CrossFit Trainer Fined For Talking About Nutrition
It’s undeniable that nutrition is one of the most important aspects of health and fitness. With so much contradicting information on what foods we should be putting into our bodies, many people often turn...
Preventing Rips: Keeping Your Hands Intact to WOD Another Day
Of all the preventable injuries that occur in CrossFit, the most frustrating might be hand tearing. You know it’ll heal. You don’t need rehab or therapy, but it’s enough to wipe out most gymnastics...
Tainted Supplements: Who’s to Blame, and How to Prevent Getting Popped
While most of us are lucky to count our macros or calories consistently, CrossFit athletes must be hyperaware of everything passing their lips. The smallest fraction of any CrossFit-banned substance could be the difference...
The More Fitness the Better: Large Study Shows Elite Cardiorespiratory Performers Live Longer
It turns out, cardiorespiratory fitness is pretty important if you plan on living a long life. Last week, the Cleveland Clinic released study results that showed increased cardiorespiratory fitness was directly associated with reduced...
How to Strengthen Your Pelvic Floor – No Kegels Here
Announce double-unders in a WOD and you’ll see every mom in class head straight for the bathroom. While those who have been through childbirth are often the culprits of incontinence during a workout, it...
5 Reasons Your Lower Back Hurts (And How To Fix It)
You hardly ever think about your lower back until it’s in pain: Then it’s all you can think about. Chronic sedentary lifestyles coupled with small, but potentially detrimental, poor movements can wreak havoc on...
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Wrist Mobility: Why It’s Important + 8 Exercises to Improve It
How’s your front rack position? Do you wince with pain in your wrists when the barbell forces them back, swing a kettlebell overhead, or...
The Benefits of Training with a Weight Vest
‘Body Armor’ is the original name for the now famous Memorial Day WOD, ‘MURPH’. The workout is named after Navy Lieutenant Michael Murphy, was killed...
13 CrossFit Gym Etiquette Rules You Need to Know
Certain arenas require you to behave in a respectable manner. You wear the appropriate work attire because you are a professional and you are...
6 Tips to Develop the Overhead Squat
The overhead squat (OH squat) is, for many CrossFitters—one of the most vexing movements in the CrossFit repertoire. It exposes weaknesses in flexibility, balance,...
What’s in a thruster? Plus, a few tips to do them more efficiently
If there’s one exercise that’s synonymous with CrossFit, it’s probably the thruster. Heck, the term thruster was first coined by CrossFit. Ask 4x Games...
Ankle Mobility: Why it’s important and how to improve it
When we think of mobility in CrossFit, we usually focus on our shoulders, traps, IT band, quadriceps—pretty much the entire posterior chain (which includes...