Surya and Sara have been working diligently with the yellows recently. In the pursuit to move into the national pro division, our female competitors have been making steady progress on a daily basis. You will even see them working with the purples occasionally.

The technical qualities, not just the strength, required to do a minimum of 100 reps in the Long Cycle Clean & Jerk are key to success. Please join us in supporting every member who’s been practicing, as those of you who’ve been attending our KB Sport classes know how difficult it is to become technically proficient.

Although the one and only Wendy B. has not been seen in Bootcamp most recently, she and Jess continue to devise ways to keep her in peak condition. Wendy is one of many fabulous moms at the IC who can kick some serious butt. This is one person I would like to have with me in a dark alley.

…or both?

Joe G. confuses us all. When is this guy not happy?

The badasses of 0900 intensify their workouts before summer vacation…

Check out Pam back in action!

We are happy to report that 6 a.m. veteran Mars Stone made it through surgery with flying colors yesterday. Great news: everything that could have went wrong, didn’t; everything that could have went right, did! Bye-bye tumor. She is awake, smiling, and luckily visiting another dimension…

While this is not quite the After photo she was anticipating, we hope she feels dang proud of herself anyway. Mars has had a challenging year and yet, she never let her training fall by the wayside. In fact, she continued to lose weight (nearly 25 pounds) and train consistently up until two weeks ago. No doubt, Mars will be back in action very soon!

These three individuals made a huge leap in their technical development. This picture says it all: you can draw a straight line from the bells to their center of mass. As a result, Shari, Rob, and Nick came through with some very strong numbers tonight!

Paul Price has been on the all-star energizer team 1000 for the past few months now. It’s time we give him a proper shout out. Keep up the awesome training Paul!

In recognition of fatherhood, we’re featuring one of the very best, Dr. Calvin Deng. Calvin is a father of two beautiful children (a baby and a toddler!) and an internal medicine physician, but these aren’t the only reasons we’re putting him in the spotlight. In less than six months, Calvin has lost over 25 pounds. Go Big Daddy!

Two other interesting facts about Calvin:

Calvin met his beautiful wife Sherry in 1997 when he went to undergrad and med school at Northwestern University in Chicago.

He finished his residency at Kaiser Oakland in 2002 coincidentally with another IC veteran, Dr. Lisa Chandler.

Today is officially the last day of school for most of our children. We want to thank all of our IC teachers, including our 6am dynamo Deborah Place of Albany Middle School (pictured here exploding off the ground), for doing such a wonderful job with all of our kids!

Speaking of kids, name the parent(s) of all seven children from this morning’s 9am Bootcamp and claim your prize: your choice of IC apparel.

Jess is an avid climber and professional pottery maker, which should explain her incredible grip strength. As you can probably imagine, pull-ups are no’ thang for her, but lately she’s been playing with the big dogs when it comes to choosing weights and we couldn’t be happier for her. Check her out performing a Bootcamp favorite: the seated oblique twist (a.k.a bunnies) with a 30 lb. dumbbell. But, aside from enjoying some serious strength gains, Jess still likes to test her pulling skills on the balls o’ fun.