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CrossFit Tumuora: Fitness Versus Fatness on the Cook Islands
With owner Olivia Heather and head coach Geoff Halston at the helm, CrossFit Tumuora has been transforming the Cook Islands community through its emphasis on an active lifestyle and good nutrition...
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When the Skip Hits the Fan
Try changing your perspective to connect with athletes who are struggling with a movement. “Do something different. Take off one shoe. Try chewing gum. Maybe lose your underwear for the next set. Or...
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Do It Till You’re Dead
Feel free to ignore health warnings. You have every right to do so. My dad died in 2011, taken peacefully while he slept. That’s what the obituary said anyway. If I’d had it my way, he would have gone...
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With a Grain of Salt
Sponsored “science” and constantly changing nutrition guidelines force people to carefully evaluate what they put in their bodies. Nutrition is complicated. Many scientific studies either proclaim a...
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Prescribe What to Whom—and Why?
Russell Berger attends Exercise Is Medicine credential workshop and discovers gaping holes in methodology. There are two distinct fronts in the war between CrossFit and chronic disease. The first—and...
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A Deft Dose of Volume
More isn’t always better: James Hobart explains how certain experienced athletes can add training volume to increase work capacity. CrossFit programming thrives upon intensity, not volume. This focus...
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Potential
In “Potential,” Patrick Cummings presents his poetic meditations on how women in CrossFit are transforming the definitions of strength and femininity, opening up new possibilities for women in...
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For Whom the ’Bells Toll
CrossFit Founder Greg Glassman: “Nobody’s doin’ enough with dumbbells.” It makes workouts both easier and harder, movements better and worse, and Fran times go down and up. It is the dumbbell—the...
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Strength and Conditions
The NCAA says its regulation for strength coaches is aimed at benefiting and protecting athletes. Others say the motives aren’t so noble. When the National Collegiate Athletic Association passed...
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Candy Kids
Failed by their schools, kids rely on parents and coaches to teach them about proper nutrition. Toward the end of our cross-country flight from San Diego, California, to the Northeast, the first-class...
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The Sugary Albatross
The “energy balance” is a myth. You can’t outwork a bad diet. Jason Mathews almost lost his pull-up. Though Mathews has trained at CrossFit Armoury for the past three years, a desk job in sales...
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The CrossFit Kitchen: Bacon-Crusted Breakfast Pizza With Broccoli
This time on The CrossFit Kitchen, Nick Massie of PaleoNick.com figures out the only way to make pizza better: using crispy bacon as the crust. This breakfast pizza takes bacon and eggs to a whole new...
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Visiting Ours
When drop-ins arrive at your gym, coaches recommend a friendly, inquisitive approach for best results. Ask questions. Lots of questions. When it comes to coaching strangers, that’s the advice from...
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Warm-Up With Chris Hinshaw
Chris Hinshaw is a professional triathlete, renowned endurance coach and instructor for the CrossFit Aerobic Capacity Course. At Tennessee Tech, Hinshaw leads a group of elite CrossFit Games...
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The Story of Nuno Costa
This video “is a complex story about personal transformation, self-discovery and how one man’s journey to find a sense of belonging would in essence give him purpose,” producer Torin Simpson explains....
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Weight a Second: Balance and the Bar
Mike Burgener offers quick tips to correct errors in the snatch and clean and jerk. Most of us have seen the guy who can do a kettlebell swing with a 300-lb. barbell. The lift is called a clean, but it...
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Steve Kois: Functional Fitness for 400 Yards off the Tee
Follow CrossFit athlete Steve Kois as he competes in the 2015 World Long Drive Championship, in which heavy hitters ditch the putters and irons to send balls over 400 yards downfield with the driver....
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CrossFit Inc. Victorious in Texas
CrossFit RRG helps John McPherson and P3 CrossFit set precedent by fighting off rhabdomyolysis lawsuit. In September 2011, Adam Gottlieb walked into P3 CrossFit, John McPherson’s affiliate in Houston,...
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March 2016 Collected Articles
The individual PDF articles published in March 2016 are collected here in a single download. The video and audio posts are not contained in the PDF. The articles included here are: “Soda, Death and...
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Gary Taubes: Prosecuting Sugar
The award-winning author sat down with Andréa Maria Cecil to talk about his career, his upcoming book and the task of correcting nutrition science. It took six years and countless reclusive hours for...
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