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...
Does Your Post Workout Protein Shake Need More Carbs?
Most of us have probably heard about the benefits of drinking chocolate milk post-workout. A lot of health conscious individuals, despite knowing that a beverage like chocolate milk can be beneficial for recovery, are...
Breaking Down the Zone Diet
The Zone Diet remains one of the most misunderstood concepts in nutrition. The best way to understand the Zone Diet is that it represents a blueprint for putting together food ingredients to generate the best possible hormonal responses to control inflammation.
The Paleo Diet, The Zone and Optimal Training Nutrition, Part 2
In Part 1 of this series, I laid out some foundations for choosing how to eat and how to approach your quest for better health and performance through diet. In Part 2 here, I’ll...
5 Reasons to Drink More Water
When astronomers look for life in our solar system and beyond, the unifying factor that generates the most interest and excitement is the potential presence of water. Where there is water, there might just...
Is Kre-Alkalyn Creatine Better? A Look at Swolverine’s Kre-Alkalyn
The use of nutritional supplements is well established within multiple athletic and fitness fields. For athletes seeking to gain an edge in their performance and recovery, the wide array of supplements on the market...
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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...
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Free Preview: Inside the Cole Sager Issue
He's one of the fiercest, most humble competitors you'll find at the CrossFit Games. In this issue, get to know the 6x CrossFit Games athlete, Cole Sager. Also in this issue: how to incorporate...