AS YOU PROBABLY KNOW, MARISSA AND I ARE IN THE LAND OF CROSSFIT, SUNNY SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA! WE ARE ON A RECONNAISSANCE MISSION OF SORTS, GETTING AS MUCH CF ON AS WE CAN IN THE NEXT FEW DAYS. THE HIGHLIGHT SO FAR, AND VERY MUCH WORTH THE 4 HOURS OF FREEWAY DRIVING, WAS OUR VISIT TO MIKE'S GYM IN BONSALL, CA WHERE WE WERE HONORED TO SPEND A COUPLE OF HOURS WORKING PRIVATELY WITH COACH B! NOT SURPRISINGLY, COACH B SAW MARISSA FOR THE KILLER ATHLETE SHE IS, WITH THE RAW UNTAPPED POTENTIAL FOR BECOMING A NATIONAL CHAMP! SOOOO...BRING ON THE SNATCH SKILLS AND DRILLS! AS A COACH, I LEARNED SO MUCH AND AM VERY EXCITED TO CONTINUE WORKING WITH ALL OF YOU ON THESE TECHNICAL - AND FULFILLING - OLYMPIC LIFTS! 

MARISSA AND COACH B AT MIKE'S GYM

LOOKING FOR A FUN WAY TO SHOW OFF ALL YOUR WELL-HONED CF SKILLS? DR. ANDRES SHOWED ME THIS LINK TODAY - AN ADVENTURE RACE CALLED "MUDDY BUDDY". THE NEXT CLOSEST ONE IS IN ORLANDO IN MAY. THIS COULD BE A REALLY FUN TEAM-BUILDING EVENT. CHECK OUT THE LINK BELOW AND POST YOUR THOUGHTS:

MUDDY BUDDY RACE 2010

THANKS TO BELOVED MEMBER AND ASPIRING SHUTTERBUG, GRETCHEN GILES HAS KINDLY UPLOADED SOME NEW ACTION PHOTOS OF Y'ALL. A TAB HAS BEEN ADDED TO THE LEFT SIDE OF OUR HOME PAGE AS A PERMALINK. CLICK BELOW TO SEE THE LATEST SNAPS - INCLUDING THE NOW INFAMOUS ALBUM "ALL DOM - ALL THE TIME".

I STILL THINK THERE SHOULD BE A DUELING ALBUM "ALL CHUCKIE - ALL THE TIME". POST YOUR THOUGHTS ON WHO ELSE SHOULD GET SOME LENS TIME!

GRETCHEN GILES PHOTOGRAPHY LINK ON SMUGMUG

I'm proud to say I successfully completed the CrossFit Olympic Lifting Certification this past weekend in Flowery Branch, GA with the famed Coach Mike Burgener (www.mikesgym.org). I am inspired and excited to impart some of my new findings with you all!

One of the things you can look forward to is a daily dose of "The Burgener Warmup" as well as some Transfer Skills and various Speed & Agility Drills. These will be taught and implemented over the next couple of weeks. Ultimately, you will be asked to perform both the Burgener Warmup and Transfer Skills EVERY DAY on your own, BEFORE starting the daily warmup and WOD. Click the highlighted links above to see video demonstrations of these exercises. These skills/drills will take you no longer than 2.5 minutes at the top of each class, but will ingrain proper STANCE, GRIP, and MOVEMENT PATTERNS required of our Olympic Lifts - the Clean, Jerk, and Snatch.

SARAH B & COACH BURGENER - YAY BURPEES!

It's so awesome that you guys keep up your CrossFitt-in' while you're on the road. I received a nice email update from Mark Winker today (4pm regular) - thought I would share it with you. Be sure to hit the link and see him in action at P3 CrossFit in Houston, TX:

"Hi Sarah,

Just saying a quick hello from Houston. These guys/gals are cool and there
are some people here training for the games as well (their Sectionals are
the same weekend as Florida's). The owner, John, put a photo of me up on the
home page as proof that I was here =).

http://p3crossfit.com/

Hope all is going great back in Delray Beach and I look forward to getting
back to CFDRB!

Mark Winker"