Double Under Tips: Finding The Perfect Jump Rope
Fast Ropes = Fast Cars. Imagine you’ve just turned the legal driving age. Today is the day that you finally get to learn how to drive. Woohoo! Driving school is the first order of business, and other than a couple times where you’ve played with your friend’s go-kart, there’s not a shred of driving experience in your […]
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CrossFit® Gym Drop-in Guide: Find the Best Box & Have a Great WOD
Nothing throws me out of my routine like traveling. I completely stop tracking my food intake. I binge watch shows I’ve been meaning to catch up on into the wee hours of night. I sleep way past my regular 5AM wake up call. I get zero reading done. However… The one thing I try not to compromise […]
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Box Jumps For Beginners: Avoid Injury, Jump Higher, and Conquer Your Fears!
Box jumps are a staple in CrossFit® programming. It’s commonplace for box jumps to be one of the first movements a beginner learns in their foundations class. Unlike double unders, kipping pull-ups, or handstand push ups… box jumps don’t require lengthy instructions, hours of practice, or repetitive failure to learn. Due to the simplicity of the […]
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“I don’t have time” is a lie. How this CrossFit® mother of two changed.
Life is busy. The kids are even busier. Work life is creeping into home life – and what’s a “vacation”? Weeks fly by and your January promises of making time for the gym are being smothered by piles of laundry and hours of overtime. At first, I began writing this to smugly inform you that it’s […]
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3 Reasons Your PR’s Plateau & How To Fix It
For CrossFit® beginners, it seems like you can hit a PR on demand. You only go to the gym 3 times per week, but you see significant improvement after almost every WOD. Next thing you know, 8 months fly by and you start to plateau. Instead of weekly PRs, they become monthly. It doesn’t end […]
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It’s Time To Stop Hitting Snooze
Focus On What You Can Control. Guess what? I haven’t hit the snooze button in nearly 12 months. Why? Because I told myself to stop hitting the snooze button. Pretty crazy, huh? I didn’t do a magical anti-snooze-button dance. I didn’t pray. I didn’t write down all of the reasons why hitting the snooze button was bad for me. I […]
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How this 37-year-old mom went from zero to multiple Bar Muscle Ups!
Too often, when people think of CrossFit® athletes, many envision freakishly athletic half-robot humans with perfect genetics and full-time jobs as worker-outers. However, it just so happens that the REAL CrossFit® community is filled with people who are fathers, mothers, lawyers, teachers, grandparents, college students, and everything in between. Today we want to share with you an […]
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Why Bob sucks at CrossFit® (and Sally doesn’t)
On scaling reps, not ROM. Meet Bob and Sally: They both really want to learn double unders. Here’s a picture of Bob the last time he tried a CrossFit® WOD with double unders: Actual picture of Bob. Bob and Sally both get to the gym at the same time, about three minutes late for the 5:30pm class at CrossFit® McAwesome. As […]
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Don’t be mad at Dave Castro: Takeaways from the 2018 CrossFit® Open.
Flashback… The Open – 18.4 Mid-workout, I turned to my judge (my husband) in a blind rage. I had flopped to the ground off the wall after stretching like a giraffe to get my 12th HSPU of the workout, my pride in shambles. “I can’t wait for the Open to be over,” I said, panting. He laughed, because […]
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CrossFit® Open 18.5 – The Complete Strategy Guide (Scaled, Masters, and Rx)
The end is here: a bittersweet moment. This CrossFit® Open season was a doozy. We saw new movements like Single Arm DB Hang Clean & Jerks, DB Squats, and Handstand Walks. We saw new standards on an old movement: Handstand Pushups. We even saw both forms of muscle ups (ring and bar) in the same […]
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