WOD: "Shake Weight" for 6 mins.

Dec. 25th I plan to take my usual Christmas day run. Some quiet time between gifts and a big family dinner. Eat and be merry!

My wife got me rings and compression tights for Christmas. Looks like I'll be doing muscle ups followed by squats on christmas day!!!

Merry Crossfit everyone. I'm looking forward to a great year of Crossfit in 2011.

Merry Christmas, everyone! Eat all the delicious food you can tomorrow. You earned it.

Merry Christmas, CrossFitters!

Merry Christmas everyone!!!

Merry Christmas from Australia!! Time for lunch....

One of the best pictures on mainsite ever.

omg a rest day thank god!!! just started crossfit and it is great wow! sincerely so sore lol

merry christmas crossfit

Merry Christmas Crossfitters!!!

Thank you so much, HQ, for posting that video from Tanya on being pregnant. It is truly encouraging to hear from such an elite athlete who is going through what the rest of us Crossfitting preggo girls are feeling.

My Christmas greeting, courtesy of Trans-Siberian Orchestra, "An Old City Bar"...

If you want to arrange it
this world, you can change it
if we could just make this whole
Christmas thing last.

By helping a neighbor,
or even a stranger.
To know who needs help
you need only just

ask.

With a heart bursting with thanks for all that you have given me these last 5 years, Merry Christmas.

Darrell

I remember having to memorize that poem and recite it in grade school.

one round:

open all presents for time

I did not read the whole thing because it was too long... I agree with some and disagree with some, but people can complain about crossfit all they want, if you don't like it just don't use it.

Personally, I couldn't care less of how metabolism conditionning really works, I do crossfit because it's fun, and it makes me bigger, stronger and faster EVERY DAY and I can workout at my home. Also, the website is free and anyone is free to follow it or not, or customise it. Of course there are risks of injuries, even rhabdo, but we all know that don't we? I'm willing to take the risk of being injured, BUT i'm also doing everything I can so it doesn't happen, I always think about safety first. Is the winner of the games really the fittest man on earth? It depends on your definition of "fitness", but honestly, why care?

In 1948, the State of Israel was declared. This set the stage for the return of Emanuel. Merry Christmas. :)

Merry Christmas CrossFitters!

We are blessed in many, many ways. This community is just one of them! :)

Read all that thread (at least 90% of it). It's not very coherent. Why does that guy spend so much time on it? I doubt it is altruism.

All I know is that after two years of working out 5 times a week in my own garage. I am:
Faster and stronger almost every time.
I am a better doctor.
My feet, knees, back, shoulders, hips don't hurt anymore.
I can work heavy labor all day and shrug it off.
I don't get severe colds anymore.
My physique is like I never knew it could be.
I am confident that I can match any physical challenge that I encounter (within 99.9%ile)
I'm now way leaner and lighter and stronger.

So whatever they are all beefing about I can just say CF has worked wonders for me. If there is something better bring it on. Put it on a free website with content to teach me how it's done.

Gad, if there is something better it's got to be something like a radioactive spider bite 'cause I'm damn good now.

... I've always been interested in fitness. Before CF I was into adventure racing as an age grouper. So running and biking. I knew I was missing the strength portion of fitness at the very least but didn't know how to approach it. I didn't like what I saw in the gyms. I went to Gene Allen's box one day and watched normal people doing amazing feats of functional movements and I thought, "This is it. This is how to get the fitness that I need." It worked. I didn't get rhabdo, my shoulders didn't rip out of their sockets. Injury is part of every sport but not part of every sportsmans experience.

If there is something better. It doesn't even have to be free just show me where it is. Someone, show me where it is. One of you trolls, post it, where do I look for better training? I know there are other similar sites. Mountain man or seal fit or whatever. I want to know what I can do, in my garage for one hour 5 days a week and be noticeably better and safer. Those are my constraints. I'll pay. Show it to me. If you can make me better (or just as good) and make my DOMS go away then I'll pay BIG.

Merry Christmas to all around the world. This will be my first Christmas home with my family as last year I was in Afghanistan... enjoy all the good food, and may everyone has a joyous and safe Christmas!!

Anyone know the location of the picture in the collage with the girls wearing pink sweatshirts and antlers??

Merry Christmas to all; do whatever your heart desires and (hopefully) be thankful for what you have! I am and thank Crossfit for their part in it! 3...2...1...Merry Christmas!!!

Peace ...

Merry Xmas to everyone with purple deadlifting monkeys!!!

Merry Christmas!

Nice, my handstand Santa made main site. Does that mean I need to do s WOD?

Hah!, here my wife thought she was the only one who found a purple gorilla ornament. At first I thought it may have been doing King Kong, but note the grip, that's a SDHP!

Merry Christmas CF!!!! Can't wait for 2011 with all of you.

merry friggin' christmas eh!

Merry Christams to my Crossfit Family!!! @173rd Soldier...Merry Christmas to you and the rest of the HERD...You earned it Brother!!!

Merry Christmas!!
CF and community!! thanks for keeping me motivated and healthy. Congratulations to Josh and Tanya! Way cool, i love crossfitting with my five year daughter, my kids are the joy of my life. Also would like to know how to get one of those pink sweatshirts for my wife i just know she'd love it, and possibly the socks for me. and ahhh have the tickets for the games gone on sale yet?hehe can't wait for next year 2010 was a blast. Peace, Love, and Chicken wings!!! yall!
Geno from san diego

Merry Christmas!!

Greg, I wish you the best on Christmas and God bless you for your generosity to our soldiers. You are a very special person. Bob

I get a warm fuzzy feeling inside when I think about all those liberal/marxist/socialists out there right now sitting in their underwear at the computer in their mom and dads basement scratching their heads in bewilderment after watching the Hans Rosling video.For years they have been regurgitating the left wing lie that wealth and prosperity is unfair, how often do we hear the liberal mantra "the rich get richer and the poor get poorer" but it just does not stand up to the hard facts of reality. As is clearly demonstrated in the video the fact of the matter is as the rich get richer the poor get richer as well.

Merry CHRISTmas

Merry Christmas everyone. Thanks for posting the Robert Frost poem, one of my favorites :)

Victor: Merry CHRISTmas. I see what you did there. Clever. Those marxist and liberals will never figure it out! And if they do, I`m sure that warm fuzzy feeling will come back when they shake with rage in their underwear!

Anyhoo, didn`t have a very crossfitty Christmas here. My inlaws don`t live near a crossfit-friendly gym. The only one nearby is what I like to call a "pretty person`s gym."

You know the type. Hoop earrings, caked on make up, caked on hair gel, no one is sweating and there are about 10 machines to one free weight. I couldn`t find a box to jump on anywhere, and one of the workers there told me to not rest my weights on their nice laminated wooden floor. Good times.

But! Still a wonderful time of year, no? Merry Christmas everyone, and a happy new year!

Merry X-mas to the entire community and thanks to G & L for all you have done!

What post are these guys (#16,19,20,&21) talking about? I could find a negative post in today or yesterday. Thanks cross fit community and merry Christmas. By the way loved yesterday's WOD.

Merry Christmas my fellow crossfitters!

May we pause and reflect on the true meaning of this day, the day we celebrate the birth of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. God bless you all!

Phil 4:13

merry xmas all. have a powerful new crossfit year!

My Wife and I just Arnie'd after a lazy morning watching "Christmas Story" twice on TBS...

A. St. George (32:32)
21 TGU (R)...1 pood x 4, rest with 20# kb
50 swings rx'd
21 OHS (L)...20# kb
50 swings rx'd
21 OHS (R)...20# kb
50 swings...13 rx'd, rest with 20# kb
21 TGU (L)...20#kb

D. St. George (34:16)
1.5 pood for all rounds

I'm searching through my stocking for the Advil Santa gave me...all for you, Arnie...RIP, brother.

#23

That's CF Fort Walton Beach during the Christmas parade. They were pulling my truck!

For those people who want something fun to do:
http://beyondthewhiteboard.com/workouts/118108-bruno-s-xmas-wod
Cheers and Merry Xmas! bruno

Merry Christmas!! Eat up! You earned it!!

Merry Christmas to all!!! I am giving myself the best gift of all... FITNESS and HEALTH.. Thanks CrossFit

Merry Christmas CrossFit Universe! Going to be away from my gym til after the New Year so lots of running and TRX work over the next week. Can't wait to see what the program brings for me in the coming months. Peace!

Merry Christmas CrossFit Universe! Going to be away from my gym til after the New Year so lots of running and TRX work over the next week. Can't wait to see what the program brings for me in the coming months. Peace!

Feliz Navidad! Peace and Goodwill to ALL! Thank you for another yaer of great workouts.

Merry Christmas to Everyone! God Bless.

Todd

merry christmas everyone. we should all be thankful that we've been blessed by something so great for free. thank you coach and hq.

In celebration of baby Jesus:
CF warmup, then for time:
25x pullups, 25x 95lb OHS, 25x 95lb thruster, 25x 95lb SDHP, 25x 95lb SDHP, 25x 95lb Press, 25x 135lb front squat, 25x 185lb bench press, 25x 225lb deadlift, 25x 60lb dumbell swing, 25x dips, 25x decline situps, 25 meter lunges with 45lb dumbell held overhead.
-Special Forces Prep and Conditioning FTW!
-Be a effin' athlete!

Merry Christmas Crossfitters and families,

Safe travels

Eat, drink and be merry.

And tomorrow, train like your life depends on it.

Merry Christmas to you all.

500kcal in 33:59 on e.t. 12.5-13.3 METS
had to work a 10 so why not?

"And miles to go before I sleep."- One of my favorite Poems. Merry Christmas all.

Merry Christmas Crossfit nation!

Got a weighted vest (20lb) and a speed rope for Christmas! Can't wait to use them!

Now all I need is some bumper plates and a few kettlebells!

Thanks ElRoy

Felices fiestas para todos desde Temerife. Les deseo lo mejor.

Poster is awesome... while i had no need to OHS either my 14" tree nor my parents' 12" tree, I did end up having to clean and jerk both repeatedly to get them on top of our respective cars... and it was friggin' easy this year! CrossFit! It's a Christmas miracle! ;)

Rest - Travel day for Christmas