Member Achievement Spotlight: Jordan Kerr
March 24, 2009 by Andrea
Filed under Member Achievements
Commitment and dedication pays off.
Just ask 15 year-old FirePower athlete Jordan Kerr.
Jordan has spent the last 4 years training with Team FirePower, perfecting his lift technique, dramatically increasing his CrossFit conditioning, and developing a champion mentality for on the ice, on the football field & in the boxing ring.
In June 2008, Team FirePower coached Jordan to an impressive first win of his boxing career. This decisive win was against an opponent with over a 1 ft height advantage!! His 3 months of CrossFit conditioning and his intensive boxing & sparring training was strongly noticed by the 300 audience members and even the TV commentators.
Since then, Jordan has focused on his CrossFit training and lifting with impressive results. With his current body weight at 138lbs, here’s a sample of his current Olympic Lifting PB’s:
- Deadlift: 305lbs (220x his body weight)
- Hang Clean: 195lbs
- Squat: 305lbs
Jordan also participates in FirePower Hockey – an intensive summer hockey program for OHL and NHL athletes. His fitness level far exceeds the million $ athletes he trains with! If you happen to catch a glimpse of Jordan training, you’ll see an example of focus, commitment, passion and an awesome attitude!
Check out this video of his 305 squat! mov00926
WOD – March 12
- 20 wall ball (M=20, W=14)
- 20 hang squat cleans (M=95, W=65)
- 20 jumping air squats
- 5 ring dips
- 15 wall ball
- 15 hang power cleans
- 15 jumping air squats
- 5 ring dips
- 10 wall ball
- 10 hang power cleans
- 10 jumping air squats
- 5 ring dips
- 5 wall ball
- 5 hang power cleans
- 5 jumping air squats
- 5 ring dips
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Reminder of the Wellness Event on Sunday afternoon (2 to 3:30pm) RSVP to Andrea. Friends and family welcome. Come listen to some helpful educational info, and enjoy some tasty HEALTHY treats from “InchLossEating” a new soon-to-be-launched web site, courtesy of Brian’s amazing wife Sandy! An exciting day for everyone!
Which one is better?
These photo’s are self explanatory…which one would you want to help you on moving day?
Train hard, see you in the gym.
-Brian
WOD – February 18
FirePower Fighter, Paul Kaschilo
100 double unders (or 800 singles)
Then: AMRAP in 30 min:
- 5 handstand push-ups
- 10 dead lifts (155m, 105w)
- 15 box jumps (24″)
Still not comfortable with double unders? Try doing 5 minutes of the before every workout as your warm-up. In a short time you’ll see a significant improvement!
A Few Reminders:
- Come check us out SATURDAY at the Milton Mall for Sports Registration Day!
- FREE Adventure Racing clinic at FPT on FRIDAY 8pm. Fantastic info for the adventurous types!
- We’re launching a new FirePower CrossFit Super Kids program…stay tuned for details ASAP!
WORLD CLASS FITNESS IN 100 WORDS
“Eat meat and vegetables, nuts and seeds, some fruit, little starch and no sugar. Keep intake to levels that will support exercise but not body fat. Practice and train major lifts: deadlift, clean, squat, presses, C&J, and snatch. Similarly, master the basics of gymnastics: pull-ups, dips, rope climb, push-ups, sit-ups, presses to handstand, pirouettes, flips, splits, and holds. Bike, run, swim, row, etc, hard and fast. Five or six days per week mix these elements in as many combinations and patterns as creativity will allow. Routine is the enemy. Keep workouts short and intense. Regularly learn and play new sports.”
Do any of you try new things, sports or otherwise. Travis keeps trying to get me to come with him to adult gymnastics. So far I’ve chickened out. I’ve been afraid of failure, but how can I ask more of you guys without asking more of myself, so Travis get ready because I’m going to come with you this week…failure or not.
Anybody else out there trying new things, let us know about it!
-Brian
Welcome to CrossFit
Routine is the Enemy!
There is no ideal routine. Don’t subscribe to high reps, or low reps, or long rests, or short rests. Strive for variance.
Taking the workouts outside
The CrossFit program embraces short, middle, and long distance conditioning, low, moderate and heavy load assignment. We encourage creativity and continuously varied compositions that tax physiological functions against every realistically conceivable combination of stressors. This is the stuff of surviving fights and fires.
No routine takes us there!
