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Eric Richard Athletic Therapy Eric Richard CAT(C)
Certified Athletic Therapist at Young Kempt Physiotherapy. CF-L2, First Responder

10/13/2026

FALL STRENGTH CYCLE

Still strong. Just faster. There will be a higher neurological demand for these days! Get ready to sleep well after these workouts. We're hitting back squats, deadlifts, and bench press using this method during the fall, about one a week with other strength days layered in for shoulder press, front squat, overhead squat plus odd object strength days.

These will have direct impact on moving weight quickly, which means we can increase our olympic weightlifting potential while getting strong in the core powerlifts. It all transfers somewhere!

See you in the gym ⚡️ 💪
Ironstone Strength
Young Kempt Physiotherapy

10/08/2026

TEST WEEK: BY THE NUMBERS

The amount of success you all had on our powerlifting and weightlifting was astonishing! Per test we had on average 71% of people hitting a PR, just based on the amount of people who logged. That means a huge amount of people had more than one PR!

Congrats to you all and we are looking forward to the fall cycle that we've just entered. Stay tuned for more info and see you in the gym!

09/17/2026

TEST WEEK take TWO ✌️

We are in a testing phase of our program from September 19-October 3! Some days we will have retests from our Spring testing period in May where we measure your progress since then. Some are new tests that will help guide and improve our program for the upcoming Fall cycle. All are to work towards furthering your fitness journey!

Buckle up for the next 2 weeks and stay on top of your carbs, drink your water, and sleep lots if you can during this phase! See you in the gym 👊


09/11/2026

D E L O A D

September 14-18 we are pulling back a small bit to prepare for our Fall testing period, running from the 19th-October 3rd. This means a few things:

- slight reduction in overall load through the week
- slight reduction in intensity
- still a high intensity program, just not maximal

If you're just starting back with us after the summer, have no worries. Intensity is what you make of it! Go hard if you're just starting back. If you've been on our cycle for the summer, ease off a bit because we'll have LOTS of intensity during Test Week.

Deloads will increase your fitness when applied appropriately. We still show up and put the work in, we just save the selling our souls for fitness until it matters!

See you in the gym.

A huge congratulations to former patient and athlete Erica Folo who competed at the CrossFit Games this past week! The t...
07/28/2026

A huge congratulations to former patient and athlete Erica Folo who competed at the CrossFit Games this past week! The training and dedication it takes to make it to the world stage of the CrossFit Games is immeasurable.

The future is so bright for Erica and we can't wait to watch what's in store!

Young Kempt Physiotherapy
Beaverbank Physiotherapy
APATA
Ironstone Strength

Your Canada Day workout at  !! 🇨🇦Coached by coach  Partner AMRAP 324 Rope Climbs 24 Single Arm Dumbbell Push Press 12 St...
06/29/2026

Your Canada Day workout at !! 🇨🇦
Coached by coach

Partner AMRAP 32
4 Rope Climbs
24 Single Arm Dumbbell Push Press
12 Strict Pull Ups
200m Dumbbell Carry
12 Synchro Devil Press

Your teams dumbbells stay with you the entire time, being carried in whatever combination you want! See you there!

05/24/2026

Welcome to Test Week! For the next 2 weeks we'll be doing some testing in many of our CrossFit classes. Some are metcons, some are small sets of isolated skills and/or lifts.

The key thing to know during these 2 weeks is that we are simply collecting data. If there happens to be a test
that you hit a PR on or surprise yourself with how you do, awesome! If there is one that is either very hard, feels
discouraging that you have to scale it all, don't worry and don't panic. These are designed to challenge you but
also teach you something about yourself.

We use these tests to objectively see where our fitness is at and from a programming perspective, helps guide the program to ensure we are hitting all realms of fitness in a
balanced way and we don't shift too far one way or the other.

To cap off our testing period with a bang, the events of the summer series CrossFit competition will be the final tests!


Coming Monday.May the 4th be with you ✨️ Run: scaling distance to take less than 10 minutes. Toes to Bar: start with big...
05/03/2026

Coming Monday.

May the 4th be with you ✨️

Run: scaling distance to take less than 10 minutes.
Toes to Bar: start with bigger sets. Let the fatigue creep up.
Run: again!
OHS: large sets with focus on reaching overhead continually. If you can't get below parallel in OHS, scale to front squat.

 finished off another winter off-season training block last night! They kick off their competitive season next weekend i...
05/01/2026

finished off another winter off-season training block last night! They kick off their competitive season next weekend in Toronto.

This crew always comes prepared and has put in 16 weeks of preparation, building a strong base of strength followed by increasing power and agility to maximize their performance and reduce risk of injury during the season.

Good luck this year !



04/12/2026

Happy Sunday! Weekly update for programming. Lots of things coming this week. Dumbbell bench press, back squats, strict ring pull ups among other odd ring things, toes to bar and bar muscle ups, kettlebell thrusters and hang power cleans, and MAYBE some running on Saturday.

Swipe for some words on Monday's workout. Use what you learned on Friday and apply it today!

Have a great week and I'll see you in the gym.



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