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Big Easy Does It
CrossFit trainers everywhere struggle to keep members eating healthy during the season of ubiquitous treats and festivities galore. For coaches in New Orleans, it’s nearly impossible. It’s difficult...
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Weak for a Week?
The period between Christmas and New Year’s can destroy your fitness. Proceed with caution. The week between Christmas and New Year’s is the Death Valley of fitness. I’d wager more pounds are gained...
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CrossFit Firefight
Most CrossFit athletes know the cramping, burning ache in the forearms caused by Fran, but few have pushed through that to fire a gun at a target. At a Nov. 16 competition in Florida, three-time...
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CrossFit Radio Episode 310
On Episode 310 of CrossFit Radio, host Justin Judkins interviewed Ian Wittenber about his epic motorcycle trip through Latin America with Pat Sherwood. This episode was webcast on Dec. 26, 2013. 1:57...
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CrossFit Risk Retention Group: 2013 Update
Over 30 percent of CrossFit affiliates in the U.S. turn to community-owned insurance to protect their businesses. Four years ago, there was an idea to create something that would represent our strength...
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Indignation for Self-Defense: “How Dare You?”
If a bad guy sticks a gun in your face, makes the mistake of not killing you and then further makes the mistake of talking, it’s your lucky day. “If a guy stuck a gun in your face, would he expect you...
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2013: Beloved Suffering
Dave Castro, Nicole Carroll and a host of athletes and affiliate owners recall the workouts that made an impression in the year that was. Early in 2013, CrossFit Founder and CEO Greg Glassman and Dave...
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The Best of 2013
With the New Year upon us, Heber Cannon and Eric Maciel offer this retrospective collection of some of the best moments of 2013 as seen through CrossFit Media’s lenses. From the elegant beauty of Chad...
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Constantly Varied Kitchen: Pastel de Papa
There are a multitude of ways to make pastel de papa. This particular recipe is Zone friendly. “(It’s) kind of like a shepherd’s pie with sweet potatoes,” explains chef Nick Massie. “If I had one meal...
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Body of Work
Whether people know it or not, many have already seen tattooist Josh Wrede’s work on a few very prominent human billboards: multi-year CrossFit Games competitors and Level 1 Seminar Staff members Matt...
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Josh Wrede: Creating Art on Skin
When Josh Wrede was a teenager, his mother worked in a tattoo shop. It wasn’t a place he found appealing. “I didn’t want to be part of it. I didn’t really want to be around it that much,” he says. What...
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CrossFit Radio Episode 311
On Episode 311 of CrossFit Radio, host Justin Judkins interviewed CrossFit City Line owner and Level 1 Seminar Staff member Mat Frankel, as well as Matt Biggs, who owns Sandia CrossFit. This episode...
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Life Under the Big Top
Current and former Cirque du Soleil performers talk about what it takes to “deliver the magic” for 10 shows in five days. Wellington Lima bursts through one of the back doors of the Mandalay Bay Resort...
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Behind the Games: 2013
Shortly before 4:30 a.m. on the first day of individual competition, Director of the CrossFit Games Dave Castro sums up the collective feeling of the day. “This morning is going to be awesome. Or a...
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No Time for Patty-Cake
Straight-talking CrossFit trainers reveal why they believe the tough-love approach is best when it comes to coaching. Andréa Maria Cecil reports. Although soft-spoken, Jeff Martin is known for being a...
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Tending Bar
About 10 years ago, a man called Giant started the Bartendaz fitness movement in the United States’ black-culture capital. Today, he’s spreading his message beyond Harlem and seeking to change more...
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December 2013 Collected Articles
The individual PDF articles published in December 2013 are collected here in a single download. The video and audio posts are not contained in the PDF. The articles included here are: International...
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Bartendaz: “Mind Up”
When Andrew Creary played football at Hampton University, he could bench 356 lb. and squat more than 500 lb. But at 240 lb., he couldn’t do one pull-up. Today, things are different: He’s a member of...
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Constantly Varied Kitchen: Cinnamon-Infused Short Ribs
If you’re dedicated to the Zone Diet and like bargains, this is a recipe for you: cinnamon-infused short ribs. The dish was “inspired by a trip to Costco, where we found some butternut squash...
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From Spin Classes to Snatches
In Haarlem, Netherlands, Gijs Spaans operates a CrossFit affiliate right next door to a Globo Gym. In fact, the two businesses share a wall. That’s because Spaans used to own the gym next door. “I took...
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