Combining skateboarding and weight lifting - CrossFit Eastside Have a safe holiday!
We will have just one class offering this Friday, July 3, at 9am. No other classes that day.

On Saturday the 4th, we will have one class as usual, at 10:00am.

CrossFit Eastside Saturday CrossFit fun in the sun
CrossFit Eastside 160 x 5 x 3
Pull-up - CrossFit Eastside Congratulations on your first pull-up, Danielle!
CrossFit Eastside - pulley system for muscle-up transition
A pulley system from athlete to rings reduces the load by half and allows the athlete to practice ring work to develop strength and technique on exercises such as pull-ups and dips to name a few. It’s particularly useful for learning the feel of the muscle-up transition that stymies so many folks.
Plyo jumps - CrossFit Eastside Quick plyometric jumps, in sequence. Keep focused, controlled, accurate movement while bounding off the ground as fast as you can. Feet touch the ground for just a fraction of a second between each box.

Accelerate quickly, change direction quickly.

Repeat. Repeat. Repeat…
CrossFit Eastside hoover ball Hooverball
Rope climbing - CrossFit Eastside

Climbing, pulling, and swinging movements focus on large muscle groups, develop grip and forearm strength, and improve both external object and body control, and thus have broad functional application to other forms of exercise, work, and sport (rock and ice climbing are just two of the most obvious examples).

The kind of “lifting” involved in body-pulling movements such as rope climbing and pull-ups complements the hip- and trapezius-oriented pulling movements we do in the deadlift and Olympic lifts. The type of pulling required to pull the body against gravity or other resistance toward the hands—and in moving and lifting the body while hanging—engages different muscles in different ways, making the lats, posterior deltoids, chest, and biceps the prime movers.

For more, see the CrossFit Journal issue on macroclimbing from 2004.