Testing Week/Lumberjack 20 We are halfway through testing week, and it has been a blast so far! I hope our members had as much fun lifting and PRing yesterday as we did coaching them through it. I spent, not kidding, a solid hour after classes last night re-watching all the PR videos I took while …
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We are so excited to announce details of our Pride event, which is just over two weeks away! It is not a competition, but an opportunity to support a great cause while working out and having fun. Our goal is to raise $1000, which we will donate to Lambert House, King County’s only LGBTQ youth center. …
We kicked off this year with the Seattle to Portland rowing challenge. It was so awesome to see so many of our members get really excited about it, and motivated to move and push themselves! Now that we are literally all stuck at home, I know it can be really hard to tap back into …
One movement we haven’t traditionally done often in classes is the pistol, aka single leg squat. We generally work on single leg strength in other ways, such as lunges and step ups. Many of you are currently at home without much or any equipment, and have expressed concern that you are going to lose strength …
Many of our members work out on their own, especially during the COVID-19 shutdown. Coaches usually have different warm ups for each class, tailored specifically to what you are going to do that day, but also have standard warm ups we return to frequently. Here are a few different options for warm ups when you …
When I realized Cinco de Mayo falls on a Saturday this year, I thought it would be fun to do a Cinco de Mayo-themed workout. The obvious choice was to do a workout where the rounds and reps corresponded with the date commemorated. I quickly realized I didn’t know the year of the original event …
