I’ve been doing CrossFit for 11 years, and coaching for 4 years. This has given me ample opportunity to make plenty of mistakes, both in my own programming, and coaching other athletes. When I think back on them, and other mistakes that I see CrossFitters make, I find they fall into three categories. Keep reading …
I’m not a fan of winter. After living in Colorado as a child, and having Raynaud’s Syndrome, I would be happy never living where it snows again. Somewhere where it’s 70 degrees all year round sounds great to me. . . Alas, I live in the central part of the US, and like many other …
The muscle up…the Moby Dick of Crossfit movements that most Crossfitters have on their bucket list. What is so magical about muscle ups that everyone feels the need to get just even one? It is the fact it literally looks so beautiful when executed or the fact you know it takes so much determination to …
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There’s nothing quite as painful as the whip lashing of an uncompleted double under. As the cable cord comes rocketing around your body and slashes into your shins, you get the overwhelming urge to scream out expletives…and you do. Sometimes a good whipping deserves the f-bomb. A lot of people struggle with double unders and …
It doesn’t matter what the WOD is, there tends to be at least one thing that trips us up, and makes us struggle. It could be anything really; exercising the proper kipping technique, avoiding the godawful whiplash from a double under gone wrong, or even hitting the wall ball target and avoiding another blasted “No …
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