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Coaches Prep Course: Using Dependent Cues
As a coach, you have to know when to speak up and when to remain silent to keep intensity high. You also have to know how to get your point across quickly to athletes who are focusing on working hard,...
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How Clean Is Your Bathroom?
Greg Glassman has a unique way of evaluating the quality of an affiliate: he asks about the cleanliness of the bathroom. That, of course, isn’t to say training knowledge isn’t important, but rather...
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Improving the Clean
Many strong athletes eventually hit a wall when training the Olympic lifts. Bill Starr explains how to get back on track when your clean stalls and PRs cease to come. I’m assuming that you’re using at...
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All Over the Map 2: Pamanian, Bergeron and Plumey
On the road again ... . Ian Wittenber of Again Faster is back in the car after visiting with top Northeast Regional finishers Rob Orlando and James Hobart in Part 1 of this series. The second leg of...
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CrossFit Radio Episode 124
On Episode 124 of CrossFit Radio, host Justin Judkins interviewed Bob Guere, owner of CrossFit California City; Pam Robles and Dave Lombardo, who are organizing the CrossFit event in the California...
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Chatting With Eleiko
Eleiko has over 50 years of experience in the business of creating high-quality bars and plates for some of the world’s strongest athletes. In fact, over 900 world records have been set with Eleiko...
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Arm Wrestling 101: Rising Strength Part 2
Devon Larratt has already given you the basics on arm wrestling in Part 1 of this series. Now it’s time to take your rising strength to the next level. In this second installment, the right-hand world...
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Front Range CrossFit Training Camp: Grace
We’re back at Front Range CrossFit for a look at one of the elements of the training camp Skip Miller held to ready athletes for the CrossFit Games qualification process. This time around, athletes...
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The Ultimate Painkiller?
Does suffering in a group make it easier? Dr. Steven M. Platek believes the camaraderie of CrossFit can get you through the nastiest WOD. What does CrossFit have to do with pain? Quite fascinatingly,...
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All Over the Map 3: Phillips and Smith
Still in his car, Ian Wittenber is seeking out the most elite of athletes: those who qualified for the 2010 CrossFit Games. On the third leg of this crazy journey, he’s in the American capital,...
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Benching With Louie: Part 2
Louie Simmons can make you strong, but how he does it can be a bit of a mystery. Louie, however, doesn’t keep any secrets and shares his techniques with the CrossFit community at Powerlifting Certs....
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No Limits
Catherine Cochran isn’t allowing diabetes to prevent her from CrossFitting. With very careful management of blood glucose levels, she’s hitting WODs and getting fitter. If there is one thing I can’t...
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Two-Minute Drills Part 1: Mobilization with Movement
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...
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A Roomful of the Fittest
Ever wondered what would be discussed if you brought together a group of past CrossFit Games champions, 2010 Games competitors and other highly respected CrossFit athletes? Such a group was assembled...
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Familiar Faces: Chatting with the Euros
While CrossFit is a growing phenomenon in Europe, many familiar faces from Games past rose to the top of the heap at this year’s Europe Regional. Blair Morrison qualified last year by way of the...
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America’s Hottest Philanthropist?
“I Googled your name, Brad.” “Oh, God.” Poor Brad Ludden. All he wants to do is paddle a kayak and swing a kettlebell, but sometimes being a big-shot pro athlete means you’re going to spend a little...
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Aged 18 Years
Chris Moore offers seven lessons learned from 18 years under the bar. Training is just like whiskey. You start with raw, coarse ingredients. After careful preparation and sustained heat, you can...
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CrossFit Radio Episode 125
On Episode 125 of CrossFit Radio, host Justin Judkins interviewed Rich Froning Jr., winner of the Southeast Regional. The second half of the show featured the World’s Fittest Female, Tanya Wagner....
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All Over the Map: Phillips and Hendel
Ian Wittenber is living the CrossFit version of a Kerouac novel, driving across the country in search of the characters who will compete at the CrossFit Games. With over 1,000 miles on the odometer,...
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Real Science
How does an affiliate owner truly convey in words the theories and methodologies of the CrossFit practice to a new client? Many grab at “constantly varied functional movements executed at high...
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