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  • Jan 14, 2019
  • 4 min

5 Things to Focus on Besides the Scale

For millions of people far and wide, January brings the usual new years resolutions to lose weight. But who really cares about losing...

  • May 30, 2018
  • 5 min

What It's Like to Place Last at Regionals

Tl:Dr It's still fun! At my gym, we've been fortunate to participate in the CrossFit Games Regionals every year since it's inception....

  • Apr 21, 2018
  • 4 min

Excuse Me Do You Have 5 Min?

The 2018 open is now behind us, and for 99.9% of us our season is over. Now we assume our role as the world's fittest fans and set our...

  • Mar 10, 2018
  • 3 min

You Gotta Leave Hungry

We're basically half way through The Open, and last night's announcement of 18.3 left a lot of people feeling like this: Whether you...

  • Feb 22, 2018
  • 4 min

How to Get the Most Out of The Open

As we head into the 2018 CrossFit Games Open, here are some pointers to set your mind in the right place and maximize your experience in...

  • Jan 29, 2018
  • 8 min

What's Coming Up In The Open

The Open is coming! It's the single largest community event in the world of CrossFit. Last year, upwards of 400,000 people participated...

  • Jan 23, 2018
  • 7 min

2017 Reading List

At the start of 2017, the fresh-start feeling of the New Year had me (along with most people) vowing to make some improvements to my...

  • Nov 30, 2017
  • 2 min

Control Yourself: For Better or For Worse?

This is Crystal and today she got her bar muscle ups!! This is so totally inspiring and amazing because, as many of you know, Crystal...

  • Oct 7, 2017
  • 4 min

Happiness vs Pleasure Seeking in CrossFit

I recently watched this interview with Dr. Robert Lustig promoting his new book The Hacking of the American Mind (author of Pure White...

  • Aug 25, 2017
  • 3 min

Unspoken Rules of the Tribe

The CrossFit community is unlike anything else in the world, and in my gym specifically I view it as a precious, priceless thing. The...

  • Aug 2, 2017
  • 4 min

The Princess and the PWOD

PWOD - Personal Win of the Day This is a phrase coined by my friend Iain Maclean. Captain of Team BRIO, 2017 CrossFit Games qualifier,...

  • Jul 1, 2017
  • 10 min

10 Years of Dietary Experiments

I'm a self-experimenter and I have been for most of my adult life. I enjoy tinkering with the inputs of what goes into my body and...

  • Jun 23, 2017
  • 6 min

Get To Know Your Meat Vehicle

Your body. It's the thing that transports around the essence of who you are and will do so until the day you die (or it dies, depending...

  • Jun 10, 2017
  • 3 min

3 Harsh Truths

May 4th marked the 9 year anniversary of my very first CrossFit workout. As I head into year 10, I've been reflecting on all the coaches...

  • Apr 10, 2017
  • 3 min

The Damper Debate

We've had an intense and ongoing debate between two of our coaches recently regarding the damper setting on the Concept 2 Rower for...

  • Feb 2, 2017
  • 2 min

Like Brushing Your Teeth

Someone asked me recently how I stay "motivated" to workout all the time. From inside my bubble of people who workout day in and day out...

  • Nov 10, 2014
  • 2 min

The Three AmEGOs of New CrossFitters

CrossFit about pushing yourself to work at high intensity and facing your weaknesses head on. But being bad at things in front of others...

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