One thing we know about the new CrossFit Games restructuring is that we know very little. There has been a single article posted in The Morning Chalk Up that quotes Greg Glassman and presents his new ... Continue Reading
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Tragic Death of a College Athlete Demands Balancing Safety and Essential Resiliency
On June 13, 2018, the Maryland offensive lineman, Jordan McNair, died at the age of 19. McNair struggled while finishing a set of 110’s at the University of Maryland football workout and was found to have ... Continue Reading
How Running Kept Me Overweight
Imagine yourself on a hot sunny day. Your legs feel like lead. You have sweat dripping down your face. Your ears are pounding and your throat is on fire. You are dragging your feet forward, one painful ... Continue Reading
Greg Glassman Wants to Shake Up CrossFit’s Competitive Nature
Although I think there is definite credibility in the article, How Greg Glassman is Reshaping the CrossFit Games by Justin Lofranco, I reserve judgment because there are too many unknowns. Essentially, ... Continue Reading
Get Your Groove Back After Motivational Slumps
It is said that "Necessity is the mother of invention." I'm unclear about the conditions that necessitated the invention of baseball, but I'm grateful for it, nonetheless. Not everyone enjoys the game; ... Continue Reading
How to Better Your Workout Experience
For some working out is a chore or necessary pain so they can look, feel, and perform better. However, it doesn't have to be that way. In fact, it shouldn't be that way. You will get better results by ... Continue Reading
Confidence Is Stepping Up Despite Your Fears
Recently, someone asked me to do a piece on confidence. I asked, "What about it?" She responded, "How do we build it?" A tall task, particularly for one who hasn’t quite solved that problem for himself. It ... Continue Reading
HIIT versus HIRT
Your feelings don’t matter! That is, your subjective feeling of the effectiveness of a workout is not important as what science tells us is important to building an impressive base of endurance and ... Continue Reading
Overcoming Temptation
If adherence is the principal player in the triumph of our goals; temptation is its villain. If fitness programs proceeded unimpeded, “results” would be the norm. New Year’s Resolutions would become ... Continue Reading
The Benefits of Eating with Your Non-Dominant Hand
Like you and everyone you’ve ever met, I love to eat. It doesn't seem to matter if I’m preparing the food or going out to dinner, when that full, pristine plate looks up at me I experience a euphoric sense ... Continue Reading
Lifters: Take Pride in the Shared Discipline of Iron
Having been a weightlifting technical official for nearly a half century I have often found it useful to investigate the technical niceties of other sports. There is always something that can be learned by ... Continue Reading
10 Years of Exercising with a Bad Back
I remember it like it was yesterday: The day I graduated from a no-holds-barred lifter to a guy with one eye on the long game. I was deadlifting 320 pounds, which for me was an almost immovable mountain ... Continue Reading
Au Naturel: A Simplified Approach to Health
“Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.” – Albert Einstein “Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.” – Albert Einstein I am ... Continue Reading
Clean Up Your Sleep
When you exercise on a regular basis, you know how your workouts suffer on days when you don’t sleep well. It's also much easier to recover when you do sleep well. As coaches and athletes, we spend a lot ... Continue Reading
Building a Gym Family for Better or for Worse
In the last decade, the fitness industry has seen some major changes. In the last decade, the fitness industry has seen some major changes. From CrossFit to obstacle course racing to kettlebells to ... Continue Reading
The Kettlebell 6 – Teach Yourself the Fundamentals
There are 6 tutorial videos in the Kettelbell Basics Tutorial Series here. They will cover all the fundamentals of movement that you need to begin, reshape, or refresh your kettlebell practice. The videos ... Continue Reading
Simple Health Changes: The Ideal Versus the Reality
When it comes to diet and health change, humans have a bug in their operating system. Obesity spirals more and more out of control and the vast majority of efforts are futile. Anecdotal evidence as well as ... Continue Reading
Mastering Your Energy for True Health and Fitness
Brad Davidson like efficiency, audits, accountability, measurable results, and offsetting damaging habits for real results. In this Outlier podcast, he talks to me about helping people to overcome outdated ... Continue Reading
Endorphins Feel Acutely Euphoric, Just Like Opioids
Our world is rife with polarity. From the fundamental building blocks of our physical world to the abstract opinions dominating our political landscape, and the foundations of morality; polarity is woven ... Continue Reading
Burpees Never Get Old
Burpees are high intensity, involve the total body, and are excruciatingly difficult to do. They also can be an easy way to injure oneself if they haven’t a clue of how to execute them. If you’ve ... Continue Reading
Go Wild: Fight the Domestication of Fitness
You are a human—the most cunning, adaptable animal the world has ever seen. Unfortunately, our collective power has grown to such an extreme that you hardly need to contribute in ensuring your own ... Continue Reading
The 3 Core Amigos: Brace, Rotate, Resist
I have worked with many different athletes over the years. For each one that presents with persistent back pain or injury it usually comes down to missing one element of core training. Everyone knows the ... Continue Reading
Learn How to Fail
“I can’t believe I missed that rep,” said J. “You know, I worked so hard for the past year and a half and have been progressively getting better. I’ve been eating right, lifting on a linear ... Continue Reading
6 Mind and Body Tips for Personal Success
Have you ever asked yourself, why winners keep winning and losers keep losing? Personally, I started asking myself these questions at a very young age. Mostly because I wasn’t a popular kid growing ... Continue Reading
