Chalk in Crossfit: How Much do we Really Need?
CHALK: HOW MUCH IS TOO MUCH? Allow me to paint a quick picture for you…You’re dead in the middle of a workout. It’s hot, it’s humid, and most of all: slippery. You head over to the chalk bucket, then...
View ArticleThe Crossfitter’s Guide to Intermittent Fasting
While it used to be reserved for only elite bodybuilders and fitness models, Intermittent Fasting provides untapped performance and health benefits (and yes, aesthetic perks, too!) that are making it...
View Article3 Ways to Improve Your Chest to Bar Pull Ups
What distinguishes the C2B Pull Up from a normal pull Up is mainly the demand of a wider range of motion and a much stronger pull. If you want to progress, here are three ways to improve your Chest to...
View Article7 Problems that Female Crossfitters Face
7. YOU ACTUALLY EAT. A LOT! While your friends sustain themselves on a granola bar, air and half a skinny frappucchino, having those muscles takes fuel. So for us female Crossfitters, ordering just a...
View ArticleAnkle Mobility: How and Why you Need to Improve Yours Today
Think about all the movements which are directly and indirectly influenced by tight ankles. By improving your ankle mobility, you are increasing the range of motion for your: Squat Clean Snatch...
View ArticleCrossfit Grunt Work: Embrace the Suck with Weighted Carries
Sometimes in the CrossFit world, we often forget the ‘constantly varied’ aspect. Athletes get caught up in the more glamorous exercises, such as the Snatch or Muscle-Up. We want to practice the moves...
View Article10 Superfoods to Boost Crossfit Performance
ARE YOU GETTING THE MOST OUT OF YOUR DIET? At some point, it simply won’t matter how talented you are, how much time and effort you put into sweating at the gym, programming your workouts and...
View ArticleHey Boxes: Open your Doors and Let the Summer in!
Here in Berlin the whole City becomes one big playground for outdoor sports as soon as spring and summer hits us. If the weather allows, my training group and friends move our workouts outside. We...
View Article7 Common Squat Mistakes and How to Fix Them
A powerful full body compound exercise, Squatting will significantly increase your mental toughness, build muscle and fortify your tendons and ligaments, moving you much closer to completing your...
View ArticleChalk in Crossfit: How Much do we Really Need?
CHALK: HOW MUCH IS TOO MUCH? Allow me to paint a quick picture for you…You’re dead in the middle of a workout. It’s hot, it’s humid, and most of all: slippery. You head over to the chalk bucket, then...
View ArticleThe Crossfitter’s Guide to Intermittent Fasting
While it used to be reserved for only elite bodybuilders and fitness models, Intermittent Fasting provides untapped performance and health benefits (and yes, aesthetic perks, too!) that are making it...
View Article5 Ways to Perfect Your Muscle Up Technique
Do you remember the first time you walked into the BOX and watched another athlete hanging on the rings? One kip, followed by a second, and then BOOM, the athlete flew up and made their ring Muscle Up...
View Article3,145926… A behind the Scenes Look at CrossFit Pi
Name of Box: CrossFit Pi Owner of the Box: Martin Uttley Crossfit Pi Exeter WHAT MAKES YOU GET UP EVERY MORNING AND RUN THE BOX? I genuinely love this stuff, being in such a positive environment day...
View ArticleDon’t be a Dope on a Rope: 3 Foot Locks to Climb like a Champ
The Rope climb is one of the oldest, and perhaps most natural exercises known to man, next to picking something up and putting it down. I’m sure cavemen even once used rope climbs (or a vine of...
View Article5 Tips to Improve your Split Jerk Technique
However, in WODs it does make sense to push/power jerk or ‘push press’, but if you ever have to face a heavy Clean and Jerk, the time you spend mastering the Split Jerk may save your life! 1. BODY...
View Article2016 Regionals Schedule: How & When to Watch in Your Time Zone
Welcome to your viewing guide for the the 2016 Regionals. Over the next three weekends, Crossfit athletes from all around the world will compete to see who advances to the CrossFit Games. This weekend...
View Article10 Pacific, South & Californian Regional Athletes to Watch this Weekend
If you need all the information about when the events are on, and at what times (in your timezone), check out our 2016 Regionals Schedule for everything you need to know about how to watch the...
View ArticleCrossfit Near Me: 7 Reasons to Find a Box & Try it Today
And the internet doesn’t help. Type ‘Crossfit’ into Google and you’re bound to be met by countless videos and images of the likes of Rich Froning, Sam Briggs and Sara Sigmundsdottir undertaking the...
View Article10 Summer Bodyweight WODs to Take your Training Outside
TAKE OUT THE GIRLS We all know them, we all love them. The benchmark girls. These bodyweight WODs can be done without any equipment – It´s just you and your body. You only need a bar or branch for...
View ArticleThe Cost of becoming a Crossfit Affiliate: Is it Worth it?
For many years the Swiss chocolate manufactory Lindt & Spruengli has, on a regular basis, been suing companies who try to sell hollowed rabbits wrapped in gold paper; its hard earned unique...
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