We all know that the CrossFit Open is coming and its going to be a great event and community experience for us here at Thermal.  We also like to make an event out of the WOD announcement every Thursday night during the Open.  CrossFit HQ, goes to a different city and a different box each week and holds an official announcement of  the weeks workout.  The announcement concludes with two of CrossFit’s best athletes going head to head in the workout.  Its a  great way to see what we’re in store for.  Sometimes we’ll have some athletes go right for it and tackle the workout immediately after its released.  We encourage everyone to join us Thursday evenings after the 6:30 WOD for the live announcement of the 2016 Open workouts.  Read more

Strength today is a 5 rep max thruster – you’ll need to clean it from the ground – if you squat clean, then that may count as your first thruster as long as you get below parallel. If not, you may also power clean and then start your 5 thrusters. The metcon is an ascending ladder of power cleans and chest-to-bar pull-ups. The power cleans increase by 1 rep each round and the pull-ups increase by two each round. Scoring for this will be simple with rounds and reps (e.g. if you finished the 6/12 round and got 3 thrusters into the 7’s, you will score it as 6+3. Strength 5RM Thruster Conditioning AMRAP in 12 minutes: 1 power clean, 155/105# 2 chest-to-bar pull-up 2 power cleans 4 chest-to-bar pull-ups 3,6…4,8…etc.Read more

Friday was a workout with a lot of rounds, but only 1-3 reps for each movement. Today is the complete opposite of that: a chipper with one “round” but many reps for each movement. You must complete each movement before going on to the next one. Once you’re done with double unders, call “TIME!” For time: 400m run 50 box jumps, 24/20″ 60 wall balls, 20/14# 70 burpees 80 sit-ups 90 double unders  Read more

This is a team workout consisting of clean and jerks and rowing. The workout will be 30 minutes in length: the first 15 minutes will be for clean and jerks and the second 15 minutes will be for rowing (no rest between portions). With one bar, take turns finding a 1RM clean and jerk. You may go in any order and change weights as needed. There is no limit to the number of attempts. At exactly 15:00, everyone must stop doing clean and jerks and one person from each team starts on the rower. After every 10 calories that person must get off the rower and the next person goes. This is a relay style event and you must keep the order. In Wodify, put your individual CJ weight and put the team total in the notes section (because it will pop up everytime you CJ), but the metcon can...Read more

You read that right: 50 rounds. This workout will hopefully allow you to work on some volume without going to failure as much as usual, especially with movements like push-ups. If push-ups come easy to you, try ring dips. You’re going to need a counting system for this one! 50 rounds for time: 1 knee-to-elbow 2 push-ups* 3 KB swings, 53/35# *Rx+ ring dipsRead more