The CrossFit Open takes place over five weeks between February 23 and March 27 in 2017. If you are over 14 years of age you can compete by just signing up online at CrossFit's Games site. I believe ... Continue Reading
The Myth of Flexibility and Yoga
One of the most common notions people share with me when they learn I teach yoga is that they think they must be flexible to do it. It seems the pervasive cultural model of a skinny girl in over-priced ... Continue Reading
The Quick Start Guide for Beginning Weightlifting
My background is as a founder of a CrossFit gym so, obviously I look at weightlifting with a slightly different perspective than someone preparing to compete in an Olympic weightlifting competition. These ... Continue Reading
Understanding Gut Microbiomes
It's amazing how much activity takes place in your gut. It is in your digestive system that the largest war on bacteria is waged, and a lot of your immune activity is reliant upon the bacteria living in ... Continue Reading
Public Health Campaign Reduces Sugary Drink Consumption
There's no doubt about it: sugary drinks are the worst enemy of fitness. Not even a high-fat diet can approach the damage sugar-rich foods can do to your body. Excessive sugar intake can cause health ... Continue Reading
The Next Evolution of Fitness Technology
Once in a while, technology appears to lap itself and develop much faster than we are able to make use of it. Athletes have witnessed a dazzling pace of technological innovation that has yet to be ... Continue Reading
Life Ain’t Easy: Train Anyway
Most of us spent a huge portion of our childhood being told to do things we didn’t want to do. We had to be told every day to get out of bed, get ready for school, eat our vegetables, do our homework, ... Continue Reading
Movement Medicine: Breaking Down the Turkish Get Up
“Everyone loves the Turkish get up. Except me. But they are so darn good for me I do them anyway. I do 20 per week usually with my snatch weight bell but sometimes just with a shoe… the Turkish get up is ... Continue Reading
Get Ready for Full Throttle: The Cal Poly Hip Flow
In the fall quarter of 2015, Assistant Strength and Conditioning Coach Chris White designed a flow sequence for our athletes here at Cal Poly. This 5-6 minute sequence quickly became the catalyst for some ... Continue Reading
There Are No Tricks in Fitness
We all love to talk about programming. The term evokes a sense of tapping into our own genetic code and using some secret program (“One weird trick!”) to unlock our hidden genetic potential. We get caught ... Continue Reading
The Truth About Women’s Training
Writing an article aimed at women is new territory for me. I never saw a need to write about training in a different format for females. I write training articles for humans. And last time I looked, women ... Continue Reading
Social Media and the Climate of Fitness
It’s become fashionable, almost expected, to poke fun at the #fitspiration crowd. The messages are counterproductive, the status updates reek of insecurity, the list goes on. It’s become fashionable, ... Continue Reading
Why We Know, But Don’t Do
We all know lots of stuff. For example, most of us know we really should listen to our mothers and eat our veggies (solid advice, mom). We know that we should brush our teeth. We should exercise regularly ... Continue Reading
Make Turkish Get Ups Your Best Movement
I love Turkish get ups, but most athletes and trainees I speak to hold a completely contrary sentiment. I’m not here to tell you that your training is incomplete without them, but I know of no better tool ... Continue Reading
How Sports Performance Can Fix Functional Training
Almost every one of the world’s leading car manufacturers—from Ferrari and Ford to McLaren and Mazda—has a racing division; a team of designers and engineers dedicated to building cars most of us will ... Continue Reading
PE: Literacy For The Body
The dawn breaks on cool, misty morning. Awakened by hunger, a young man gathers his tribe. The winter is coming and they must hunt for boar meat and hides. He instructs the tribe’s children to gather nuts ... Continue Reading
You Aren’t as Fragile as You Think
There’s an epidemic of articles out there crowing about the “5 Exercises You Should Never Do,” or warning you about the “10 Most Dangerous Exercises.” The nonsensical assumption at the heart of each is ... Continue Reading
Fitness and Fatherhood: Natural Movement for Superhero Dads
Whether planned or unplanned, becoming a parent is one of the most life-changing events that can happen to a person. Recently, I’ve been thinking about all the transitions that take place for men becoming ... Continue Reading
Sports Do Not Equal Health
This particular subject is not one that is often touched upon, even though it is one of the more popular misconceptions in American culture. It is the belief that sports participation somehow leads to ... Continue Reading
Why Modern Running Shoes Are Terrible
‘The shape of the foot conforms to that of the shoe’ -Dr. Phil Hoffman, 19051 Modern footwear is largely focused on style, rather than the function of the human foot. Choice of shoe is a hugely important ... Continue Reading
Gift Ideas for Parkour Athletes
Welcome to cold days and long nights. For many of us, that signals a retreat to the training space of our local parkour gym. For one jolly fellow at least, that means braving the elements, and dashing ... Continue Reading
A Heroic Nation’s P.E. Curriculum
Our nation’s greatest need is so simple it would almost hit you over the head. Epidemic levels of obesity and disease from sedentary lifestyles have gone hand in hand with a consistent trend towards less ... Continue Reading
How Diet Can Influence Your DNA
A recent study[1] published by the journal Genome Biology was conducted on two groups of parasites, which showed differences in DNA sequences that could be attributed to the composition of ... Continue Reading
Change Starts With Choice
I want to talk about choice, and what that means not only for your fitness and your body, but for your life. Let’s start with the hard truth that your body, right now, is a result of past choices ... Continue Reading
