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…
Tag Archives: recovery
Scaling Back & Saving Dogs: Why This Games Athlete Cut Her Training in Half
The signs were there. Meg Reardon, a CrossFit Games rookie in 2016, had no energy. No desire to train, let alone compete. Still she slogged…
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…
6 Strategies to Keep Your Nutrition in Check on the Road
Traveling can be hectic, tiring and a total nutrition killer. And while sometimes it can be a welcome break (hello, vacation!) if you’re away from home a…
5 Reasons You’re Causing Pain (Without Knowing It)
Sometimes, despite our best intentions, we are our own worst enemy. That’s part of the beauty of training, pushing yourself to your absolute limits and…
Changing Course: Carleen Matthews’ Wild Ride
They slowly started to trickle in that fateful night in mid-May, hesitant, anxious and unsure. There was more than a dozen, perhaps as many as…
Foam Rolling Doesn’t Do What You Think (And Other Mobility Myths busted by Dr. Quinn Henoch)
Foam rolling or mashing with a lacrosse ball before training isn’t lengthening your muscles or breaking up adhesions. Yet, chances are you, your friends or…
How Blood Flow Restriction Training Is Making Gains in Sports Rehab and Performance
My right leg is on fire. Not a injured feeling, but the kind of screaming and aching that usually accompanies the end of a Hero…
H2O How-to: Hydration Cheat Sheet for Better Performance
You can go for weeks (seriously!?!) without food but the human body can only go days without water. That’s because it’s the most prevalent thing…
Stop taking NSAIDs (And Get Out of Pain)
If doing a competition or having a heavy training day means you’re digging in to a bottle of ibuprofen, you need to seriously re-think your…
