Eating 101: How to Pack on Size
For many athletes, adding mass to their bodies can equate to moving weight a lot easier in the gym—and you'll look stronger too which doesn't hurt. Of course, resistance training with weights will give...
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...
4 Healthy Alternatives to (Cow) Milk
Got Milk? The good people of America have been bombarded with this slogan for years, which is accompanied by celebrities with the now iconic milk moustache on billboards, TV commercials and magazine advertisements. The...
Shedding Light on Food Labels
Sticking to natural, unprocessed foods will always give you an edge when it comes to deciphering food labels. For those times when you can’t avoid it, here’s a breakdown of what all those catch...
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.
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...
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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...