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“Fitness, Luck and Health”—Correction
An Aug. 16 article incorrectly stated that 70 percent of deaths worldwide are due to chronic disease, and that 1.87 of the 2.3 million deaths in the U.S. last year were due to chronic disease. The...
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Two Continents, One Community: CrossFit Balaban
Ertan Balaban opened CrossFit Balaban in Istanbul, Turkey, in 2013. One of the biggest cities in the world, Istanbul sits on two continents—Europe and Asia. Balaban compares his city to New York or...
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CrossFit Affiliates: Glamour Vs. Grit
Some clients prefer polished brass pull-up bars, while others like a little rust on the barbell. Nearly 5,000 miles and an ocean apart, two classes of CrossFit athletes are doing work. Their lungs are...
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Leanda Keahi-Bevans: “Treat People Well”
Leanda Keahi-Bevans thought she was invincible until a traumatic experience left her battling PTSD and depression. She needed something to turn her life around and make her value herself again. That’s...
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Affiliate Roundup, Part 11: “Programming for GPP”
It takes more than just a Level 1 Certificate to run a successful CrossFit affiliate. In this series, learn about the various ways affiliate owners and trainers evolve and plan as they work to lead...
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Gymnastics: What Do You Want to Do With Your Body?
The CrossFit Gymnastics Trainer Course sets athletes up for a lifetime of strength and movement. “I’ve got a 70-year-old man who took our course eight years ago who’s almost got a full iron cross,”...
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Chronic Disease: “We Have the Answer”
CrossFit Founder and CEO Greg Glassman visits a Level 1 Certificate Course at CrossFit Silicon Valley to talk about how CrossFit is at the forefront of a revolutionary fight against the leading cause...
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Supplements and Snake Oil
A wall of nutritional supplements can be incredibly seductive. The little jars with multisyllabic, unpronounceable technical names that often combine letters and numbers: CoQ10, L-carnitine L-tartrate,...
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The Will to Walk
It’s July in Kelowna, British Columbia. Ordinarily, athletes at Bodyshop CrossFit in West Kelowna would be working out diligently. Today, they’re visibly distracted. The 2016 Reebok CrossFit Games are...
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Movie Review: “Citizen Soldier”
Point-of-view combat footage offers a dramatic look at the National Guard in Afghanistan. “It’s jammed again. I hate this thing!” The same words are likely spoken hourly near printers and copiers in...
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August 2016 Collected Articles
The individual PDF articles published in August 2016 are collected here in a single download. The video and audio posts are not contained in the PDF. The articles included here are: “Weight a Second:...
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Conjectural Fatigue: High-Repetition Weightlifting
The snatch and clean and jerk can safely be used for conditioning—and have been for years. A tremendous amount of criticism has been leveled at high-rep Olympic weightlifting. Much of it comes from a...
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Affiliate Roundup, Part 12: “Programming Pitfalls”
It takes more than just a Level 1 Certificate to run a successful CrossFit affiliate. In this series, learn about the various ways affiliate owners and trainers evolve and plan as they work to lead...
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How Much Ya Bench?
Often forgotten in favour of push presses or jerks, the bench press can add variety to CrossFit workouts. On April 22, 2004, Lynne Pitts followed her normal routine. She woke up and logged onto...
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Jonny Walker Gold Medal?
Jonny Walker has been riding motorcycles since he was 9 years old. Now the 25-year-old competes professionally in enduro, a motorcycle sport contested on mostly off-road courses filled with obstacles....
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CrossFit Lifeguard: Stephen Walker
Neurosurgeon credits Stephen Walker’s fitness with saving his life while he fought polymicrobial brain infection. Stephen Walker’s moniker is “Mr. 5 a.m.” Since he joined CrossFit Palm Beach in...
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The Glassman Chipper, Part 2
We challenge you to improve your mental fitness by reading our Founder and CEO’s CrossFit Journal articles. “When we explained that we thought our workouts were so effective that if we were to post one...
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A CrossFit Calling
Like many entrepreneurs, Lindsey Barber changed careers to follow her passion. Lindsey Barber gripped the wheel. Most of the 30-mile drive between Unity and Cut Knife, Saskatchewan, is open road,...
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Rack It Right
Zachary Long explains how to identify and correct flexibility limitations in the front-rack position. Front-rack positioning can make or break the CrossFit athlete. Poor flexibility in the front rack...
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Affiliate Roundup, Part 13: “Programming as Culture”
It takes more than just a Level 1 Certificate to run a successful CrossFit affiliate. In this series, learn about the various ways affiliate owners and trainers evolve and plan as they work to lead...
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