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One of my favorite movies of all time is A Christmas Story. One of the scenes involves Ralphie waiting in line at the mall to see Santa so that he can give him his wish list - a Red Ryder, carbine action, ... Continue Reading

Some months ago now I severed my last tie with CrossFit. In truth, I haven’t done a CrossFit workout in years. For seven years I worked as the Program Director of CrossFit Los Angeles. A few ... Continue Reading

I guess I’m an awfully good sponge. I absorb ideas from every course I can, and put them to practical use. Then I improve them until they become of some value. The ideas which I use are mostly the ideas of ... Continue Reading

I am going to go out on a limb here. I believe that the National Pro Fitness League will be a remarkable success. Call it a hunch, call it intuition, but I am willing to state with hubristic abandon that ... Continue Reading

Last week I shared my story of the creation of the Max Effort Black Box (MEBB). But truth be told, I learned quickly that while the three-on-one-off MEBB rotation worked well for the independent contractor ... Continue Reading

This is in no way meant to criticize a young lady by the name of Denisse Tame from CrossFit Alpha in the Latin American Region. She’s a fine athlete I am sure, and a nice person. But Denise had the ... Continue Reading

Back in 2002 I was one year into altering my professional path. I had struggled in a 100% one-on-one private training model and decided to move some of my focus to group training. One day while surfing ... Continue Reading

When CrossFit Open workout 14.3 was announced, a collective “WTF?” seemed to explode through the community. From the announcement to the workout itself there were a variety of perplexing moments, and here, ... Continue Reading

In 1947, Brooklyn Dodgers general manager Branch Rickey signed Jackie Robinson to a baseball contract with that team, thus effectively breaking baseball’s color barrier. In 1947, Brooklyn ... Continue Reading

I got back to my roots last weekend. I had the opportunity to fly to Allen, Texas to put on a seminar called Taking CrossFit to the Next Level for the great people at CrossFit Ammo. While I was there, I ... Continue Reading

On February 4, 2014, The Biggest Loser contestant Rachel Frederickson stepped out onto the stage of the show’s finale, to the collective gasps of the nation. She’d gone from an obese 260lbs, to a gaunt, ... Continue Reading

When I teach college courses, I am always the happiest when I find students who are chasing knowledge rather than chasing a grade. Many students’ questions relate to how they can do better on the test, ... Continue Reading

I surrender. No more talk of “Is CrossFit dangerous?” We’ve all squeezed the juice out of the lemon. The dirty little secret of rhabdo, the ACSM study, the online survey. I surrender. No more ... Continue Reading

There is something primal in the will to win. The cellular-level drive to emerge from any sort of competition as the victor is an innate desire that human beings can scarcely understand. We’ve been ... Continue Reading

As some of you may or may not know, I travel about this blue and green sphere of ours spreading whatever knowledge and information I can through the CrossFit Gymnastics certification. Recently I crunched ... Continue Reading

It's that time of year again. Thoughts are turning to the impending CrossFit Games Open. Some will be entering for the first time with their eyes wide open. Others will be going in as seasoned competitors, ... Continue Reading

An Update on the Kevin Ogar Story In the interest of factual integrity, I would like to revisit last week’s article about Kevin Ogar’s accident. In it, I said this: According to spectator accounts, ... Continue Reading

As the CrossFit Open approaches, more CrossFit trainers will be taking the CrossFit judges course to become certified judges. Even though the course gives you a basic blueprint, nothing can outweigh actual ... Continue Reading

There is a link at the end of this article that will lead you to a site where you can donate to Kevin’s medical fund. Kevin Ogar of CrossFit Unbroken is paralyzed from the waist down. He was ... Continue Reading

Lately I have noticed an increased usage of bands in CrossFit when it comes to movement progressions. There are all colors of these bands, usually ranging in both size and color from blue, green, purple, ... Continue Reading

The first installment in this series discussed the early life cycle of the CrossFitter: first, the honeymoon phase, where CrossFit is magic; then, the plateau, where your gains begin to level off. If you ... Continue Reading

Today you can find two types of CrossFit. One is that awesome exercise routine we all fell in love with that consists of functional movements done at high intensity for the betterment of our health. The ... Continue Reading

Note: This article dovetails into the excellent article written by Mark Rippetoe "CrossFit – The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly," where he expertly lays out some of the issues about CrossFit, specifically ... Continue Reading