Keep Moving

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Nabil did a great post on pacing yesterday, which if you haven't, give it a read. Coupled with pacing, another helpful method of staying consistent on workouts that I have adapted over the years is moving from one movement to the next with…

Want to Improve Your Ability to Pace? Drop Your Ego.

For a while now we've been talking a lot about pacing.  And while often times this is in context of the CrossFit Open and/or those looking to be competitive in the sport of CrossFit, pacing is also important to those just looking to get in…

Master’s Qualifiers Complete!

Congrats to our masters who completed the second stage of qualifying for the CrossFit Games! At the conclusion of the Open, Helen, Mo, Jacqueline, Lisa, and Lones all finished in the top 200 worldwide and earned a chance to qualify for the…

Knee Stability

A couple posts ago, Daniel James Lynam did a pretty legit post on shoulder stability. If you haven't gotten the chance to check it out, you can do so here! Anyway, I wanted to segue off of DJ's post and talk a little about knee stability. The…

A few tips for the Clean

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With Clean and Jerks coming up this Friday I think this is a good opportunity to re-visit the clean, since we usually talk about the split jerk more often. While the clean is not as technical as the split jerk and tends to not be the limiting…

BBQ & Volleyball Sat. May 6th 12pm @ Heather Farm

Hopefully the nice weather is here to stay, as we'll be having a Sweat Shop BBQ and some sand volleyball at Heather Farm next Saturday, May 6th starting at 12pm.  I'll be bringing the meat and beers if some folks would like to bring a few…

Variety Is The Spice Of Life

While we all have our daily rituals or routine, I think a big part of keeping a balanced and happy life is to have some variety! As you can see from the photo above, Rikus has mastered the art of a well-balanced and varied diet with a Soda…

Reflection

This past week, as most of you know, I was fortunate enough to tag along with JB to Peru. Since being back some of you have asked how the trip was, so I wanted to take a little bit of time to reflect and let you all in on my perspective of…

Its all about the pace

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A couple weeks back JB posted a great piece on aerobic capacity and how as CrossFitters we could benefit from improving our aerobic capacity. One of the factors that would contribute to improving our aerobic capacity is working on our ability…