How to Unlock the Entire Potential of Your Cardiovascular System
A more developed Cardiovascular System will allow any athlete to go harder for longer, flush lactic acid from their muscles more efficiently, deliver a more effective and constant supply of oxygen to...
View ArticleCrossFit Senec: Elite Fitness in a Small Town in Slovakia
Name of Box: CrossFit Senec Owner of the Box: Róbert Rybanský Which values, and philosophies form the base for your work? Since I opened my first gym, a lot of everything had changed. My vision was to...
View Article5 Worrying Signs of Vitamin C Deficiency
Vitamin C, also known as L-ascorbic acid, is a water-soluble vitamin that is naturally present in some foods, added to others, and available as a dietary supplement. Humans, unlike most animals, are...
View Article5 Training Tips to Perfect your Double Under Technique BEFORE The CrossFit®...
The Double Under has been popularised through CrossFit®, but of course it’s been around a lot longer. As long as top athletes and fighters have been using jump ropes in their training—which has been...
View ArticleWODProof Partners with 12 Sanctionals in Effort to Legitimise Online...
Hoping to help legitimize the scoring system for online qualifiers and prevent athletes from “playing the system,” WODProof has teamed up with 12 Sanctionals for the upcoming season. Now, videos of...
View ArticleHow to Build Muscle and Strength: German Volume Training
With this series on how to build muscle and strength, you will learn which program is right for you, what to eat and how to reach your athletic goals: welcome to German Volume Training. The first...
View ArticleWhy CrossFit Athletes Need to do More Triplanar Training
Triplanar training is when we use movements in all three planes of motion. These planes are saggital (forward/backward), frontal (left/right, sometimes called coronal) and transverse (rotation)....
View ArticleHow to Build Muscle and Strength: The 5 x 5 Program
With this series on how to build muscle and strength, you will learn which program is right for you, what to eat and how to reach your athletic goals. The first vital point is nutrition. Without a...
View ArticlePunishing Kettlebell Workout for CrossFit Athletes (with Gorilla Cleans)
Believe it or not, there’s still a whole new world of exercises, deeply tucked away in the dark dungeons of the kettlebell world. I’m here to open up the cracks, and expose you to some of the...
View ArticlePerspectives on Strength: The Magic of Daily Squatting
Furthermore, from adding some form of Squatting to every session I went injury free for the first time in years. I also managed to cut fat, dropped a couple of inches around my waist (although now my...
View ArticleCrossfit Open Nutrition – Why Eating Enough is More Important than Eating Clean
Let me start by saying that I’m not advocating you to avoid eating clean. There is however a growing issue with the clean eating culture, and a confusion of who it’s targeted at and how to tackle your...
View ArticleCrossFit in Croatia – A Setup Worth of Kings and Queens
Written by Igor Jelčić. Croatia is a perfect combination of history and natural beauty; no wonder producers of world-famous TV show Game of Thrones decided to pick Croatia for their setup. Despite...
View ArticlePro Tips to Improve your Split Jerk Technique
In WODs we often see a preference of push/power jerk or even a “push press” over split jerks. If you ever have to face a heavy clean and jerk, the time put into mastering the split jerk may help you...
View ArticleBodybuilding Exercises for General Conditioning: Part I – Presses
The Sport of bodybuilding was popularized in the 1960s thanks to the muscular physiques of Arnold Schwarzenegger, Franco Columbu, Dave Draper, later Lee Haney, Ronnie Coleman or Kevin Levrone. People...
View ArticleLesser Known Mobility Exercises Every CrossFit Athlete Should Utilise
What if there was a mobility sequence that challenged your end range strength and was something you could measure progress in? Sound more interesting than that 5 min hip flexor stretch as you stare at...
View ArticleCROSSFIT TIPS: How to Improve your Overhead Squat Mobility
Probably one of the biggest roadblocks that people that who aren’t naturally flexible run into first is overhead squat mobility. I have seen crazy strong people being humbled by this movement and not...
View ArticleInternational Online Qualifier: WOD 3 Announced!
Now on its second week, the third workout for the International Online Qualifier – a coalition between four Sanctionals allowing athletes to complete a single qualifier for all – has been released. The...
View ArticleRegistration for the 2019/2020 CrossFit Open Goes Live!
Registration for the 2020 Open is live. The dates for the 2019-2020 Open will begin on Thursday, October 10th when the first workout will be released. It will take the usual form of 5 workouts spread...
View ArticleAmanda Barnhart Posts Important Message about Having Unrealistic Body Image...
Amanda Barnhart finished 7th at the 2019 CrossFit Games. She has continually risen from 272nd in 2017 to 27th last year. Despite an ankle injury, she put on an impressive display of fitness and...
View ArticleCrossFit Bodyweight Workouts Every Athlete should Try
Crossfit Bodyweight Workouts – Chelsea proved that a powerful cardiorespiratory stimulus could be generated through simple calisthenic workouts. – from CrossFit Journal, 2006 See the list of 10...
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