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Box Interview: CrossFit Blau, Spain
We spoke to the owners of the newly opened CrossFit Blau. Name: CrossFit Blau Owners: Filip ‘Biffy’ Wahlback, Marcos Benidez, Rob Pinto, Antonio Alves Address/Location: Sitges (Just outside Barcelona,...
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Crossfit and Rugby: The Importance of Developing a Well-rounded Athlete
While they are obviously different, the one thing they have in common is the importance of developing a well-rounded athlete. Crossfit’s core philosophy is constantly varied functional movements...
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Forging Elite Fitness After 40: The Daily Fix for the Aging Master Athletes
Of course you were left with the option to play pick-up basketball on the weekends or prepare yourself for a marathon, but your options to taste victory were certainly limited. The sport of Crossfit...
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Box Interview: CrossFit Varangian, Northern Ireland
He was always interested in training that would make him, as he says, “kick ass all round”. “After my service I fought in kick boxing and trained MMA for a few years so I was always attracted to...
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Chris Hinshaw: The Endurance Engineer of Champions
You may not be familiar with his name, but you will be familiar with his work. In 2012, Jason Khalipa finished 40th in every CrossFit Games endurance event. In 2013, Khalipa had 3 first place finishes...
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3 Tips Towards a More Powerful Iliopsoas
The iliopsoas is a group muscle: it is comprised of the psoas major, psoas minor and the iliacus. It’s attached along the lower spine of the back and comes down in front of the hips over the rim of the...
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An Open Letter to All Competition Organisers (in Europe and Beyond)
Dear competition organisers, I am an active Master athlete, 49 years old, and a box owner at CrossFit Blau, Spain. Like many masters and non-master athletes, I take pride in participating at the...
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Stories of Recovery: Turning Obstacles into Opportunities
A few years prior, I had taken a dare and tried to jump from an elevated dock, across a span of water onto the beach. I landed on my feet (yeah!) but with such force and with my legs stretched out in...
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Performance Booster for Functional Sports: WOD CRUSHER Fireworks
Fireworks is designed with the science of functional sport performance enhancement in mind. It features great solubility and sensational taste. The formula was put together without Creatine so that the...
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10 Fitness Lessons With a Movement and Pain-Relief Expert Jeremy McCann
Jeremy is also one of our regular contributors on topics of health, movement and pain-free living. He runs a clinic Range of Motion where he helps Crossfitters perfect their movement in a way that any...
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Athletes of All Levels Speak Up: Why Do We Compete in Crossfit
In real life, they are regular but physically talented people with lots of training, healthy food, determination, passion and competition spirit. Actually, The CrossFit Games are the ultimate dream of...
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What Elite Athletes Eat: 13 Meals From Famous CrossFit Games Competitors
No one eats before food gets “Instagramed” or how nowadays social media can give you a quick insight into CrossFit Games athletes’ diets. A few years ago it was safe to assume Crossfit athletes eat...
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8 Tips To Prepare For a Crossfit Competition
In this article I will offer my personal best-of list with useful and easy tips, which will make your Crossfit competition experience more successful. In my opinion “successful” is not defined by the...
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Crossfit for Beginners: 5 Steps To Feel Comfortable At Your New Box
If you’re new to Crossfit and serious about getting comfortable at your box here are 5 shortcuts to feel at “home” as soon as you’ll get your foot into the door. 1. Engage with people It doesn’t matter...
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Healthy Recipe: Mexican BBQ Pulled Chicken Quesadillas
BBQ pulled chicken (slow cooker recipe): Turn on your slow cooker (high). Ingredients for the filling: fills 5 wraps. Per wrap: Kcal: 194 Protein: 23.4g Fats: 10.2g Carbs: 16.8g 2 large chicken...
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Performance Over Appearance – A Way Out of The Addiction and Eating Disorder
Today the strength of my body fascinates me. But back in the days, my biggest concern was what other people saw. My performance comes first. To say this out loud and actually believe it – this haven’t...
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Say It With Me Crossfit NaySayers, “Mo – di – fy”
The completely WODphobic person who tells you that you shouldn’t be doing Crossfit, it’s bad for you, it’s dangerous, it’s downright crazy! I have just one word for them: modify. Sometimes I have two...
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No Barbells: Top 10 Bodyweight Crossfit Workouts
Chelsea proved that a powerful cardiorespiratory stimulus could be generated through simple calisthenic workouts. – from CrossFit Journal, 2006 See the list of 10 bodyweight Crossfit workouts: 1. Hero...
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Úna Houlihan: “Here I am Nearly 40, Crossfitting, Lifting and Being a Role...
My family was fantastic and I was brought up believing I could do anything. So I did judo, horse riding, swimming, long distance running and athletics. At the age of 18 I met Brian, the love of my life...
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Haraldur’s Story: Finding Crossfit in Iceland
Besides the WOD, I now also know the meaning of AMRAP, MetCon, EMOM. You know what? I found a new passion – Crossfit. The initial purpose of me walking into the Crossfit box was to find out if the...
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