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Nick’s Zone: Ribs and Sweets With Paleo Q Sauce
Nick Massie of PaleoNick.com brings us slow-cooked ribs and sweet potatoes. Watch as he takes a meat-and-potatoes combo and makes it Zone-worthy. “Three-block portions that are tough to beat,” Massie...
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Outside Influence
Researcher Gabriele Wulf and CrossFit trainers explain how external cues can help athletes move better. He was tired of watching Jim round his back during a deadlift. He had tried every cue in the book...
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Seven Years’ War
After starting CrossFit in 2008, Ben Smith wins the Games in 2015. July 26, Ben Smith was crowned the Fittest Man on Earth. And you might have seen it coming. Smith, a podium finisher in 2011 and 2013,...
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Sugar Bombs
Believing sports drinks are a necessary part of athletics, many athletes fail to notice substantial amounts of added sugar that can affect their health and performance. Tommy Marinoff used to live off...
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“Seven Years’ War”—Correction
An Aug. 11 article incorrectly stated Ben Smith started CrossFit in 2008. He started in 2006 and started focusing on competitions in 2008.
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Glassman on D.C. Licensure: “They Want to Control You”
In late July, CrossFit Founder and CEO Greg Glassman traveled to Washington, D.C., to discuss licensure regulations for personal trainers in the District. He met with city-council representatives and...
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Nick’s Zone: Chicken Tikka Masala With Spaghetti Squash
A lover of Indian food, Nick Massie of PaleoNick.com brings us chicken tikka masala served with spaghetti squash. “’Tikka’ means ‘chunk,’ and ‘masala’ is really just any spice mix,” Massie says. This...
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Big Soda Fires Back
American Beverage Association sues San Francisco over health-warning language on ads for sugar-sweetened beverages. It’s not the occasional 8-oz. soda that’s worrisome. It’s the fact that most people...
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Living the Dream in Chile
Some people want a huge house and fancy cars. Eduardo Aranguiz is happy living in a small loft above his affiliate, CrossFit BEF in Santiago, Chile. “I am really happy living here,” he says. “I...
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A Sticky Story
For almost 50 years, Gatorade’s marketing machine has been working to make you thirsty. You can lead a man to water, but you can’t make him drink. Add sugar, salt, artificial flavors and a good story,...
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Nick’s Zone: Chorizo Plantain Breakfast Pie
Nick Massie of PaleoNick.com brings us a spicy breakfast pie with chorizo and plantains. In a preheated cast-iron skillet, Massie starts cooking the chorizo before quartering the blackest plantains he...
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Virtuosity 10: For Life
Many athletes earned the label by coming to a crossroads in life and deciding to take a path leading away from old habits. CrossFit affiliates are there to support those choices with a community...
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The Myth of Adrenal Fatigue
Did you overwork your adrenal glands or are you getting worked by mythology and marketing? Sticking to a physical exercise routine is tiring, but the soreness and fatigue from a good workout can easily...
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August 2015 Collected Articles
The individual PDF articles published in August 2015 are collected here in a single download. The video and audio posts are not contained in the PDF. The articles included here are: “You Don’t Know...
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Fitness Under Fire
Shane Davis and Michael Livingston were stuck in careers that didn’t fulfill them. Then they made a decision to change their lives. In October 2013, the two opened CrossFit Luminary in Grand Rapids,...
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Born to Ride
Parents use an old invention to fill the gap between training wheels and the freedom of two wheels. Learning to ride a bike is an important rite of passage for a child, but it can be a challenging...
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Locking It Down: Part 2
Proponents of regulation fail to recognize the barriers to linking personal training to health care and third-party insurance payments. As detailed in “Locking It Down,” the benefits of legislated...
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Friction Burn
Relatively cheap and easily available, sleds are a versatile option for CrossFit gyms. Pulling or pushing a sled is like getting smacked with a baseball bat through a phone book: It hurts like hell but...
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Free Laughs at CrossFit Black Five
CrossFit Black Five never runs short of laughs and smiles. Former personal trainer Darren Freeman and former engineer Craig Massey head up the coaching staff at the affiliate in Manchester, England,...
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Sugar Science Solid
City of San Francisco cites science in asking court to dismiss American Beverage Association lawsuit challenging sugary-beverage ordinances. The way Jim O’Hara sees it, it’s just like the lyrics of...
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