Another awesome day at the box with a packed and always sweaty Bootcamp
Followed by another quality Weightlifting session with Coach Christie on her triumphant coaching return, from the successfull Junior Battle in Austria over the weekend, congratulations guys.
Yet another night of improvement in Celtic Weightlifting in the books. With Wave 2 done and Wave 3 ready to commence on Monday
Our Next On Ramp- Introduction starts next Tuesday 7.6.16 contact gettingstarted-celticcrossfit@outlook.com to book in.
#SadNewsAlert
Unfortunately we have some sad news to share
Our very much loved member Ladislav is sadly leaving us to travel back home to Czech Republic with having done his last workout at Celtic CrossFit tonight!
Lad has brought that something else to the box on every visit he has made.
Showing great progress in his time with us showing to be a top athlete.
Everyone here at Celtic CrossFit are sad to see you go Lad but we wish you all the best in the future!
make sure to stay in touch
Once a Celtic Warrior always a #Celticwarrior
Today at the box. A few deadlifts brought out of the bag for tonight’s short enjoyable workout.
Dawn patrol – great buzz once again with Paul showing great spot on technique work with his snatch. Rachael’s technique becoming better every session. Abi proving to be the only female athlete to RX with a great score
Class 1 – Leighton proving to improve more and more on his strength and lifts all the time now. Great to see our trusty old friends Rob Hoffrock and Tom Lloyd back into action
Class 2 – A new 1 RM snatch for new dad Geevesy and Matty back from injury showing it hadn’t knocked his engine
Class 3 – Big improvements in snatch bar path from Claudia and Anna also great catch position improvements for Karl and Rob gann
Awesome perseverance shown by Stu working through a big weakness to finish the Workout in a fab time!
Fastest RX time of the day went to John in class 3 (sub 7 mins) and Rhys Guard with fastest scaled time closely followed by Karl also went sub 7 mins
The Celtic CrossFit 2 Affiliate Cup is hotting up and it was another awesome weekend for 16.3 with plenty of members hitting their first ever bar muscle ups and smashing the workout.
Starting off with yet another action packed #fridaynightlights and then following on to Saturday and lots of our #celticwarriors getting up on a Sunday to either hit the workout, cheer on or judge.
Kev Gibson, Ben black during WOD after getting his 1st the day before, Mark Yeandle, Alex Jones all hitting bar muscle ups for the first time, also Nat C hitting her first post baby muscle ups.
And always awesome to see John Stone working at the box post Heart Surgery. Inspirational
Then returning on Sunday after disappointment on Friday getting some Bar Muscle Up prior and post 16.3 fir one of our longest serving members, Jo Williams. Hitting her first ever bar muscle up Friday then go on to hit more during 16.3. Awesome stuff guys!!!
Tonight saw an opportunity for our #celticwarriors to test the thruster and then hit a sneaky couplet.
Loads of pb’s tonight on the 1RM thruster. Ryan, Kelly, Rob, Nat, Nic, Leighton, Georgia, Geeves, Tracey, Maria, Vix, Will to name a few. The list goes on. Though couplet with heavier thruster than people are used to for this rep range. Everyone pushed themselves to the absolute limit. Top work by all. Little Rob taking top time of the night. Mention to Nic who made it up and over the box for the whole wod, sometimes in her own unique ‘Nic’ way. WOD
A) 1Rm thruster
B) 21-15-9
Thruster
Box jump overs ***Nutrition Reminder***
This Wednesday sees the Nutrition Seninar with Mike Catris of Kratos Nutrition 6-8pm
Payment required guys – fantastic opportunity to get your learn on and make the most of your hard work in the gym by optimising how you prepare and use the underpinning factor
Today saw another great day of sessions at the box. With PRs to start the day at DP another 2 sessions of Strength and Conditioning from their pre season summer block. With plenty exiting opportunities and developments to come for our promising youngsters.
PM classes carried on the standard set by dawn patrol with lots of PRs being chalked up.
In class 1 it was the youngers (Max, Alex and Euan) who were demonstrating superb technique in there cleans. Can’t wait to see some of them in the upcoming Welsh teen throw down.
In class 2 Abbi nearly surpassed her 1RM for a triple and bully and Sam hitting some big numbers.
Class 3 carried on the theme with Claudia, lorna, Hannah and Ami hitting new PRs.
SiD is a unique competition looking for boxes with much larger teams than normal to compete to qualify for the Final.
We are proud to say we had plenty of interest in the box to field a team that requires a minimum of 12 per box including male female and masters competitors.
Showing how the hugely Improved ability of our warriors and in fact the confidence in their own abilities. To put themselves forward to compete and try to gain qualification to the Final in the quality venue of Bath University on 28-29th of November.
It has begun and we look forward to competing as a box in this unique Competition.
Drew and Ross quickest time so far and stu first ever RX’d workout.
Mike’s movement getting a lot better consistently across all movements.
Vicky B getting back into the swing of things after hols making 30kg ground to overhead look like a toothpick
Here’s a little coaching video for those of you working to develop your Double Unders. But remember it is a skill that takes correct practice to develop and will not simply happen by just a little go now and again. Perseverance is key. Practice, practice, practice… WOD
A) Back Squat
3 x 10
B) 10 MIN AMRAP
50 Double Unders
12 KB Swing
15 Sit ups
Great sessions today at the box.
New warriors Jackie and Jess getting to grips with the skipping although no double unders yet but progress definitely on show in DP.
After practice all weekend Anna still couldn’t get double unders but by listening to the coaching did all double unders in the wod well done Anna!
Claudia getting double unders linked with singles.
Kev also stringing them together with more efficiency.
A fast and furious Monday at the box today. With our Celtic Teens getting to grips with some farmers carries and their ever improving squatting. Followed by some Olympic weightlifting and a Juniour version of our Full Class WOD. A summer full of progress for our #futurewarriors
WOD
A) Split Jerk OTM
B) 4 Rounds
2.30mins AMRAP 3 Power Clean
6 Press Up
9 Lateral Over Bar Jump
Rest 2.30 Min
Today we hit some more Split Jerk refining our Celtic Warriors skills with a barbell overhead. Fantastic progress all around.
Great to see Kelly Cook working hard post baby, with Mrs Carter still Wodding awaiting baby Carter.
Top lifting by many especially Jenny straight in off On Ramp and showing good skills with bar in hand. Liam demonstrating great diligence and dedication to the pursuit of good movement as always, with awesome technique across all lifts and throughout the Split intervals.
Kelly and Erika working through some early frustration with their cleans with great determination and adjusting well to move the barbell better.
Natalie Tanner’s hard work showing with solid lifting and an always improving engine across the workout.
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