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Meet CrossFit HD
It’s a familiar story that never gets old: Two guys hear of a workout named Fran. At a mere 95 lb., those thrusters look like cake. More than 10 minutes later, they’re still not done. “It probably...
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CrossFit Radio Episode 230
On Episode 230 of CrossFit Radio, host Justin Judkins interviewed CrossFit success story Brian Marcoullier and Reebok CrossFit Games Masters qualifier Eric Bartlett. This episode was webcast live at 6...
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The Tim Baldry Story
When Tim Baldry started CrossFit, he weighed 395 lb. Today, he’s about 215. “It’s a completely different life,” says Baldry, who started at CrossFit Hammond after temporarily being transferred to...
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Live and Learn
By providing water and schools, CrossFit is changing lives in Kenya—and you can help. Mike Warkentin explains. Functional fitness is on full display in Kenya. Except it isn’t about PRs and Fran times....
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The Three A’s of Awesome
Life is short. Ryan Carbone reviews three ways to make it better—in CrossFit and beyond. Like CrossFit, life is filled with complexities and convolutions that can often make it exceedingly difficult....
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Three Drills in Eight Minutes
If you want to improve your snatch, Mike Burgener has the three-part answer. “We’ll break you down into drills, parts, and we’re going to train those parts so that you don’t have to think about it,”...
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A Day With Ben Smith
Call it “CrossFit cul-de-sac,” unofficially. It’s where Ben Smith, his brother, his cousin and his friends work out: his parents’ house in Chesapeake, Va. The 22-year-old Smith won this year’s Mid...
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June 2012 Collected Articles
The individual PDF articles published in June 2012 are collected here in a single download. The video and audio articles are not contained in the PDF. The articles included here are: He Will Find a...
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Simple Nutrition
CrossFit trainer E.C. Synkowski offers practical nutrition information to help with day-to-day choices. At CrossFit Hingham, she talks to a group of CrossFitters about macronutrients, micronutrients,...
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Spencer Hendel’s “Freaky Coincidence”
Spencer Hendel snagged third place at the North East Regional on the final workout of the weekend. At 23, he’ll make his fourth appearance at the CrossFit Games this year. Andréa Maria Cecil reports....
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Building an Artificial Pool Edge
In a typical residential pool, there is a distance of several inches between the water’s surface and the coping or deck. “Many, many times, an infant or a young child—even at 2 or 3 years of...
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Smooth Silence
The average child asks (brace yourself) 500 to 600 questions every day. If your ears and brain need a break, make your inquisitive little guys one of these smoothies. Make it thick and serve it with a...
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Meet CrossFit Ocean Isle Beach
At CrossFit Ocean Isle Beach in North Carolina, members include children as young as 4, professionals in their mid-40s and senior citizens. “I like to say we’re ‘the 98 percent,’” owner Karen Candia...
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Being There: The 2009 CrossFit Games at Aromas
E.M. Burton hadn’t done a CrossFit workout when she went to the Games in 2009. Here’s what she found when she reviewed her photos from The Ranch. While CrossFit had been on my radar for years, in July...
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Kettlebell Clean Variations
Using a different implement to practice cleans opens the door to other movements. With the kettlebell, this means the dead clean, the kettlebell clean and the two-armed clean. The positions, Jeff...
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CrossFit Radio Episode 231
On Episode 231 of CrossFit Radio, host Justin Judkins interviewed Rudy Nielsen, owner of Outlaw CrossFit, and Doug Chapman, owner of CrossFit Ann Arbor. This episode was webcast live at 6 p.m. PDT on...
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Confessions of a Reformed CrossFit Hater
As a chiropractor and ultra-marathon runner, Dennis Lesniak spent many years being suspicious of CrossFit. Then he found out it really works. I was first exposed to CrossFit in the fall of 2006 when a...
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Joint Mobility
Once you mobilize the muscle, you mobilize the joint. In this video, movement and mobility guru Kelly Starrett presents two ways of mobilization with band distraction and compression/approximation....
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It Makes a Village
Dallin Frampton built a home in Kenya, and now CrossFit is building momentum for its humanitarian efforts in Duruma land. After literally building my own shelter in Kenya, I can honestly say that I...
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CrossFit for Corporate Team Building
Ever heard of an annual sales meeting that involved working out? HGST, formerly known as Hitachi GST, decided that CrossFit was the best way to bring together nearly 200 employees from around the...
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