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The Emotional Bank Account
When it comes to creating community, there are good affiliates and there are great affiliates. So says Ben Bergeron, head coach and co-owner of CrossFit New England, home to the team that won the 2011...
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Paoli Learns How to Throw a Baseball
CrossFit 650 is home to Game Prep Baseball Academy, a facility catering to baseball players in the San Bruno, Calif., area. Anthony Granato and Lucas Robinson founded the affiliate. Granato played...
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The Banality of Elitism
Dan Edelman urges parents and grown-ups everywhere to resist the urge to adult-erate youth sports. As a CrossFit Kids trainer, what do you do with a larval-stage firebreather? Before answering,...
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CrossFit Football: Amateur Progression
For amateur athletes aiming to gain strength, seven-day programming is simple, says CrossFit Football’s Ben Oliver. On Day 1, it’s squats, presses and running. On Day 2, it’s deadlifts and max...
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Breakfast Sprouts
It’s breakfast. Wait, they’re Brussels sprouts. No, they’re breakfast sprouts! Your kids will never know what hit them with this flavorful breakfast dish peppered with bacon and disguised with an egg.
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Sixth for Speal
Relive the riveting moments of the South West Regional, where the legendary Chris Spealler qualified for his sixth CrossFit Games with a remarkable performance. On July 13 at the Home Depot Center, he...
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Diet Secrets of the Tupperware Man Vol. 2
Original Firebreather Greg Amundson draws a correlate between physical and mental nutrition. In December 2003, in lieu of a traditional CrossFit WOD, Coach Glassman gathered the 6 a.m. “Team Six”...
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Teachers and CrossFit
Meet Jane and Lynn: teachers, CrossFitters and coaches at CrossFit NRG. Jane Drexler teaches philosophy, and Lynn Kilpatrick teaches composition. Both said CrossFit is a lot like their day jobs. Being...
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CrossFit Radio Episode 229
On Episode 229 of CrossFit Radio, host Justin Judkins interviewed cooking expert Michele Vieux and Albany CrossFit owner Jason Ackerman. This episode was webcast live at 6 p.m. PDT on Wednesday, June...
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Ordinary Teen?
Emma Miles is a Washington teenager who’s actually pretty extraordinary. In many ways, Emma Miles is a typical teenage girl. She’s a 14-year-old middle-school student from rural Pasco, Wash. She lives...
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The Importance of Stroke Rate
Rowing different distances requires different exertion. And depending on what else the workout includes, knowing your stroke rate is a good thing. “Stroke rating is extremely important in helping you...
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The Guy Who Almost Beat Spealler
When the final day of the South West Regional began, Matt Hathcock held the last Games spot and suddenly became the man Chris Spealler was chasing. Emily Beers explains. On Day 3 of the South West...
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Box Tour: CrossFit StumpTown
Tony Edgerton spent 13 years as a personal trainer working at Globo Gyms. He started at 24 Hour Fitness, worked his way up to management and “hated it,” he says, so he went back to training, logging...
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Failure Is Not an Option
Training and competing optimally is a big deal. Likewise, Shane Sweatt of Westside Barbell says it’s not OK to miss lifts. “We teach people in the U.S., ‘As long as you try hard, it’s OK.’ It’s not OK...
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Mallory’s Story
It was about 6 p.m. on Aug. 14, 2007. Emily Foreman had just put her 13-month-old twins in the bathtub. She turned on the water and plugged the drain. Then she remembered she had pork chops on the...
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Essential Architecture
E.M. Burton muses on the nature of the CrossFit box. A CrossFit box can contain an infinite variety of occupations, of uses, if not unknown and unknowable at least unpredictable. The archetype of a...
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Paoli Learns How to Throw a Baseball: Part 2
Throwing a baseball is a complex movement. To simplify it, gymnastics and movement guru Carl Paoli explains it as squaring up the hips and then external shoulder rotation followed by internal shoulder...
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Baggage Beasts
You’ve seen your bags heaved into the plane at the airport. Now Mikki Lee Martin has your kids slugging luggage for fitness. Some airport baggage handlers have the ability to heave suitcases filled...
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CrossFit Striking: Power Development
When it comes to a successful punch, power is of the essence. In this video, George Ryan of CrossFit Striking demonstrates some power-development exercises with pro MMA fighter Neal Abrams. The first...
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Won Two
Hilary Achauer gets to know Regional champs Azadeh Boroumand and Jon Pera, who have more in common than talent, determination and heart. Azadeh Boroumand was all Pat Sherwood and Rory McKernan could...
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