Hand position in the push-up can change the emphasis of the movement. For instance, a wider placement puts more emphasis on the chest muscles while a more narrow placement puts more emphasis on the triceps. Try to find a good balance of using both muscle groups. You’ll be doing the push-ups at one end of...Read More

Strength Clean pull 2, 2, 2 Metcon Tabata: Pull-ups KB swings, 55/35# V-ups Clean pulls are designed to help you feel heavier weight in your hands (hook grip of course) and work on keeping your arms loose through the first and second pulls. Get into your clean setup, sweep the knees back as you raise...Read More

For this team workout, one person will start at each station. While one athlete is rowing, the others are trying to do as many reps at their respective stations. Once the rower reaches 200m, they move on to burpee box jumps and each athlete rotates to the next station. Continue in this fashion for 14...Read More

At CrossFit Thermal, we’re so excited to have a growing community, and we love when we have a packed house night after night.  Sign-ups are required for all athletes coming to take CrossFit Classes.  Turning our athletes away will always be a last resort, but when safety, or coaching quality is compromised, we may have...Read More

If this workout looks somewhat familiar, it’s because it’s Diane with a twist: 21-15-9 of deadlifts and handstand push-ups mixed with some muscle-ups. The deadlift weight should be moderate and handstand push-up scales can include wall walks, inverted box push ups, and stink bugs. Muscle up progressions include a pull-up and dip combination. For time:...Read More

For strength today, find the heaviest weight you can push press + jerk. The jerk may be a push, power, or split. The metcon is for total reps, but you’ll alternate the movements: start with wall balls and try to get as many as you can in the first minute. Then switch to toes to...Read More

The clean may be anyhow – a power, or full clean. If you happen to clean more than your previous 1RM clean and jerk, go for the jerk! But it’s not required.   Strength 1RM Clean Conditioning 5 rounds for time: 5 power cleans, 70% 10 burpees over barRead More

CrossFit Thermal – CrossFit The clean may be anyhow – a power, or full clean. If you happen to clean more than your previous 1RM clean and jerk, go for the jerk! But it’s not required. Clean Metcon (AMRAP – Rounds and Reps) 5 rounds for time: 5 power cleans, 70% 10 burpees over barRead More

Join us today for a friends and family workout at 10:00am!  Stick around after class to mingle with members and friends as well as to watch the much anticipated “Beer Mile”. The workout today will be completed in teams of 2 with one athlete working at a time.  The athletes must complete the runs together,...Read More

Today is a focus on finding our 20RM back squat. This is a quick way to build top end strength even though we are in the 20 rep range. You should not do all warm-up sets with 20 reps – rather, do sets of 5-10 and “feel” it out if you haven’t done this. Those...Read More