kipping/Butterfly, 3 T2B

Static Hold is

Tuck/L hang or L sit

Metcon

3: Metcon (No Measure)

Body Armor

3 Giant Sets:

7 Barbell Bench Press

14 Double Dumbbell Bent Over Row

28 Banded Pull-Aparts

Rest 2 Minutes Between Sets

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Beast River Fitness – WOD

Today has TWO workouts posted.
-Workout #1 is the outdoor TRACK WOD that is an outdoor class. The outdoor class meets at the East River Park Track.
-Workout #2 is a suggested indoor workout for open gym.

DAILY MINDSET
“I want to see it, before I believe it.”

We are visually oriented people.
We seem to trust our eyes more than our other senses.

It’s why we call our ultimate direction our “vision”. It’s why in the middle of the night, if we think we hear something, we want to take a look before we feel safe enough to fall back asleep. We can hear news through the grapevine, but we doubt it until we see it.

Recognizing this, we can leverage it to our advantage. Many of us will agree that there is power to writing down our goals, and this is why. We begin to believe it that much more. It feels that much more real.

Write down our vision. Write down our goals. Write down anything that is important, not because it’s a mundane task… but because we need to see it, before we believe it.

Metcon

1: Metcon (AMRAP – Rounds and Reps)

25m AMRAP:

15 Burpees

200m Run

15 Air Squats

200m Run
Meeting Location:

-East River Park Track 🏃‍♂️

Equipment Required:

-None!

Warm-up

0: Warm-up (No Measure)

Suggested timeline for today’s suggested workout 🙂 :

0-15: Warm-Up

15-30: Deadlifts

35-45: Burner

1 Round

1 Minute Row

1 Minute Down Dog

1 Minute Box Step-ups

1 Minute Kettlebell Deadlifts (30 Seconds Each Side)

Barbell Warmup

5 Good Mornings

5 Back Squats

5 Elbow Rotations

5 Strict Press & Reach

5 Romanian Deadlifts

5 Front Squats

Strength

1: Deadlift (4″ Deficit, 4×7 LIGHT weight)

-Let’s add a little variety with deficits today for more advanced athletes.

-Stand on a 45lb plate to achieve a 4″ deficit or a 25lber for 2″.

-Newer athletes should focus on just improving deadlift technique.

-Perfect form today, go for overall volume not highest weight for one set.

Metcon

2: Metcon (Time)

For time:

3Rounds:

5 Strict Chinups / Ring Rows

10 Clapping Pushups

15 KB Swings 53/35, American

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Beast River Fitness – WOD

Open Gym + Outdoor WOD

DAILY MINDSET
“There will never be better you, than you.”

There is a lot to be said about authenticity.
The first definition inside Merriam-Webster reads, “worthy of acceptance or belief.”
If there’s one sure way to find failure in something, it’s through not being ourselves. It just doesn’t pan out in the long run. While we always remain a student, the harm lies when we blur the lines between emulating the traits of our mentors… with trying to actually be them.

Our mentors do not wish for us to follow in their footsteps.
Our mentors wish for us to go further. To blaze the path further than before.

We have incredible leaders to guide us. But it is now on us to push even further. And there’s no one suited better for that, than you.

Metcon

1: Metcon (AMRAP – Rounds and Reps)

Outdoor WOD:

AMRAP 15:

50 Single Weighted Object Push Jerks

50 Single Weighted Object Reverse Lunges

50 Single Weighted Object Deadlifts

Warm-up

0: Warm-up (No Measure)

Suggested timeline for today’s suggested workout 🙂 :

0-10 Warm-Up

10-25: Power Snatches

25-45: Overhead Squats

30 Seconds Each

Plate Hops

Glute Bridges (Feet on Plate)

Lateral Squats

Plate Hops

Single Leg Glute Bridges (30 Seconds Each)

Wall Squats

Plate Hops Video

Glute Bridge Walkouts

Plate Counterbalance Squats

Overhead Squat Biased Barbell Warmup

5 Good Mornings

5 Back Squats

5 Elbow Rotations

5 Snatch Grip Behind the Neck Presses

5 Snatch Grip Romanian Deadlifts

5 Overhead Squats
https://youtu.be/CwWpf4B1kxM

Strength

1: Power Snatch (Work up to moderate weight. 5×2 @ 70-80%)

2: Overhead Squat

10 Reps @ 67% 1RM

8 Reps @ 74% 1RM

6 Reps @ 80% 1RM

4 Reps @ 85% 1RM

2 Reps @ 90% 1RM

Rest as need between sets BUT 15 minute time cap for all sets.

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