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WOD Tuesday 2nd October 2012

By Gavin Heselton|2012-10-01T23:06:23+01:00October 1st, 2012|CFG Spartans Weightlifting Club|

Black Box Come on down and see what we have in store for you. Olympic lifting goes ahead tonight with some of the finest instruction on the Olympic lifts available in the UK from Ray Cavanagh, Haris Ansari and Colette Will: 2 UK number ones for their categories and a former Commonwealth Games athlete: if you have not already attended, why not? Jonny Kilpatrick of Physio Effect will be running a mobility WOD instead of the 19.15 class on Thursday night and will cover a range of mobilisation techniques that will enable you to maximise range of motion, minimise joint impingement and reduce the negative effects of repeated training sessions. The girls WOD will go ahead this saturday conditioning our female athletes for competition and strength and covering skills not routinely encountered by the fairer sex. Sunday sees the return of the Parkour team WOD: functional fitness set in a dynamic team-based format. The gym will be running open qualifiers for the second team for the Divided We Fall competition in Swansea on the 21st of October. It will be an all day event costing £6 per competitor with all funds going toward supporting our teams at the comp. Even if you have no aspirations toward competing at DWF or if you feel that you are not yet at that standard, it is worthwhile for everyone to take part and get a sense of the community and of a real competition. The DWF first team were selected on the basis of their skills base [...]

WOD Monday 19th March

By Gavin Heselton|2012-03-18T23:11:32+00:00March 18th, 2012|CFG Spartans Weightlifting Club, CrossFit Games Open 2012, WOD|

WOD 1-1-1 Strict Press 3-3-3-3-3 Push Press 10 Min AMRAP 5 Toes to Bar 10 Games Press Ups 15 Double Unders Tuesday Night: Olympic Lifting with Ray and Haris 20.00 Wednesday Night: Mobility with Jonny K 19.00 Thursday: Games Open 12.5 Thursday Night: Conditioning for Parkour 19.00 Saturday: No Girls WOD as Coaching staff attend Rob O's Strongman Cert at CrossFit Clitheroe Sunday: Repeat Judging for 12.5. Last push for the top 30!

WOD 20th Feb 2011 CrossFit Glasgow

By Gavin Heselton|2012-02-19T20:25:43+00:00February 19th, 2012|CFG Spartans Weightlifting Club, CrossFit Games Open 2012, Paleo Spartans, WOD|

WOD CrossFit Total 3 Attempts to reach a Single Rep Maximum (1RM) in the following lifts: Strict Press Back Squat Deadlift This WOD marks the start of the retest phase for the Paleo Spartans. We will have your previous scores to hand when you come down so that you'll know how much you've improved. Get in and give it your all, this is what you've been working for. CrossFit Glasgow has been given the go ahead from SWL to host the 2012 Scottish Weightlifting Open. This is a major event on the British Weightlifting calendar with both Olympic and Commonwealth Games athletes likely to make an appearance. If you wish to compete this year please make sure that you affiliate through the CFG Spartans Weightlifting Club and collect an application form for the competition itself. If you feel that you are not yet up to scratch on your Olympic lifts then make sure you attend this week's coaching session on Tuesday night at 8pm. Jonny's mobility classes continue this week with more structured torture for the inflexible, and the Conditioning for Parkour classes will go ahead as normal on Thursday. These classes are filling up rapidly so get your names up on the board to avoid disappointment. There are now 45 members of the box signed up to the Games Open. If you have not already done so, please get involved as soon as possible since this represents an excellent opportunity to test your mettle against CrossFitters the world [...]