Two-Minute Drills Part 5: Internal Rotation
Mobility and recovery expert Kelly Starrett has a lot of unique ways to improve a client’s range of motion and flexibility without traditional static stretching. By using some basic principles of...
View ArticleTransitioning CrossFit Movements into Elite Skills: Part 2
Carl Paoli is an elite gymnast and coach at San Francisco CrossFit who also runs his own practice called Naka Athletics. Today, Paoli teaches us how the hollow-body position and mushroom training can...
View ArticleCrossFit Radio Episode 140
On Episode 140 of CrossFit Radio, host Justin Judkins interviewed CrossFit Journal article author Amy Santamaria and Front Range CrossFit owner Skip Miller. This episode was webcast live at 6 p.m. PDT...
View ArticleCrossFit Games Competitor For Life
CrossFit Games champion Graham Holmberg has earned a lifetime Games entry for his 2010 win. What does it mean to never have to qualify again? For Holmberg, it means everything. The reality of...
View ArticleAnalyzing the 105s
“I’m lovin’ this idea It’s only going to bring more exposure to weightlifting, and I think it’s going to be great for both sports.” If anyone is skeptical about a CrossFit-USAW partnership, it isn’t...
View ArticleCrossFit Fort Vancouver: Programming for the Games
Join CrossFit Fort Vancouver as they discuss the programming that prepared them for their first-place finish in the 2010 CrossFit Games Affiliate Cup. According to affiliate owner Adam Neiffer, the...
View ArticleThe Fittest Girl
Who is Kristan Clever? We may know her as the Fittest Woman on Earth, winner of the 2010 CrossFit Games, but she’s much more than that. Follow Sevan Matossian on this introspective journey into the...
View ArticleCombative Practical Shooting: Part 2
What is it like to perform at a high level in a sport like practical shooting? “There’s this feeling that you get of just being calm and centered and in the moment,” says Dave Re, a CrossFitter out of...
View ArticleAnalyzing the 94s
At the recent CrossFit-USAW Open in Colorado Springs, Colo., a host of elite athletes and coaches donned headsets at the broadcast table to break down what was happening on the platform. During the...
View ArticleLiving the CrossFit Life
CrossFit has become an integral part of the lives of athletes, coaches and affiliate owners. Dr. Allison Belger interviews CrossFit athletes from different walks of life to find out just how much...
View ArticleRope-Climbing Techniques: The Spanish Wrap
What do egg-beaters have to do with rope climbing? Let HQ trainer Adrian (Boz) Bozman show you as he teaches rope-climbing basics. On location in San Francisco, Calif., Sevan Matossian films Adrian,...
View ArticleWorst. WOD. Ever.
CrossFit has no shortage of grueling workouts, but Richard Grimes goes in search of the most unpleasant WOD ever devised. A CrossFitter, an endurance runner and a triathlete sat in a bar drinking and...
View ArticleCrossFit Radio, Episode 141
On Episode 141 of CrossFit Radio, host Justin Judkins interviewed Khristian Moore, who has seen amazing results since starting CrossFit and a Paleo/Zone diet. Justin also interviewed Fernando David,...
View ArticleTransitioning CrossFit Movements into Elite Skills: Part 3
Have a box? You can learn levers. Think that’s great? Find out what Carl Paoli can teach you to do with rings and parallel bars. Paoli is an elite gymnast and coach at San Francisco CrossFit who also...
View ArticleSub-Failure Injury
What is “sub-failure”? Is that like taking a test and getting a D+? Sub-failure, when it comes to injury, is common. There is usually pain or discomfort involved, but there is not an acute failure of...
View ArticleTwo Months after the 2010 CrossFit Games
Legacy athletes who have won the CrossFit Games and Top 5 finishers are invited back each year without having to go through the gauntlet of qualifying. For the rest of the competitors, getting back is...
View ArticleDouble Fran
Does this describe your own Fran experience? “My legs got wobbly and I said, ‘I feel like a newborn horse.’” 2010 CrossFit Games champion Graham Holmberg said that, only he didn’t say it after Fran....
View ArticleAnalyzing the 63s and 69s
With the 63- and 69-kg women on the platform at the recent CrossFit-USAW Open, the broadcast team was joined by elite American lifters Kendrick Farris and Natalie Burgener. Both Farris and Burgener...
View ArticleThe Cycle of Behavior: Part 1
Are you afraid of a knife? Do you own a knife? How is it that you are afraid of a knife and yet you own one? What are you really afraid of? Let Tony Blauer illustrate more mental associations and...
View ArticleWarming Up and Stretching: The Neglected Disciplines
If you don’t warm up or stretch, you aren’t optimizing your performance. Bill Starr explains. Getting considerably stronger and staying that way is largely a matter of taking care of the details, such...
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