6 Killer Workouts With Thrusters: Prepare To Fail
When you feel like you’ve finally advanced to the next level and improved your performance, somebody puts together a workout that proves you wrong: thrusters with something else. Especially push-pull...
View ArticleAddicted to the Box? Exercise Dependence or Good ol’ Dedication
And nothing wrong with a good solid Crossfit obsession, we might say. Many of us look back on the pre-Crossfit days as the dark, fat, misguided times before we realized how much more we could become,...
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Healthy Valentine’s Sweets: Paleo Caramel Pecan Chocolates
These chocolates will definitely win him over! They are super easy to make and taste so good, you may have people queuing up for a date with you this Valentine’s day! Ingredients: Chocolate (the easy...
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Teenage Girls Who Lift: Sibéal and Saoirse Houlihan
Sibéal and Saoirse Houlihan are not your average teenage girls. In my all girl school especially the use of weights is not advised because “It’s bad for girls” and “It stunts growth” and my all time...
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Raw Natural Ability: Balancing MetCons and Big Lifts
Can someone who comes from a predominantly met-con background still make sizeable gains on major lifts? Head coach at Cambridge-based CrossFit RNA Ben Silva-Weatherley thinks so, as long as the right...
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7 Reasons Why Crossfitters Hate Wall Balls
Thrusters, push presses and wall balls could all possibly fit into the same category: metabolic, mental conditioning! Here are seven reasons why we don’t always like them. 1. From Beginners to Pros: no...
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Box Chat With Kristóf Horváth: Is He The Next Lacee Kovács?
Kristóf is just one of the youngsters evolving into the European scene. This 20-year old from CrossFit Duna placed 14th at last year’s German Throwdown, while his 17 year-old sister Laura finished 17th...
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9 Things I Learned Being a Crossfit Mom
You’d think working out after pregnancy on a regular basis would be pretentiously easy because… Well gym-life, right? I wanted to be just like those Crossfit-moms on Facebook, fitting an active...
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Eating Healthy and Changing Your Body: Restriction is Not an Answer
When it comes to eating right I had to learn a lot. I started working out in early 2003 and tried several things: everything from simple biking to swimming, bodyweight HIIT, Crossfit, Powerlifting and...
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10 Mental Stages of a Crossfit MetCon Workout
Metabolic conditioning, whether is it just about rowing intervals or different gymnastic-weightlifting complexes on time, makes you crawl, sometimes throw up and always wanting more. Each workout...
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Amanda Turner: “When I Do Crossfit I Don’t Feel Trapped In My Body”
It was a Sunday afternoon when Amanda, together with a family friend tried out a class, thinking this will be her first and last, at least until CrossFit CSE’s coach Meg Cannon asked what her goals...
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How to Attract Crossfitters to do Drop-In Classes: 4 Tips
A box can always use money, and I can always use a workout,” said John. “When I’m travelling, I don’t want to sit in my hotel room or use the small hotel gym. I like to check out local CrossFit gyms. ~...
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Box Chat: Simon Nybacka from CrossFit Nordic
I had the opportunity to meet two of those athletes, Sisi Forsstedt and Simon Nybacka. Sisi is a female master athlete from Sweden who placed 4th at the Athlete Games 2015. Simon is a 24-year-old who...
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3 Mind Tricks Successful CrossFit Open Athletes Do
The 2015 Open workouts will inevitably expose some weaknesses, lead to some PRs and identify the fittest athletes in the new Super Regions. Let’s look at some quick mind tricks that can help us...
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Road to The CrossFit Games 2015: Open Workouts European Times, Deadlines and...
For the next five weeks our lives will revolve around planning, plotting and scheduling upcoming workouts. Every week the WOD will be announced on Thursday at 5 pm Pacific Time. You’ll have four days...
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Rich Froning’s Reebok CrossFit Compete 6:14 shoes
Photo credit: Reebok When you’ve already decided to end with the gym shoes shopping obsession, there comes a new need-to-have item on the market. Shoes that were made to compete in. And they are not...
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10 Prep Tips for the CrossFit Open with Master Games athlete Erwin van Beek
Open is upon us, so it is time to start thinking what strategy would fit best for the announced workout. Before 15.1 was released we spoke to Erwin about general preps he does for the Open: as an...
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2015 with Regionals athlete Laura Faulkner
Her team (Team CrossFit Bath) came 6th at the European Regionals in Copenhagen in 2014, and after individually finishing 16th in the Open that same year, she has big goals for 2015. 1. You finished in...
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Post 15.1 Open WOD meal: Primal Pizza
With us all following strict regimes, pizza brings a sense of fun as it’s usually a meal you can share with family or friends. Recreating a recipe can be pretty tough, there is always some doubt that...
View ArticleCrossFit Open 15.1 Recap: Winners, Surprises and Rumours
The first Open workout started in Canton, Massachusetts with Rich Froning and Mat Fraser. 15.1 was a 2-part event with a 9-minute AMRAP consisting of toes to bars, deadlifts and snatches, followed by a...
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