Your Warmup Sucks. Here’s What to Do About It
Want to avoid injury, lift more weights and increase your skill WITHOUT adding extra time to your training sessions? Then it’s time to maximize your…
Category Archives: Recovery and mentality
You Have to Earn the Right to Move Fast
The world of CrossFit and functional fitness has largely become a “for time” domain. Whether it’s an AMRAP (as many reps as possible, an EMOM…
Is Your Period (Or Lack Of!) Keeping You From Losing Fat, Gaining Muscle & PRs?
Ladies, let’s talk hormones and periods. Chances are if you’re reading this article you’re into health and fitness. You want to look good, feel good, be…
Is Low Testosterone Keeping You From Losing Fat, Gaining Muscle & Hitting New PRs?
There is a worldwide crisis right now regarding testosterone levels in men. And that’s still probably understating things. Testosterone deficiencies are not being diagnosed —most…
“I’d Be Better If”…The Competition That’s Making You Worse
I’d be a better athlete if I had more time. Better genetics. More money. I wish I had so-and-so’s quads. Or abs. You do it.…
Chronic Inflammation: 10 Ways to Combat It & Why It’s Limiting Your Potential
Inflammation is not always the enemy! In fact, it’s necessary. Inflammation in our body takes place on a local level whenever you get a cut…
The New World of Weed: Can Medicinal Marijuana Improve Athletic Performance?
Several years ago Jason Rule’s teenage son, Elliott, took a hard hit to his back in a football game. The injury never seemed to completely…
What’s Rich Doing? Inside Froning’s Latest Venture
We’ve been telling you sleep is cool for a while now. Well, if you’re a CrossFit athlete, it just got a whole lot cooler, as four-time…
3 Ways to Own Any Workout (And Why You’re Leaving Muscle on the Table)
“I am going to shoot you up skyrocketing to the moon and let you freefall back down.” It is one of several truly terrifying things Chris…
Reality Check: When Life Gets in the Way of Fitness
When I first found CrossFit I was in my mid-20s and working from home. I had time, money, and was a single, carefree adult with…
