Heavy Metcon 4/7/18
Get even more comfortable with the uncomfortable...? (more…)
Free body scans (and vending machines…)
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
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
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
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]
Crossfit training plan – 2/7/18 – 8/7/18
Welcome to Phase 4, week 2 of our 2018 training plan. Week 2. How was week 1 for you? Aches, pains and some new skills we hope. This week its all about digging in getting some quality numbers into your training logs (you do all obviously keep a training log, right?). There are some really quality workouts this week.... [Read more]
Heavy MetCon – 27th June
Comfortable with the uncomfortable...? (more…)
Crossfit training plan – 25/6/18 – 1/7/18
Welcome to Phase 4, week 1 of our 2018 training plan. Week 1. The first week of any new training plan is a little bit of an adventure. There will be some new exercises, some new rep schemes and some new combinations of exercises, so don't rush in. Please take some time to read the program and listen to your... [Read more]
Crossfit training plan – phase 4
Welcome to phase 4 of Momentum Training's 2018 CrossFit programme, starting on Monday 25 June 2018. Functional strength Here we go headlong into yet another training phase. We know that many of you enjoyed the last one and are excited for this one. When we talk about functional strength we aren’t talking standing on 1leg with your eyes closed drinking... [Read more]