We love introducing women to barbell work 💪🏽 To put it reallllllly simply, lifting heavy weights helps with; - Reducing body fat - Improving muscle tone - Improving strength - Improving confidence and self esteem - Improving flexibility and mobility It's that simple really. Ladies, get lifting 👊🏽💪🏽🏋️‍♀️🙋🙅

CrossFit isn't all loud music and heavy weights being thrown around. Our NINJA class is a gymnastics/movement based class, designed to improve motor control and body weight drills 💪🏽 It's all well and good being able to lift big numbers with a barbell, but here's a little challenge; 1. How many STRICT pull ups and press ups can you do? 2. How well/easily can you control your body performing the 'flow' in the video? If you're struggling with these two challenges, maybe leave the barbell alone for a while and go through some NINJA training 🤔

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Full house for our 5am and 6am STRONG classes this morning 👌🏽 Our STRONG classes involve working through a strength cycle, finished with a short WoD (workout of the day) 😰 This morning saw the team work through Good Mornings, Weighted Lunges and Back Squats, topped of with a little Burpee finisher 💪🏽 (p.s. try to not look at the new artwork - it's not quite finished yet 🙈)

Wimp 2 Warrior Season 2 UK Finale

Iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiittttt'sssss tttiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimmmmeeee 👊🏽 40 contestants started the journey together. 5 months of incredible hard work and dedication. 1 month left to leave it all on the line. 6 haven't been able to complete the journey. 34 remain on course to put on the UKs biggest amateur MMA spectacle. Being apart of Ivy is life changing enough 😜 but the Wimp 2 Warrior UK programme takes life changing to another level 👊🏽 Last year it was described as "more than just an MMA show", and "the most emotional sporting event there is" 🙌🏽 Sunday 19 March. It's time.

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A massive shout out to this living legend. Despite accidentally eating copious amounts of cake and accidentally drinking large quantities of wine, James' training has been on point 👌🏽 He's also hilarious and is the official sponsor of the 'James Trumble Ski Erg' ⛷😂 Thank you for being such a great member of the team 👊🏽

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Start the week how you mean to go on 💪🏽👊🏽

Loved working with a local college, teaching them about real health and fitness, and how to start controlling their own mind and lives. Almost anything is possible if you have the right attitude and work hard to develop the right skill set.

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When it's a partner workout, and your partner decides this one isn't quite for her 👀😭

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Is it just us that look forward to a 4am alarm on Monday mornings?

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When you're daddy is actually the strongest daddy in the world 👊🏽 It's that time of year that New Years resolutions start to be forgotten and old habits creep back in. In particular, health based habits. For all of your goals and actions, there is a 'why' behind them. 'Why' are you choosing to 'be healthy' by cleaning up your nutrition and training? The more personal and profound your 'why' is, the better chance you have at fulfilling your resolutions. When you're struggling, just think about your 'why'.....

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Delighted to be stocking all the goodies Nourish Kitchen offer 😋 Seriously good and seriously healthy food 👌🏽 (Disclaimer: Bliss Balls are addictive. We are not responsible for you purchasing 3 at a time with every trip to Ivy 👀)

If you know, you know!! #nmam #nevermissamonday #crossfit #crossfitivy #squats #fitness #goals #cardio #crossfitter #wod

So today was a retest on Hero WOD " Maupin " September 2016 = 46.43 January 2017 = 44.20 2017 target = Sub 40 minutes #crossfit #herowod #running #pushups#situps #squats

#countdowntonewyear last #crossfit session of 2016 @crossfitivy and it was a good un!! 💪🏻Thanks @jasminetenger and sorry @charmers_gregg for having to pick me up 😱. Bring on 2017 🎉🎉🎉

Body is a little broken on the run up to Christmas, and after doing 1000 double unders yesterday, my calves are shot. So after a warm up it was a nice accessory morning #tabata #plank #pallofpress #stepups #wallballs #ringrows #goodmornings #bandedflys #weightedlunges #gobletsquats #pistolprogression #crossfit #30plusmensfitness #dadintraining

So our never miss a Monday session went a little like this Hero WOD " Wood ".......... followed by deadlift de-load week. 5 x 5 at 130kg #herowod -#crossfit #running #burpees #boxjumps #kettlebellswings #thrusters #runningsucks #thrustersuck #nmam

Deadlift - I prefer the Hex bar Deadlift as due to the weight distribution/centre of gravity I find them slightly safer, less stressful on the lower back and easier to teach to the regular gym goer. ________________________________________________________ A couple of very simple coaching cues, would be to clamp your lats down, stay tight, accelerate into the floor and rip the weight up. ________________________________________________________ You should be able to lift more load with the hex bar, because of the shorter external moment arm lengths in comparison to the conventional Olympic bar. ________________________________________________________ U.K. researchers compared the strength and biomechanics 
of competitive powerlifters when they did deadlifts with an Olympic bar and a hex bar. They reported in the Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research that when test subjects did the hex bar deadlift, they were able to lift an average of almost 50 pounds more than when they...

Another week done. More growth, more progress, more skills. #Wimp2Warrior