Mental Fitness

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The Open is Over – Stop Beating Yourself Up!

Leave a Comment / Mental Fitness / By Gina Sobrero

If you are one of the hundreds of thousands of people who participated in the 2020 CrossFit Open, you may be having a case of the Post-Open Blues. The Blues set in after five weeks of excitement, from the Thursday night announcements (Is it going to be another WOD with dumbbells? Do I need to …

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Can you handle not RXing a WOD?

Leave a Comment / Mental Fitness / By Marcherry Garnica

Before starting CrossFit, the only time I saw RX was on a prescription slip my doctor gave me. Now I see it on the whiteboard as the “prescribed weight” to use for the WOD and anything less is considered scaled. I remember the first time I RX’d a WOD. It was a milestone for me, for …

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Tips to Avoid Burnout and How to Enjoy Working out Again
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There comes a point in our life that we tend to get really tired and demotivated in doing trainings and burnout is definitely one of the real things we get to face as we move along CrossFit. But as a community that acts together, strong and empowered women here! We are all human and it …
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What if Training is Supposed to be Hard?
Jul 01, 2019
I’ve spent enough hours in a gym, done enough workouts that hurtle you into struggle, to hear “don’t be a pussy” thrown in there right as things start to get interesting. Look, I get it. The utterer of said statement didn’t mean “don’t be a vagina.” They didn’t even mean, “don’t be a girl, because …
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The Dirty Secret About How To Lift Heavy
Dec 10, 2019
Forgive me if I take you back to the basics, but sometimes we have to look back to be able to move forward. In exercise physiology, we have what we call the five health-related components of fitness: body composition, cardiovascular fitness, muscular strength, muscular endurance, and flexibility. These are elements that we consider the most …
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15 Problems Only Female Athletes Will Understand
Feb 13, 2020
Being a CrossFitter is like being part of a super-exclusive club. We’ve got our own language, we see one another every day, and we support one another through thick and thin. And sometimes, that super-exclusive club isn’t well understood by people in the wider world. Whether it’s your spouse, your kids, your co-workers, or your …
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3 Reasons Why Teens Are All In
Jan 02, 2020
I took some pictures at the gym the other day. Nothing unusual for CrossFit. We love to document everything, right? But these were a little different. Picture 1: A young teen. Done with his workout. Sitting on some boxes, absorbing information as three adults are in various stages of warming up, and in between reps of …
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How to Elevate Your Olympic Squat to Maximum Potential: Six Key Methods
Jun 29, 2019
Why do we squat? There are numerous answers including performance, strength, aesthetics, and/or quality of life. There are as many ways to squat as there are reasons why we squat – low bar, high bar, front, back, functional, sumo, olympic, split, etc. How we squat should then be in line with why we squat. The movement …
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Mental Fitness

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The Open is Over – Stop Beating Yourself Up!

Can you handle not RXing a WOD?

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