In this quick conversation, we want to learn all about you, your fitness goals and how we can help you reach them.
WOD:
Cash in – 400m Plate Carry
Then 5 rounds
Cash out – 400m plate carry
EMOM 10
“Trident”
AMRAP x 4 Minutes
-Rest 1:00-
AMRAP x 4 Minutes
-Rest 1:00-
AMRAP x 4 Minutes
Lakenya chats with Coach James about what brought her to CrossFit Jungle Gym a year ago and how even through nutrition changes she has been able to achieve amazing results.
“Just the need to have professionals around that know proper form and can inform me of how to do the movements and how to do them safely.“
“Over the last 90 days I have decreased by body fat percentage by almost 7%, increased my skeletal muscle mass by 2 1/2 pounds and my weight has gone down by close to 10 pounds”.
“First sign of progress I think getting closer to my 1 rep max for my deadlift, closer to my 1 rep max for my squat and other lifts.“
“The biggest obstacle – mental. Total mental game sometimes. Sometimes you think, oh I changed my nutrition I won’t be able to do xy or z. It’s ingrained in your mind that you have to eat meat to be able to achieve these results. I’ve had to change my diet to a point that I thought it would be harder for me to obtain certain results – but it’s clearly been the opposite.”
“Further nail down my nutrition and I think continue to just strive to get that little bit better every time I work out. Give consistent effort, not necessarily push myself to finish in record breaking time, but to consistently move through the workout and finish and give a good effort, but still challenge myself. Get better to increase my cardiac output and strength.”
“Nothing to lose and everything to gain. Trained professionals is the key to meeting those goals and reaching out for help is the first step. I’m glad I did more than a year ago.”
8-8-8
2 Rounds For Time
4 Sets
Every 1:30 x 10
10-10-10
Start light build to moderate
AMRAP x 13 Minutes
Preview of workouts for the week of 9/14/2020:
WODs are subject to change.
Strength:
3 Sets for Quality
Workout:
AMRAP x 14 Minutes
For Time – 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1
Coach James recently sat down with CFJG athlete Sam to discuss what first brought her to CrossFit 2 years ago, how she stayed motivated during quarantine and what goals she wants to accomplish next.
“I had been doing a lot of work with a personal trainer for a while and I was doing a lot of circuit training, which was good, I built a lot of strength. I was looking for something more exciting something with more goals in mind, with more variety.”
“Well I have had a big increase in strength, in weight lifting, I do a lot of weightlifting. When we went into quarantine a lot of what I did was strict work and just strength work and I think that helped my overall strength. That was probably the biggest improvement for me over the last 90 days.”
“I think that just starting to work with the barbell again. I started off doing pressing and even just cleans and it came back really quick. The technique was there – I got a little of technique work in during covid. Adding technique on just helped me to maintain where I was and go off from there.”
“I think just not getting completely off track. We did a lot of the online programming, just keeping me on track and keeping me motivated.”
“Definitely work on pull ups again, because those did drop off a little bit. Getting my strict strength back up with that, hopefully 10 strict pull ups. Kipping is still pretty good, hoping to get some butterfly pull ups again, which we haven’t worked on in a little while. Conditioning is pretty good but I still want to work on that a little more.”
“I would definitely give it a try you don’t have to have any level of fitness coming in here. You can start with the intro, the 60 day intro is great. I started just going over how to do an air squat, going over how to do a push up. If your at that level you’ll start from the beginning and work your way up. If you’re a little more advanced which I had a lot of that coming in, I had strict pull ups and stuff coming in – I was still at a point where I could go from there. Whatever level of fitness that you’re at, you can start anywhere and progress and everything can be modified. So it seems intimidating but it shouldn’t be, just go ahead and give it a try.”
In this quick conversation, we want to learn all about you, your fitness goals and how we can help you reach them.
