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The Energy of CrossFit New Haven
Clad in a sequined beret, a spaghetti-strap tank top, compression shorts and a pink boa, one member of CrossFit New Haven says you shouldn’t take yourself too seriously. During the box’s October...
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Ones to Watch
Dark horses make the Reebok CrossFit Games Open a great race. Hilary Achauer talks to two of many who are hoping to get to the regional level. Skeleton racing is a sport that involves hurtling...
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CrossFit Football: Teach Athletes to Be a Bullet in a Gun
The No. 1 goal of a good strength-and-conditioning program is to increase speed. The No. 2 goal is getting athletes to replicate that. “Replicate speed, replicate speed, replicate speed,” says...
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CrossFit Radio Episode 212
On Episode 212 of CrossFit Radio, host Justin Judkins interviewed CrossFit success story Diane McKinney, as well as Adam Stevenson, who is one of the owners of Outlier CrossFit in San Diego. This...
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Crossroads of Ourselves
Ryan Carbone looks at the origins of the words “cross” and “fit” and finds an unexpected deeper meaning. Words are powerful. They can be employed in an incalculable number of ways to achieve any...
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Box Tour: CrossFit Vitality
Inside a North Carolina corporate office building with mirrors on the walls, you will find an unlikely thing: a CrossFit box. “We drove past this probably 40 times ... when we were looking for a space...
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The Role of the Bench Press in Strength Training
Bill Starr on what bench pressing can do for athletes in any sport—even Olympic weightlifting. The bench press has always been a part of the routines for bodybuilders and strength athletes. It’s an...
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An Addiction for the Better
As a child and adolescent, Jennifer Norman spent many days in her family’s garage learning how to squat below parallel. That’s thanks to her father, who was an Olympic weightlifter. “We had sleds that...
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CrossFit Movement and Mobility Trainer Course: Dip Mechanics
At Kelly Starrett’s box, San Francisco CrossFit, ring dips are an intermediate skill. The key to the movement is external rotation of the arms for the best efficiency and mechanics, says the movement...
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Muscle-Up Virtuosity: Part 2
CrossFit Santa Cruz’s Laurie Galassi is a gymnast and CrossFit coach. In this instructional video, she breaks down that most challenging CrossFit movement: the muscle-up. After dealing with body...
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You Were Saying With Tammy Shea
Tammy Shea talks about Terminator movies and religion-based squat cues. The CrossFit Journal is pleased to present the next in a series of profiles designed to help you get to know some of the best...
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Winter Break Road Trip: Parts 1-2
East Coast boys Austin Malleolo and James Hobart are on the road again, this time invading Northern California before embarking on a voyage that will include stops in San Francisco, Sacramento, Salt...
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Butter Balls
The kids will surely be talking about the colorful combinations of this dish—and hopefully they’ll be eating it too! Butternut squash shows us its beautiful color while the meatballs add some valuable...
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Always Fighting
Female weightlifters couldn’t compete in the Olympics until 2000, but that didn’t stop Karyn Marshall from setting a Guinness Book of World Records standard by being the first woman to clean and jerk...
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Never Enough CrossFit
After being among the youngest individual competitors at the regional level of the 2011 Reebok CrossFit Games, 19-year-old Trevor James wants to make CrossFit his life and career. Andréa Maria Cecil...
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Efficiency Tips: The Snatch
In this video filmed at a CrossFit Competitors Course at CrossFit Park City, Eric O’Connor and Chris Spealler show how to use the snatch in workouts that test speed and conditioning rather than just...
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CrossFit Radio Episode 213
On Episode 213 of CrossFit Radio, host Justin Judkins interviewed CrossFit Craic owner John Mc Evoy, Reebok CrossFit Games Open Workout 12.1 co-winner Scott Panchik, and CrossFit Foxes owner Emma...
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February 2012 Collected Articles
The individual PDF articles published in February 2012 are collected here in a single download. The video and audio articles are not contained in the PDF. The articles included here are: Hear and Now...
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A Life of Soreness
Jimmy Viola reports how Elizabeth McTear discovered CrossFit and reconnected with her body—shedding three sizes along the way. All her life, Elizabeth McTear says she lived the right way. She snacked...
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After the Gunfire
Rohan Jones came to Canada from Jamaica as an angry young man. That got him into trouble when an argument in a bar went bad. He was stabbed twice and shot nine times. Pat Sherwood met Jones at a Level...
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