A CrossFit® Book You Must Read: Positivity vs. The Process
Let’s take a step back for a second from our CrossFit® gym bubble, and take a look at the bigger picture. I know you follow WODprep for movement tips, workout pointers, and learning how to “take your training to the next level”. However, as a coach I would be doing you a disservice if I didn’t […]
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How To Do Perfect Kipping Pull-ups
If you don’t know how to do kipping pull-ups yet, I’m going to make a wild guess: you hate Fran. Imagine you’ve just walked into the gym with your friend, and you see “Fran” programmed up on the whiteboard… Fran: 21-15-9 Thrusters (95/65 lb) Pull-ups You each have different reactions… “Awww man, this is going to take us forever without being able […]
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What Gets Measured Gets Done: My Experience With Tracking Calories and Macros For CrossFit®
Today, I want to shift gears away from teaching specific CrossFit® skills towards a different direction. I instead want to talk about eating, nutrition, calories, and macros for CrossFit®. As we all know, fitness is much more than what happens within the walls of your gym. So I’m going to take a few minutes to […]
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Double Unders For Beginners: A 7 Step Progression To Mastery
Whether you’re brand new to CrossFit® or have been training for a while, we can all agree on one thing: double unders are not an easy skill to learn, and they are REALLY frustrating. Let’s take a look at a few important keys for mastering double unders: Correct jump height. Spinning the rope in a controlled manner. Keeping your […]
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The Toes To Bar Progression You’ve Been Searching For
Let’s talk toes to bar. Odds are, toes to bar wasn’t a movement that you saw before stepping foot in a CrossFit® gym. And while the skill itself looks to be simple, getting the hang of it and stringing reps together is more difficult than it looks. To get rid of the difficulty, I’m going to […]
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Strict Pull-ups For CrossFit®: The Ultimate Guide
If you’re reading this, odds are you fall into one of these categories: You’re working towards your first strict pull-up for CrossFit®. You want to be able to do more strict pull-ups. You want to learn how to coach strict pull-up drills and progressions more effectively. Great, you’re in the right place. Welcome to what we hope will be […]
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A Goal Without A Plan Is Just A Wish
After a recent girls night out, I told a friend that I would love to be good at doing my own makeup. My friend, listening to my comment, gave me a look and said something that made me smile. “If I thought for a minute that you gave a shit about your makeup I’d tell you to […]
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Her First Strict Pull-up: A 1.5 Year Journey
“I always felt like I was close to getting a pull-up, but not quite there, and not sure what to do to get myself there.” Can you relate? For a lot of us, there’s a time when a movement may seem completely impossible. You feel like you’ve been practicing for months, yet you’re not making progress. When that […]
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Strict Pull-ups: 6 Common Coaching Mistakes
“How many strict pull-ups can you do?” It’s a question that coaches ask often, and athletes hear all of the time. If you’re a coach, odds are it’s one of the first things you ask new athletes who walk into the gym for their first workout. Strict pull-ups are the foundation of a ton of gymnastics movements […]
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Me vs. Me: Defeating Whiteboard Envy
Comparison is the thief of joy. In the dog eat dog world that we live in, it’s difficult to stay focused on the pursuit of self-fulfillment. Too often, we compare ourselves to others to get a sense of how happy we deserve to be. Furthermore, we tend to question our own self-worth when something good happens […]
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