Happy Thanksgiving!!

3 new racks for strength work. Something to definitely be thankful for

Hope everyone had an amazing thanksgiving full of awesome food and family time. I myself spent thursday and the following days trying to fight through my morbid obesity caused by excessive pie consumption. Training will be somewhat difficult the next few days trying to get the metabolism back where it should be before the christmas break. So starting tomorrrow, we will get back on track with our diets and stay consistant even in the holiday-festive atmosphere. As always I was impressed with the effort and tenacity put into this last week's training before the break. Let's work super hard these next few week as an accumilation of the hard work from the past 6 plus months. Let's show our family and friends at those X-mas parties how good we look and feel and tell them its the result of doin work at APF!!

Racks and Rings are Here!! Sweatshirts Coming Soon

Jets O-line warming up. Insane how big these guys are in real life

Lynette and I rockin our Jets gear waiting for the train

Inspiring to watch the incredible work ethic my members have put out this week! Love seeing new faces coming into the gym and immediately submerging themselves into the community. Even though the weather is not supurb, we are able to overcome the elements and get some awesome fitness in. New racks and rings are finally here so we can FINALLY do some strength movements that our bodies have been neeeding. Uber gitty to be coming up with new APF zip-up sweatshirt designs. Be exciting to see people rockin these out and about. Representing and staying warm at the same time. Let me know if you want one I will put your name on the list.

hang power cleans, squats, wall climbs. doin work

cool down stretching. critical

New Cool Stuff Coming Soon!!

A lot has happened since I last posted. Let me get the upsetting news out of the way first. Unfortunately our GK boys came up a bit short last friday night in the first round of the playoffs. We finished 8-2 and the boys had a great season overall with a ton to be proud of. Seniors this year are the best group of kids I've ever coached and I will miss coaching them.

Cool view at work, thought I'd throw it on here

Moving ahead, exciting new equipment is on its way and should be here next week. We are finally getting racks!! Racks are coming to graham and APF (unlike the Racks bar that got shut down) :/ We will be able to enhance our strength with these racks with the ability to do some back squats and multiple pressing movements. Also a couple new bars, rings, dumbells and kettlebells. This has been a good week thus far in the shopbox, with a couple new faces joining the party and veteran members welcoming them by leading by example. Continue to feed off each other's energy, progress, and success to make each other better!!

Cameron and Darky enjoying burpees and box jumps



Rockin atomic sit-ups. One of my favorites!!



Cole executing med ball cleans. He is a promising young athlete. We are excited to have him here at APF

Looking ahead I would like to have a couple of fun saturday team workouts where we do some lecturing on diet and mobility. I would also like to throw a christmas party next month. Give me some feedback and let me know what will work best

Frantastic

fran action. dig it!!

LouAnn 200 + PR Deadlift

pull up action during fran

It's been a while since I posted, I apologize. Last Friday I could not have been more fired up to introduce "Fran" to my pupils. 21-15-9 Thrusters and Pull-Ups. Very impressed with the high intensity and energy level that surrounded the gym. I can tell everyone was feeding off each other's struggle and drive to finish the brutal endevour. Can't wait to re-introuce this famous workout again down the road. Very surprised and pleased on how drastically everyone has improved on their strength, technique, intensity, range of motion and other fitness aspects. I'm extremely excited for the future of the gym during the upcoming winter months and have everyone hit the ground running into the new year. As far as the GK football campaign, JV finished off the season with a 7-2 record and a top of the league, once again. Proud of the boys for getting it done and hoping they can all improve as the move on to varsity. As for the varsity, they finished with an impressive 8-1 record and are playing a home playoff game this Friday. Hope we can take care of business and roll onto the second round and much further!!

Amazing Grace..100% PR

Dominating Grace at the Friday tailgate WOD

Grace PR's!!

So another productive week at APF with everyone making progress. Very pleased with the consistancy in improvement that everyone has showed even while dealing with busy schedules and some small nagging injuries. If we continue to stay the course and grow together, I can only imagine the exciting possibilities. Not to mention the massive success our GK family has endured over the course of the season. I can tell you now that the boys really appreciate all the hard work and effort you parents have put in over the entire course of the year. That hard work is very reminiscent of the dilligence put into working out at APF. Let's keep forging ahead and building our elite, fit and healthy community!!

The Puyallup Pulverizer & New Developments

Friday tailgate wod fun

I lost 5 jump ropes this week in one day..its ok as long as everyone gets better at double unders

LouAnn rocking her APF shirt. This week she deadlifted 185 three times, touch and go. Her previous one rep max was 176. Excited to see everyone getting better

Although I've tried to post at least 2-3 times a week, it turned to be the sunday update blog. Everyone better stay tuned for big events that will take effect the next couple weeks and only get better as the we progress into 2013. I need everyone to give me feedback and keep me informed on all their progress. Here is what I'm looking to introduce.

ALL-PRO BOOTCAMP:
This program will be an hour long drill runned, task-oriented class that will always be on the move and will include various movements and exercises that will be to my cadence. Much like a real boot camp it will start early in the morning (5:30 & 6:30 am). I'm really excited to "get back to my roots" and have a great time inside my shop box early in the morning this winter. For more information about this program, please contact me.

ALL-PRO TRAINING CAMP:
I'm really excited to be introducing this cutting edge program this winter. Specifically for athletes, and competitive crossfitters, this program will be after the 5:30 & 6:30 classes. The APTC will be very sports specific for not only my specialty in football, but all sports. For more information about this program, please contact me.

Brave Basher

The high, positive energy in the shop box this week was extremely contagious and really reflected in some excellent performances. Not only in the gym did this occur but in the stands on friday night's game against our rival Bethel where our Eagles pulled off a huge 35-28 emotional win which put this 2012 team in the history books. Very happy and proud to be a part of this with our players, coaches and parents and many more contributing to the success of the team. Let's keep these good vibes going into the fall!!