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“CrossFit Has Helped My Healing Process”
After a motorcycle accident involving another motorcycle, Jennifer Lazo was left with a compound fracture of her tibia, which was missing two inches, and a fibula that was cracked in half. “After the...
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Meet CrossFit Ocean Beach
Three years ago, Chad Timm was running a lot and doing P90X. “I thought I was pretty darn fit,” he says. Then a friend told him about CrossFit. “(She) went to a free workout, got her butt kicked, told...
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Bringing CrossFit to the Corporate World
It’s not unheard of for a corporation to have a fitness center outfitted with treadmills and ellipticals. But what about a CrossFit affiliate? At Global Storage Technology, based in San Jose, Calif.,...
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Feet First
Bill Starr explains why the feet are the key to almost any lift. Oddly enough, few strength athletes think about their feet when performing an exercise—but they should. Seldom do people even think...
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Meet Nicole Gordon
She was once known as the woman who hit her finger with a sledgehammer at the 2009 CrossFit Games in Aromas, Calif. Today, Nicole Gordon might be more well known for being a member of CrossFit’s Level...
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On Elegance
Pat Sherwood addresses the concept of clever simplicity in fitness and life. CrossFit places great importance on the concept of elegance. In my pre-CrossFit life, I only associated the word elegant...
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CrossFit Radio Episode 264
On Episode 264 of CrossFit Radio, host Justin Judkins interviewed CrossFit success story Irene Mejia and CrossFit Inferno owner Bill Grundler. This episode was webcast live at 6 p.m. PDT on Wednesday,...
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Bring the Noise
Heavy-metal drummer Jon Dette is currently filling in for Anthrax drummer Charlie Benante and Slayer drummer Dave Lombardo for both bands’ Australian shows. In an interesting twist, Dette played...
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To Be a SEAL
Mario Lanza had it figured out: he would go to college on a baseball scholarship and doors would continue to open. There was one problem: Lanza didn’t make his studies a priority. “I thought I had...
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The Rope Climb
When it comes to rope climbs, gymnast and CrossFit Santa Cruz coach Laurie Galassi teaches two ways to wrap the feet. The first climbing method involves wrapping one leg all the way around the rope and...
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February 2013 Collected Articles
The individual PDF articles published in February 2013 are collected here in a single download. The video and audio posts are not contained in the PDF. The articles included here are: Systolic: 140....
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Never too Young to Survive
In today’s world, your kids might need to be their own bodyguards in an emergency. Parent, police officer and CrossFit Defense coach Rick Randolph explains how to prepare your children for a...
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CrossFit Radio Episode 265
On Episode 265 of CrossFit Radio, host Justin Judkins interviewed CrossFit affiliate owners Jon Jansen and Joe Westerlin. This episode was webcast live at 6 p.m. PDT on Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2013. 2:26...
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Meet Adrian Bozman
Black Cobra, Fu Manchu, Orchid—just a few of the records in Adrian Bozman’s collection. Acid Witch, though, is his favorite. “Nobody likes them except me and, like, a couple of my friends,” he says,...
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CrossFit: A Sisyphean Endeavor?
Dr. Jane Drexler asks who we are between the first rep and the last. “He is superior to his fate. He is stronger than his rock.” —Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus If you want to wax philosophical...
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A Tour of Buck’s Gym
Allen Buck’s home gym in Brentwood, Tenn., has equipment galore and a lot of character courtesy of old telephone poles embedded to create a pull-up/wall-ball rig, homemade GHDs, a pit for atlas stones,...
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The Wedding WOD
For the Mericles, there was no better way to celebrate their upcoming wedding than with pull-ups, burpees, hand-release push-ups, kettlebell swings and a 200-meter run—all while attached to another...
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CrossFit Radio Episode 266
On Episode 266 of CrossFit Radio, host Justin Judkins interviewed CrossFit success story Nicki Garcia and CrossFit Games competitor and Level 1 Seminar Staff member Katie Hogan. This episode was...
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CrossFit Games Behind the Scenes: Saturday and Sunday
In this installment of the Behind the Scenes series, Sevan Matossian takes his camera off the competition floor to talk to CrossFit staff, judges, volunteers and competitors on the final two days of...
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Fuck Compression Tights
Mike Warkentin believes special equipment will never take the place of practice and effort. I have little use for the gear debate about which shoes are better for which workout, whether tights help...
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