Emily Beers

Emily Beers

Emily Beers

Coach

Vancouver, Canada

Coaching

Emily Beers is a freelance health, fitness and nutrition writer and a strength and conditioning coach at MadLab School of Fitness in Vancouver, B.C.

A former college basketball player and rower, Emily became heavily involved in CrossFit after finishing her Masters degree in journalism in 2009. She competed as an individual at the 2014 CrossFit Games. Emily's work can be found at CrossFit.com, as well as at various health-related companies, including Precision Nutrition, The Whole Life Challenge, the MadLab Group, and OPEX Fitness.

All Articles By Emily Beers

Do You Really Need to Squat Below Parallel?

There’s a really important reason everyone should have or should work to regain, the ability to squat below parallel.

Are You Squat Dominant or Deadlift Dominant? Know Your Strengths

In other words, if your deadlift is 300lbs and you can back squat 255lbs or more, it’s time to work on building up your deadlift a bit.

The Keys to Upper Body Strength Training for Women

Many of us females pull and pull and still don’t have a pull-up. Let's change that.

5 Single Arm Strength Exercises to Improve Imbalance

You can’t hide anymore. One of your arms is stronger than the other.

5 Ways That CrossFit May Never Get Fixed

It's been over ten years since CrossFit shook up the fitness industry. Veterans of the affiliate business recently gathered to look to the future, celebrate the past, and party.

Is the GHD Still Useful?

Here are five exercises to fire up that glute-hamstring combo.

Include Rotational Movements In Your Training

Strengthen your muscles and joints to handle rotational movements to benefit you in sports and in life.

Lateral Movement Training

We squat, we press, we deadlift, we push, we pull—all linear movements. Rarely do we incorporate lateral movements into our training plan and yet we really should.

The Athlete's Friend, Eggs: Best Buying Practices

Fun fact in case you missed it—the only difference between brown and white eggs are that brown eggs come from chickens with brown feathers and white eggs come from chickens with white feathers.

Bulletproof Your Bum

Bum augmentation without surgery. What could be better than that?

Alternatives to the Big 3 Lifts

Train these movements regularly and you will gain strength, and avoid pain, especially if you’re new to training.

Bulletproof Your Grip Strength

Science says grip strength might even be more important than just for gaining serious pull-up prowess.