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Crossfit training plan – 23/7/18 – 29/7/18

Geoff Stewart | 20-07-2018
Welcome to Phase 4, week 5 of our 2018 training plan. Week 5. The weather is hot and so are you guys - and not just in the post-sweaty WOD sense. This week I'm going to bang on a bit about sustainability. I don't mean in the environmental sense (we will come back to that in a few weeks time).... [Read more]

Crossfit training plan – 16/7/18 – 22/7/18

Geoff Stewart | 13-07-2018
Welcome to Phase 4, week 4 of our 2018 training plan. Week 4 fun, fun, fun! We have a lot of it in store this week. Things are going to get spicy this week. There are few main rules we use when setting our programming. One of the key ones is balance. When we say balance we're talking about technique,... [Read more]

Crossfit training plan – 9/7/18 – 15/7/18

Geoff Stewart | 08-07-2018
Welcome to Phase 4, week 3 of our 2018 training plan. Week 3. So how was the first 2 weeks of this new phase? We really hope you are getting your gains, learning some new skills and, most importantly, having fun. There is a lot of stuff flying round the inter-web at present about the perfect body, ripped abs, tight... [Read more]

Free body scans (and vending machines…)

Geoff Stewart | 02-07-2018
Did you know we have a body scanner at Hackney? No, it’s not from outer space, it won't beam you up and it won't share any of your vital stats with all your Instagram followers. What it will do is measure some of your body composition markers including weight, body fat, muscle mass, muscle distribution (ever thought you're stronger on... [Read more]

Thursday Night Rowing Classes – Row with an Olympic medalist

Josh Schouten
Luka Špik, Olympic Rowing Champion, is a regular on a Thursday evening @ 7:30pm.   This class focuses on rowing technique and rowing fitness.  Each week Luka will guide and challenge members to improve their anaerobic and aerobic rowing capacity. Rowing has a fantastic strength and technique carry over to many other CrossFit movements, as well as serious fitness.  Learning how to... [Read more]

CrossFit Gymnastics – July 2018

Jenna Fisher | 01-07-2018
After a month of conditioning and some excellent improvements on your 21, 15, 9 capacity, we now switch back to strength. This month looks to improve your strength for muscle ups (ready for next month's conditioning workout) without actually doing any muscle ups :-) (more…)

Barbell Club – July 2018

Jenna Fisher
Big congrats for all your hard work last month. Some previous 1RMs were broken with the increased weight being lifted not only for one rep but for 2-4 reps! The next 5-month cycle will now begin. To recover from the heavy loads of the last two months, and to rebuild some muscle endurance, we return to higher reps. This time... [Read more]