Take Off Your Lifters
I was maybe two weeks into CrossFit when someone told me the secret. With a background in endurance running, and some serious mobility issues because…
Category Archives: Recovery and mentality
You Hurt Your Back…Now What?
Back pain happens to almost everyone at some point in their life and it’s one of the most common injuries at any gym. Maybe it…
Traveling and Training: How to Make it Work
Travel is a great excuse if you want it to be. I work nights, weekends and spend upwards of 200 days a year away on…
Performance Care Series: Your Shoulders Aren’t Tight, They’re Weak
Your shoulder has been bothering you forever. It’s a nagging pain. Sometimes you feel it on overhead lifts, or high-volume pull-ups. So, you mobilize and mobilize…
The Whitest Dark Horse
By Sherrie Shover In 2014 and 2015, Brent Fikowski missed qualifying for the Reebok CrossFit Games by a total of three points. This year, “The…
Lessons EVERY Athlete Needs from the Rio Olympics
Watching the Olympics it’s easy to categorize every athlete as superhuman. And while all of the Rio competitors are in a class of their own,…
Robles’ Redemption
There were times Sarah Roles felt her morality and integrity were called into question, two long years of sitting on the competition sidelines waiting and…
There are No Shortcuts. Take the Long Road
Take the long road. There’s a fascination, an obsession really, in the fitness culture with ways to skip the inevitable path of progress. You watch…
Chase-ing a Dream
By Sherrie Shover It’s easy to watch The CrossFit Games and get caught up in the athletes who joyfully cross the finish line or are…
Performance Care Series: Fix Your Ankles
Mobility is great. It’s taught us to be accountable for our own body and recovery and that, with a little time, we can put ourselves…
