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The Seasonality of Eggs

I’ve had some questions about why we don’t have as many eggs for sale as we have in the past. There is sometimes a little undertone that someone (or some chicken!) is not doing their job properly.

Even us nutrition-conscious CrossFitters sometimes lose touch with the fact that a food so ubiquitous as [...]

We know you all lead very busy and adventurous lives that often involve quite a bit of travel. Some of you end up in hotels with at least minimal facilities and some of you end up places with no “workout” stuff. Here are some travel workout ideas for you:

1. The Tabata Interval. [...]

“Knees Out!”: Gender-based anatomical situation

If we did a word count on the most common coaching cues in our gym, “knees out” or some similar version, would probably top the list.

Using a resistance band as a physical cue for an athlete to remember “knees out”

How come we are always pestering you about “knees out”? Usually [...]

Skill Check

This Saturday, if you are interested in assessing your skill set for Daily CrossFit, be at the gym at 9:30am. We will proceed through the list.

Last Saturday’s Team Sledgehammer work!

Don’t forget our Saturday CrossFit class at 11:30-12:30!

The structure of the Skill Check is that you will move through the [...]

Game Time

The Competitors

Today we have four competitors at The OC Throwdown, CrossFit’s biggest competition outside of the Reebok CrossFit Games. Sam, Andre, Andrew and Chris will face a VERY tough day. They have worked so hard to get there. I think sometimes we have this impression of excellent CrossFitters that involves some [...]

Primal Plan 8 hr Nutrition Learning Lab

At last. An opportunity to spend many hours talking about food, nutrition, health and wellness! My friend Ryan Koch and I are going to lead/teach an eight hour “class” on the evolutionary approach to food, eating and wellness. Ryan and I share a belief in the wisdom of the diets of our long-ago [...]

Yoga Across America’s Yoga for Athletes on the schedule, 6pm Wednesday

I hope some of you made it to the remembrance events around town this weekend. Congratulations to Mac, who finished very well at the CrossFit competition on Saturday up at CrossFit Now. 4th place I believe?

Such beautiful overhead position at 5:30am!!

As promised, you have a special guest coming to [...]

Gluten-free because gluten makes you miss things!!

“What is gluten-free?”

“Why does everyone want to be gluten-free now?”

I hear these questions quite often. My usual answer is an abbreviated explanation [...]

Taking Ownership of your Effort with the RPE scale

I realize it might feel a little differently not being on the beach…

There are many different systems designed to help an athlete communicate with their coach (and yes, CrossFit considers every single person who does CrossFit to be an athlete). One of the systems we use to facilitate communication between [...]

Furious Fundraiser 4 is done!

Yesterday was a super day up at CrossFit Fury in Goodyear. Peter Egyed and his crew put on a great event. Your fellow CrossFitters had plenty of great moments. First off, every single one of our athletes put in their best form making every rep as good as possible. JSchae did a smashup [...]

Free Community Workout

Don’t forget this Saturday 2pm for the Free Community Workout! Appropriate for anyone and everyone regardless of fitness level.

Schedule notes and Visits to CrossFit Fury and CrossFit Flagstaff

This Friday, October 21, 2011, the gym will close immediately after Open Gym at 6pm because we are headed up to CrossFit Fury for the Furious 4 Fundraiser Event. Raw Strength will finish up next Wednesday October 26th. There will be no CrossFit Kids class on Saturday October 22nd because Mark will be competing [...]

Crying in the Gym

As you all know I am a fan of the author of the 70sBig website. This post of his is so timely for us. We have a crew of super hardworking women preparing for the 2012 CrossFit Open Sectionals (as well as women who have been and are preparing to compete in Olympic [...]

Announcing October’s “Filthy Fifty” Conditioning Challenge

5:30pm class gets their stretch on

The “Filthy Fifty” is a quintessential CrossFit metabolic conditioning workout. It is ten exercises done for 50 reps each that are primarily bodyweight or extremely light weight movements. If your idea of “endurance” or “conditioning” is running, then get ready for something much more interesting! This [...]