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We all need accountability. Someone or something that holds us accountable and keeps us in check.

A coach, a box, a training partner can make the difference on those days that you feel like staying at home.

You: – Yeah, I am staying in the crib – It is cold outside……..

Your training partner:  Cribs are for babies….see you at the gym.

I would show up.

Think about it and join the AfroBrutality and CrossFit Harlem accountability checks and balances.

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Would you like find out whether CrossFit Harlem is for you, then you must try one of our $5 Intro Classes!

One Intro Class will tell you everything you need to know about our training methods, whether you like CrossFit and if it for you! Everyone that tries of Intro class is either ready to sign up or ready to run home and never come back! Either way you’ll never know until you try! We are totally RESULTS BASED we are only interested in you reaching your Goals! Its OUR job to get you to your Goals, thats why were here! Come and experience CrossFit OUR Way!

The First step is to come to Barbell Series of Intro Classes. The Barbell Series is a six class series that covers the basics of Barbell Training. You’ll practice perfect form on the Barbell movements that make up our workouts, learn how to Squat, Press, Clean, Snatch appropriately to your own level, and the more efficient you become with these movements the closer you’ll get to your overall goals.

The Movement Standards that we instruct you on will correct your posture, back problems, knee problems etc.we also teach you all the “Cool” CrossFit lingo so when you hear people talking about CrossFit you’ll finally understand what their saying!

The cost of the Barbell Series is $300 this includes Barbell 101, Squat 101, Press 101, DeadLift 101, Interval Training 101 and Everything You’ve Ever Wanted To Know About CrossFit But Were Afraid To Ask, also a 10 Class Card, so you can try some Regular classes and meet the people you will want to be like someday.

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On January 20, 2009, Barack Obama was inaugurated as the 44th president of the United States; he is the first African American to hold that office. The product of an interracial marriage–his father grew up in a small village in Kenya, his mother in Kansas–Obama grew up in Hawaii but discovered his civic calling in Chicago, where he worked for several years as a community organizer on the city’s largely black South Side. After studying at Harvard Law School and practicing constitutional law in Chicago, he began his political career in 1996 in the Illinois State Senate and in 2004 announced his candidacy for a newly vacant seat in the U.S. Senate. He delivered a rousing keynote speech at that year’s Democratic National Convention, attracting national attention with his eloquent call for national unity and cooperation across party lines. In February 2007, just months after he became only the third African American elected to the U.S. Senate since Reconstruction, Obama announced his candidacy for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination. After withstanding a tight Democratic primary battle with Hillary Clinton, the New York senator and former first lady, Obama defeated Senator John McCain of Arizona in the general election that November. Obama’s appearances in both the primaries and the general election drew impressive crowds, and his message of hope and change–embodied by the slogan “Yes We Can”–inspired thousands of new voters, many young and black, to cast their vote for the first time in the historic election.

“44th U.S. President”

9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2 Burpees, Deadlifts 135/225, Pull-ups.

After the heady rush of the civil rights movement’s first years, anger and frustration was increasing among many African Americans, who saw clearly that true equality–social, economic and political–still eluded them. In the late 1960s and early ’70s, this frustration fueled the rise of the Black Power movement. According to then-SNCC chairman Stokely Carmichael, who first popularized the term “black power” in 1966, the traditional civil rights movement and its emphasis on nonviolence, did not go far enough, and the federal legislation it had achieved failed to address the economic and social disadvantages facing blacks in America. Black Power was a form of both self-definition and self-defense for African Americans; it called on them to stop looking to the institutions of white America–which were believed to be inherently racist–and act for themselves, by themselves, to seize the gains they desired, including better jobs, housing and education. Also in 1966, Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale, college students in Oakland, California, founded the Black Panther Party. While its original mission was to protect blacks from white brutality by sending patrol groups into black neighborhoods, the Panthers soon developed into a Marxist group that promoted Black Power by urging African Americans to arm themselves and demand full employment, decent housing and control over their own communities. Clashes ensued between the Panthers and police in California, New York and Chicago, and in 1967 Newton was convicted of voluntary manslaughter after killing a police officer. His trial brought national attention to the organization, which at its peak in the late 1960s boasted some 2,000 members.

“Black Power” Bear Complex Cycles 12reps 45/75lbs, 9reps 65/95lbs, 6reps 95/135lbs, 3rep 115/155lbs, Clean & Jerks 12reps 45/75lbs, 9reps 65/95lbs, 6reps 95/135lbs, 3reps 115/155lbs, Power Snatches 12reps 45/75lbs, 9reps 65/95lbs, 6reps 95/135lbs, 3reps 115/155lbs

By the early 1970s, the advances of the civil rights movement had combined with the rise of the feminist movement to create an African-American women’s movement. “There can’t be liberation for half a race,” declared Margaret Sloan, one of the women behind the National Black Feminist Organization, founded in 1973. A year earlier, Representative Shirley Chisholm of New York became a national symbol of both movements as the first major party African-American candidate and the first female candidate for president of the United States. A former educational consultant and a founder of the National Women’s Caucus, Chisholm became the first black woman in Congress in 1968, when she was elected to the House from her Brooklyn district. Though she failed to win a primary, Chisholm received more than 150 votes at the Democratic National Convention. She claimed she never expected to win the nomination. It went to George McGovern, who lost to Richard Nixon in the general election. The outspoken Chisholm, who attracted little support among African-American men during her presidential campaign, later told the press: “I’ve always met more discrimination being a woman than being black. When I ran for the Congress, when I ran for president, I met more discrimination as a woman than for being black. Men are men.”