5 Tips to Make Wall Balls Easier for Crossfitters
1. Catching and Positioning the Ball You want to keep the ball as close to your body as possible during the entire movement. As with any weight, the further away from your body it is, the heavier it...
View ArticleChallenge Wolverine – Can You Beat Hugh Jackman’s 5000m Rowing Time?
How do you pay the piper after vacation? #ROW A post shared by Hugh Jackman (@thehughjackman) on Apr 25, 2017 at 5:56am PDT Pick up a few tips from the coach of the male and female winner of the...
View Article20 Memes that All Crossfitters Will Understand
These are some of the funniest memes around, and I guarantee that you will find a lot that relate to the common problems that all athletes, especially Crossfitters, face. Know anyone like this?...
View Article5 Tips to Improve your Chest 2 Bar Pull Ups
As opposed to kipping pull ups, chest-to-bars have a longer range of motion, bigger height to reach and therefore a higher demand for power. Strict, kipping or butterfly, to be successful with...
View Article7 Exercises Every Crossfit Beginner Needs to Master
Crossfit exercises can seem like a lot to take in at first. If you are new to the sport of fitness, or have just started, then you probably understand that it can seem a bit intimidating sometimes,...
View Article8 Myths about Crossfit that Simply Aren’t True
8. CROSSFIT IS ONLY ABOUT COMPETITION Crossfit is as competitive as you want to make it. The vast majority of Crossfitters compete against themselves and strive to succeed for their own personal...
View ArticleTalent in The Land of Fire & Ice – What Makes The Icelandic Athletes so Good?
Annie Thorisdottir, Katrin Davidsdottir, Sara Sigmundsdottir and Thuridur Helgadottir: four Icelandic ladies dominating the biggest Crossfit stages of all. However, they are not the only ‘dottirs’ to...
View Article10 Types of Crossfit Athletes you Find at the Box
Deep research into the box members’ structure showed us the diversity our sport is known for. Have a look at what types of athletes we usually found in the average box. 1. The Box Kitten Sweet, nice...
View Article5 Endurance WODs to Build a Powerful Engine for Crossfit
Rich Froning hates running. And he hasn’t performed that badly over the last years (6 CrossFit Games first place finishes and counting!). The reason your cardio performance can be improved is because...
View ArticleThe 6 Unspoken Laws of Crossfit
6. NEVER CHEAT REPS This should go without saying. Sometimes it can be easy to lose count when fatigued and in pain, and it happens, but deliberately cutting reps to speed up a score and beat a rival...
View ArticleHard and Heavy – 3 Tough Barbell Complexes Crossfitters Have to Try
Trade your on-time MetCons for some quality barbell complexes to memorize the movement, strengthen critical positions and improve your overall weightlifting skills. The definition of the term complex...
View Article7 Battle Scars Only Crossfitters Will Understand
CROSSFIT BATTLE SCARS Big injuries are incredibly frustrating, especially if they put you out of action for months, but minor injuries are part and parcel of progress within most sports. Sometimes you...
View Article10 Foods to Improve your Health, Recovery and Performance for Crossfit
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 ArticleThe Guide to Preventing and Treating Hand Rips for Crossfitters
I also shake a lot of hands. One day, after a handshake, the client asked if I’d been doing a lot of yard work. “No,” I said. “Why do you ask?” He seemed a bit embarrassed and I realized how rough my...
View ArticleThe Paradox that All Crossfit Chicks Face
So often is the focus of the “Crossfit debate” on injuries or technique (kipping vs. strict etc) that the change in attitude that has evolved within Crossfit about women’s bodies, by women themselves,...
View Article3 Ways for Crossfitters to Improve their Front Rack Mobility
Ideally your chest is up, shoulders are back and elbows are high when in this position. If your elbows are low, you will not only struggle with heavy weights, but it can also be dangerous. I say...
View ArticleTop 7 Most Powerful Icelandic Women
Iceland is best known for its remote location between the North Atlantic and the Arctic Ocean. Geologically, it is a young island, formed 20 million years ago on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. In the past...
View ArticleMichele Letendre Poses Naked and Sends A Powerful Message About Body Image
Michele Letendre: “In honour of #internationalwomensday. Johany Jutras gave me an opportunity to speak out a few weeks ago in LaPresse about the issues surrounding women’s body image. I had so much...
View ArticleNEWS – CrossFit Games Athlete Disqualified for Cheating!
TREVOR BACHMEYER BANNED AND DISQUALIFIED Here is the official statement from CrossFit: “Trevor Bachmeyer, 44, has been disqualified from the 2017 Reebok CrossFit Games competition. Bachmeyer was...
View ArticleNutrition for Crossfitters – Why Eating Enough is More Important that Eating...
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...
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