Dear High School Dori, Do not go to the YMCA and try to out-bench every person every day, you’ll get tendonitis in your shoulder and neck and it will hurt you to this day. Instead, ask a professional to train you, teach you and guide you. Go find a CrossFit gym and start learning right…
By Coach Chris When I first heard of CrossFit back in 2007, I stalked main site (CrossFit.com) for a month. Every day they would release the workout and I would go look at their movement library to see what the heck a “thruster” was or these crazy “kipping” pull-ups. I found some message boards where people…
You just finished 5 grueling workouts that have highlighted your strengths and exposed your weaknesses. You’ve cheered until your voice was hoarse and have given more fist bumps in 5 weeks than you have all year. So what’s next? What do you do now that all the excitement is done and everyone resumes their routine of normal daily WODs? First…
We are honored to have Lisa as our April Member of the Month. Did you know it’s because of Lisa that we’re located in Ambler Yards?! She was driving by the complex and noticed the real estate sign, so she told Coach Chris to look into it.You might not know that Lisa is also responsible…
As the weather gets warmer, check out these tips to get outside and make the most of your fitness and the spring time! Try to get people out and about! One of the greatest things about countries abroad is that every night and day people are walking around, talking to neighbors and kids are playing. It is…
A lot of athletes will look to give each WOD their all and that’s great, but sometimes going 100 percent is the wrong strategy. Let’s look at a workout we had awhile ago which was 30 hang squat snatches and 30 TTB. The prescribed weight was fairly heavy 135/95. Most people would see the workout…
If you do CrossFit for long enough, you’ll eventually do enough reps to earn yourself a blister or a rip. The multitude of lightweight cleans or snatches or even lots of toes-to-bar and pull-ups can be pretty punishing on an athlete’s hands. Here are a few tips, techniques, and products you can use to make your hands…
As a business owner, one of the biggest lessons I’ve learned (and am still learning) is to outsource tasks and duties. While I like to think I can do it all, there are only so many hours in the day. Coaching five classes a day, marketing, content creation, business development, bookkeeping, programming, membership retention, staff…
In Scaling/Modifying Workouts part 1, we started with WHY you should scale and modify to your current ability. Now we get down to brass tacks – HOW and WHEN to modify. WHEN SHOULD I SCALE? NEW/UNFAMILIAR MOVEMENT If you are unfamiliar with clean and jerks, you should scale the weight to get the mechanics and…
Even before we opened our doors, Brad was a rare Founding Member who didn’t already know us, but trusted us enough to join sight unseen. He came in working through a shoulder injury, but we had him scale appropriately and eventually got it back to working condition. (Listen to Brad’s podcast about overcoming injury here)…
