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A Beginner’s Perspective
Warrington Parker offers affiliate owners and coaches tips on how to keep athletes coming back. A little more than two years ago, I attended my first CrossFit class. I had no idea what I was getting...
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CrossFit Inspires Singer’s “Fight”
The stage is not much different than a WOD. So says Kate Moran, lead singer of the Kate Moran Band and a CrossFitter at CrossFit Oldtown in Alexandria, Va. “You just have to let go,” she explains....
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Inside England’s CrossFit HG3
It was a chance meeting: two strangers, one car, a Barbells for Boobs event. “By the end of that car ride and the end of the day, we’d made the agreement that when we got back, ‘Hell, we’re going to...
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Fight for Christchurch
Charlotte Bellis might be a TVNZ news reporter, but she was more than prepared to answer the call when a local promoter asked her to jump in the boxing ring to raise funds for people affected by the...
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What Can Your Kid Do? Are You Sure?
The Games’ first CrossFit Kids Teen Challenge exemplifies what the youth program is all about. Dan Edelman explains. We are near the end of CrossFit Brand X’s Teen weightlifting class....
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Be Your Own Bodyguard Part 4: Trojan Horse Concept
In this new series, get an inside peak into Tony Blauer’s Be Your Own Bodyguard seminar hosted by San Francisco CrossFit. Tony Blauer, founder of Blauer Tactical Systems, has been providing these...
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Sweet Cauliflower Mash
Turn kids on to vegetables when they’re younger and they’ll have a lifetime of healthy eating ahead of them. One way of doing this is by dolling those veggies up with all things fun and delicious....
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All in the Family
First, it was her two sisters. Then it was her parents. Then her husband. Her kids. Some in-laws. All told, there are roughly a dozen members of Brenda Glidden’s extended family who work out at...
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Moving Beyond Muscle
Kevin J. Kula asks why CrossFitters use muscle-based soft-tissue therapies. For chronic problems, he says fascially based therapies are the solution. CrossFitters demand more from their exercise...
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Training During Ramadan
Kulsoom Abdullah is the first woman to lift in sanctioned U.S. Olympic-weightlifting competitions while wearing traditional Muslim dress covering the head, arms and legs. In keeping with her religious...
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CrossFit Radio Episode 208
On Episode 208 of CrossFit Radio, host Justin Judkins interviewed CrossFit competitor Kasey Marble and Georgia Tech professor Dr. Ken Gall. This episode was webcast live at 6 p.m. PDT on Wednesday,...
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I Am Not Cancer. I Am CrossFit.
Exhausted and overwhelmed after battling thyroid cancer, Kelly Knight discovers CrossFit and newfound energy and confidence. Hilary Achauer reports. When Kelly Knight turns on her phone, the first...
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Law Enforcement Training Seminar
Original Firebreather Greg Amundson is no stranger to law enforcement. For nine years, he was a deputy sheriff in Santa Cruz County, Calif., and he worked at the Drug Enforcement Administration for...
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You Were Saying With Nathan Chmura
Nathan Chmura of CrossFit Nor’Easter talks about CrossFit, beer and The Big Lebowski. The CrossFit Journal is pleased to present another profile designed to help you get to know some of the best...
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Never too Busy for CrossFit
They’re all moms. One is a logistics manager at a stationary plant, another stays at home, and the third is a middle-school principal. All three women say the same thing: There’s no good reason not to...
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Starting CrossFit at 63
In his younger days, Jim Menjou used to run—a lot. “Marathons and all that,” he says. “When I got past 40, I stopped. I’m 63 now. I stopped doing all that and started running to the refrigerator—and...
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Pull-Up Virtuosity: Part 1
CrossFit Santa Cruz’s Laurie Galassi, a gymnast and the fifth-place finisher at the 2011 NorCal Regional, shares her coaching tips for mastering the pull-up. In Part 1 of the series, she focuses on...
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Grief and Pull-Ups
Natalie Taylor uses CrossFit to confront—and beat—her monsters. About three-and-a-half years ago, I slammed into my first real-life monster. I lost my husband, Josh, in an accident. At the time of his...
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Box Tour: Integrated Fitness
Inside a 25-year-old family sports facility outside Pittsburgh is Integrated Fitness, a CrossFit box that does sport-specific training. The Bethel Park, Pa., box is more than 3,000 square feet inside...
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Are Repetition and Novelty at Odds?
Mikki Lee Martin describes ways to drill your kids repeatedly without boring them to distraction. At the CrossFit Kids Trainer Course, we discuss some teaching methodologies based on how kids learn....
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