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Lose Your Crutches
What’s holding you back, and why do you let it? The legless man in the wheelchair made a very strong point without saying anything. On the way to the gym for a workout, I was bemoaning my situation and...
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When to Fire Your Fitness Magazine
Spotted barbell biceps curls and white A-shirts, with just a hint of oil in place of sweat? Men’s Journal might have rethought the opening image for “When to Fire Your Personal Trainer: 4 Red Flags.”...
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For the Ages
“Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.” —Mark Twain For the last two years, masters and teens have performed the same workouts at the CrossFit Games, and the...
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Weightlifting’s Reassurance
Weightlifting representatives: CrossFit’s popularity behind growth and understanding of Olympic sport. Of the 14 women who train as full-time weightlifters at Waxman’s Gym outside Los Angeles, 10 of...
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CrossFit Lifeguards: The Browns
Their goals were simple. “Show up,” Marlo Brown wrote in silver-colored marker on the “goals” blackboard at Cloud 9 CrossFit in New Jersey. Her husband, Phil: “Wear my shirt.” When the couple first...
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An Open Letter to the “Met-Heads”
Are you addicted to met-cons to the detriment of overall fitness? Yes, we know you feel like you didn’t accomplish anything on deadlift day. It’s very clear you’re unhappy that you are not out of...
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Row Pro: Calories Vs. Meters
Jonathan Burns remembers the soul-sucking pain of a 2-kilometer ergometer test. His best score in his rowing prime was 5:56—an all-out effort that left him in a physical shambles, he said. “I would be...
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Break Before You're Broken
“But what if I can’t do it unbroken?” From time to time, I hear this posed as a legitimate question from athletes as they read over a workout description. They look at the movements, the loading and...
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“Row Pro: Calories Vs. Meters—Correction
An Oct. 26 article incorrectly identified Josh Crosby’s 50-minute rowing program as Shockwave. The 50-minute program is Indo-Row.
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Carbohydrate Selections: The Right Carb for the Right Job
Whole, unprocessed carbohydrate sources have significant health and performance benefits that might go unnoticed with macronutrient counting. For example, a doughnut and an orange can both provide the...
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October 2016 Collected Articles
The individual PDF articles published in October 2016 are collected here in a single download. The video and audio posts are not contained in the PDF. The articles included here are: “CrossFit...
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CrossFit Lifeguard: Brandon Justice
As a teen, Brandon Justice was told a genetic disorder would end his life sometime in his 30s. Because of CrossFit, doctors tell him he can now expect a normal lifespan. Eighteen-year-old Brandon...
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CrossFit Lifeguard: Kristi Barnes
Doctors tell a Houston police sergeant her fitness allowed her to endure invasive surgery to remove a rare tumor that threatened to kill her. Kristi Barnes typed the words into Google: “transsectional...
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Down the Hatch, Miss a Snatch?
A look at the effect of moderate alcohol consumption on fitness and health. A few years ago I stopped drinking alcohol Sunday through Thursday. I’ve never been a heavy drinker, so it wasn’t a difficult...
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MeiLin McDonald: Never Give Up
MeiLin McDonald, 17, suffered a severe concussion during a basketball game as a child. The injury caused her eyes to become permanently dilated and left her unable to focus. McDonald’s physician...
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Why Some Sweat More
Hilary Achauer investigates the science of sweat and busts the myth that fitness alone determines liquid loss. At the end of your next CrossFit class, look around. You’ll see some people soaked in...
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Chronic Disease and Medicine: Prevention Doesn’t Pay
Why your doctor only wants to see you after something has gone wrong. Dr. Stephen Schimpff calls it the paradox of American medicine. “We have really well-trained, well-educated providers. We are the...
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Programming Better Competitions
If you determine the size of the field before programming the events, you might be putting the collars on before the plates. “I’ve got 100 athletes, 10 solid judges, 5,000 square feet and nine hours to...
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As Prescribed: Santa Cruz
Welcome to weird. That’s how Santa Cruz, California, is known. For more than a decade, the sleepy Northern California beach town of 63,000 has used the same branding campaign to encompass its...
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Brian Riley: Learning to Walk Again
Brian Riley was exposed to CrossFit while serving as a Marine, but an injury overseas forced him to relearn everything. Now he’s putting his experiences as an adaptive athlete to good use at CrossFit...
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Happy to be Last and Alive
Thirty days after a stem-cell transplant, Timmon Lund joined CrossFit St. Paul. “I wanted to get healthy again.” Nine months earlier, at 33, Lund had been diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma. The cancer...
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CrossFit Kids Research Brief: Bone Density
A recent paper in the Journal of Bone and Mineral Research found that increased bone mineral content (BMC) and bone mineral density (BMD) in childhood are positively associated with time spent doing...
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November 2016 Collected Articles
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Fit at 56: Lucie Hobart
Lucie Hobart is 56 years old and says she has no idea what age means anymore. “I started CrossFit when I was 52,” she says, “but here I am four years later, so I’m 56, and I know I am the healthiest...
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Burnt Offering
On the night of Sunday, Nov. 13, a fire broke out just a few blocks from CrossFit Westmount in a three-floor commercial structure that housed two restaurants and the 1,000-member Victoria Park Health...
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Training for Wakeboarding
Rusty Malinoski has been a professional wakeboarder for more than 12 years, and while many in the sport have retired by his age, Malinoski, 32, said his CrossFit training has put him at the top of his...
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