CrossFit Oldtown; freestanding handstand pushup

Aaron B gets his first freestanding handstand pushup!

You can tell from the video - he'll soon get multiple reps!

Crazy Strong!

Learning the Handstand - Once difficult, Now Easy

We celebrated a Crossfit Old Town birthday with some handstands...

Happy 39th Pat!

More Fun Pictures from the workout!

This was a tough day...

Our warm-up was what some would consider their workout!

3 rounds:

Bullwhip

Jumping Pullups

Cal's

Wallball

High Pulls

Cal's

Then on to AMRAP in 20 minutes

5 HSPU

10 Weighted Box Jump

15 Jumping slamball

We had a nice chance to work our handstands

Quite a few progressions...

Andrea has done an amazing job leading the charge for our handstands!

There were a few first Handstands and others who are dialing in on perfection;

Andre, Rebbia, Anna, Ben, Nick...

We also witnessed one of the top CrossFit Old Town Performances ever:

Andrea hit 10 rounds in todays workout while wearing a 12lb Weight Vest!

That is 50 Handstand pushups with a 12lb weight vest - Amazing!

It's a Hall of Famer for sure...

I've been getting a lot of phone calls and emails from folks checking out our blog and our program...people are really interested but many say it looks intimidating!

What can I say?

50 handstands with a 12lb weight vest is intimidating to all of us!

The good news?

"Learning the Handstand - Once difficult, Now Easy"

If you are a prospective CrossFitter, Andrea is holding a free handstand clinic on May 3rd at 2:15 pm - you will walk away feeling strong, confident, and perhaps even invincible!

Look...

If you have the desire to succeed...

We provide the best environment possible for you to prevail

Here in Old Town

We celebrate success

and

We celebrate it often

Whether its your first pushup

or

50 handstand pushups with a weight vest

We are inspired

and

We are inspiring

Jerry Hill's CrossFit Challenge: Handstands and more fun

Warmup

6 Rounds:

Bottom Squat Holds x :30

Russian Leg Raise x :30

Ramp Up

5 round Tabata:

Lateral Line Drill

Situps

Full Speed

10 rounds or 25 minutes:

4 Handstand pushups

6 Chinups

8 Jumping Slamball

10 Heavy Kettlebell Swings

Fever

Crazy Night...

From 9:30pm - 2:30am I had the chills and a red hot fever - slept in my CrossFit hoodie (hood up) and every blanket and comforter I could find - Between the hours of 12:30 - 1:30 I went to another dimension - It felt like someone had slipped me Peyote and then put me into a sweat lodge, not that I've experienced either ;-) - I slept for a minute and woke up, slept for a minute and woke up...after about an hour of this I was flat out delusional - Somewhere between 2:30-3:30 the fever broke, I woke up in a puddle of sweat; I was happy but hung-over from the ordeal...

Fortunately, I knew Andrea was coming in to coach this morning - I called her around 5:15 to check in and of course she was more then willing to coach all classes.

And how appropriate to have her head the morning classes as Handstands and Deadlifts were in the Workout; 2 movements Andrea is well versed at coaching!

Quite frankly her handstand coaching is unparalleled - I got her post workout report and heard there were many new handstand and handstand pushup successes.

Her understanding of the deadlift is equally impressive. She has worked hard to master the deadlift in her own personal practice and like many great coaches turned it into a coaching strength - Again her post workout report sounded like we had a few more breakthroughs in performance!

So congrat's to all on a killer effort!

From all those in attendance today and triple that from me;
Thank You Andrea!

WOD:

AMRAP in 20 Min

5 Handstand pushups

10 Deadlifts

15 Jumping Slamball

Bodyweight Baseline

We shot 31 people through "Bodyweight Baseline" Today!

A thanks goes to Eugene Allen from CFPC for this Workout!

Once through for time:

500 meter row

40 Squats

30 Situps

20 Pushups

10 Pullups

Che set a new Women's class record in the 500 meter row at 1:56!

Cara hit a sub-2:00 at 1:58!

Mike set a New Men's Record at 1:32!

Jack - 1:33

Chriss - 1:35

Wes - 1:36

All beat the old class record as well...

Danny set a new class record for pullups at 39!

Killer workout, great effort by ALL!

Lunge to Handstand

Video: Andrea Coaches the Lunge to Handstand

Video: More coaching AND Handstand Pushup Modifications

Andrea kicked-butt coaching the Lunge to Handstand and everyone kicked-butt in learning it!

A great day for skill training CrossFit Old Town Style...

I'm excited to see our continued progression with the handstand as our core strength and conditioning goes through the roof!

In our continuation of Skill Training we will cover the Muscle-up this Wednesday!

Chriss has put together a great learning progression for us...

I think we'll see a whole lot of Team Members join the Muscle-up Club!