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An Economic Approach to Becoming the Ultimate Athlete
One promise of CrossFit is that it will create “optimum physical competence” in the ten physical domains.1 But I am not sure whether this equates to having the upper-body strength of a gymnast, the ... Continue Reading
How to Succeed in Your First CrossFit Open
Participating in your first CrossFit Games Open is the ultimate learning experience, and this year’s scaled division makes the competition especially inviting for novice CrossFitters. Beginners ... Continue Reading
Don’t Get Stranded On Your Training Plateau
In sport, fitness, and even life, few words are more feared than the word plateau. The frank reality is that one day soon something in your life will get old and boring. Growth will seem to cease, ... Continue Reading
How to Avoid the Slippery Slope From Boredom to Binge Eating
Over the last few days here in the Northeast, we got slammed with a major winter storm. This storm forced most of us inside for over a 24-hour period. I realized something about myself during that ... Continue Reading
Coffee and Overtraining: Smart Strength With Charles Staley
Note: Charles is here on a weekly basis to help you cut through the B.S. and get to the bottom of the biggest questions in health and training. Post your questions via social media or in the comments ... Continue Reading
Poking the Bear: Is CrossFit HQ the Ultimate Internet Troll?
For as long as I can remember, CrossFit, Inc. has posted non-CrossFit related content on both their website and social media. Before there was such a thing as Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, there was ... Continue Reading
Shred-telligent Design: How to Ramp Up Your Major Lifts
CLICK FOR 12 WEEKS TO INCREASED MASS AND STRENGTH After hearing for years from trainers, coaches, and therapists that the dynamic warm up is an essential part of any exercise program, everyone finally ... Continue Reading
Pop Up to the Top Challenge – Week 4
Welcome to the Natural Movement section of Breaking Muscle, and week three of our first four-week training plan. It is specifically designed to achieve one of the most difficult, yet rewarding physical ... Continue Reading
The Key to Conquering the Elusive Muscle Up
Dammit… Walk around, walk around, walk around… Dammit… Walk around, walk around, walk around… Dammit… You can see where this is going. A whole lot of dammit and a whole lot of walking around. Enter ... Continue Reading
Move Beautifully: Intermediate Dance Skills and Barre Technique
The Creative Movement workout is a compilation of dance movement, bellydance, barre, pilates, kettlebells, and yoga. This workout will move through various types of programming for levels beginner to ... Continue Reading
7 Chin-Up Variations to Amp Up Your Upper Body Training
It would be easy to start an article about chin-ups by listing the muscles they work, explaining why they’re good (effective test of strength to bodyweight ratio, minimal equipment needed, they look damn ... Continue Reading
Getting Outside the Box: The Definition of Functional Strength
The following is a guest post by Katie Chasey of RXBound: How is strength defined and who defines it? Kinesiologists study muscles and have various ways to gauge muscle contraction, length, tension, and ... Continue Reading
Mio LINK (Product Review)
Breaking Muscle receives no compensation in exchange for reviews. The opinions expressed belong solely to the writer. I don’t know about you, but I find chest heart rate straps can be quite ... Continue Reading
4 Tips for Success in Your First Strongman Competition
I remember watching ESPN’s World’s Strongest Man as a child. As a teenager, I got to see the Arnold Strongman Classic and even met some of the competitors. But it wasn’t until I was a senior in college ... Continue Reading
Submission Series 902: Canada’s First Submission-Only Event
This past Friday night, I attended Submission Series 902, Canada’s first submission-only Brazilian jiu jitsu event. It took place at Glasgow Square in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, which is about 160 ... Continue Reading
2015 Grid League Prospectus: Are You In?
CrossFit punishes the specialist. Grid rewards them. It has long been an axiom in the CrossFit world that you must be fluent in all domains in order to succeed. As we saw when Olympic weightlifter ... Continue Reading
The Truth About Abdominal Training and Body Fat
Abdominal training is one of the most misunderstood endeavors of all time. Out of all the muscle groups (sans the buttocks), read any Internet or paper publication and you'll more often see at least one ... Continue Reading
The Future of Olympic Weightlifting: Ilyin vs. Kashirina
After watching the 2014 World Weightlifting Championships, I noticed two of the biggest stars of that competition were fit candidates for a compare-and-contrast treatment: Ilya Alexandrovich Ilyin (Gold, ... Continue Reading
Is Your Training Taking You Closer To Your Goals?
You may have joined a gym for the social support, but many people get lost in a community or system and can’t see their desired outcome anymore. When was the last time you stopped to evaluate what you are ... Continue Reading
How to Put 40kg on Your Deadlift in 15 Weeks
I bet that’s not the first such headline you’ve seen. But you’re not going to find a fancy new program here. The reality is that if you want to achieve a result like a forty-kilo increase, it’s going to be ... Continue Reading
Save Your Money: The 5 Worst Products for CrossFit
CrossFitters are a fairly compulsive people, are we not? Once we get bitten by the sting of CrossFit gainz, we can’t help but live the lifestyle for all the world to see. From our “For a Good Time ... Continue Reading
How to Manage Arousal Levels for Competitive Advantage
In sport psychology circles around forty years ago, there was a lot of talk about arousal levels and how they affect athletes of every level and every sport. Over the years I have done my own exploration, ... Continue Reading
Swole Nutrition 101: Building Muscle Beyond the Barbell
Click Here for the 6-Week Swole Sisters Strength Program Confession: I (Christy) can’t cook. Really. At all. In life, I am confident and adventurous, but in the kitchen I can be a bumbling ... Continue Reading
