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Focus on Food: Hepatorenal toxicity from GMO corn vs your Latina ancestors

Don’t forget, regular schedule Tue, Wed and Thur of this week. Keep checking for updates to the class schedules that will begin on Tuesday January 3rd.

While we are taking this scheduled break from our strength and conditioning training we may as well use this opportunity to focus on our food. It is [...]

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 [...]

Strength is Happiness: A Parkour Documentary

Parkour is ridiculously awesome. The MovNat guys are awesome too, but we don’t all live in the jungles of Thailand or the forests of West Virginia. Parkour is The People’s version of Natural Movement.

I don’t think it is too much of a stretch to say that when we, as humans, feel strong [...]

Sundays are the foundation for the Super Woman Training Program

The 5:30am class with their secret pre-dawn gymnastics skill work.

This afternoon I am contemplating what it means to live the “CrossFit lifestyle”. I’m not at the gym. I haven’t worn anything that says “CrossFit” on it. I haven’t discussed a workout. I’m not even sore. I haven’t been on Facebook or [...]

CrossFit Works Kids in the neighborhood!! Help Casa De Los Ninos.

Today is a big day for the CrossFit Works Kids program. This morning Mark L. took Chris and me over to our next door neighbors, an elementary/middle school, and we were a part of their Wellness Fair. Along with Wilma and Wilbur, University of Arizona’s warmly dressed mascots, we warmed up the entire [...]

Practice Olympic Lifting Meet and Competition Meeting

It hasn’t taken long for the lull of the Tucson summer to wear off and be replaced by an upcoming flurry of events! Lazing around in a heat-induced daze is done.

I sincerely hope will be seeing these two on the evening of August 29th!!

This Saturday August 20th at [...]

Checking in with the CrossFit Kids!!

Quick Update: Steve Haessler will compete at 10:40am and 3:20pm today. Watch it live at http://games.crossfit.com/ GUEST BLOGGER: Mark Lapczynski, CrossFit Works Kids Coach There is literally nothing better than seeing kids running into the gym with huge smiles on their faces in anticipation of a fun workout . Whether we are building forts [...]

Family-style and preparing to Lift

We had a packed house recently as Mark L. and the CrossFit Kids did some very fun looking stuff in their territory and JSchae and the Ladies-Only CrossFit did some “fun” looking stuff in their territory and a few of the rest of us did our work in between occasionally tossing back a [...]

Reminders

Register soon for the Tough Mudder. Registration cost increases astronomically in a couple weeks. Look for our team and use “success1″ as the password. We will prepare you…

The next Raw Strength Series begins on Wed July 20th. It is weeks away, but filling quickly. If you’d like a spot, don’t dally. [...]

The World Needs Role Models

It is easy to grow accustomed to strong, healthy, gorgeous people when you spend your days in a CrossFit gym. I’m being serious. Even if everyone in the gym isn’t where they would like to be in terms of our personal fitness or body composition goals everyone looks great. For the most part, you [...]

Energy and sports drinks for kids

Check out Aaron in motion with Mark L. and the CrossFit Kids crew

Thanks to Patty Z. for sharing this new article out of the journal Pediatrics (2011;127:1181). Most of us know that it is easy to take in double or triple our daily energy requirements in the form of soda, [...]

Raw Strength Series

Ask someone how they feel about lifting heavy weights and chances are you’ll get one of two answers: “I love it” or “I hate it!” As we all know, the basis of wellness and performance is possession of lean muscle and strength. Lifting is kind of like brushing your teeth…even if [...]

Check yourself!

I love to start my day laughing. First I was laughing at how awesome the video Jenny sent to me was…a nine year old GIRL weighing in at 88lbs. back squatting 187lbs in a raw powerlifting meet. I can appreciate that despite the uncomfortable proximity to my own 1RM back squat at…more than [...]

Bone Cells or Fat Cells

There is a never-ending stream of really interesting studies coming out about the development of obesity and what kinds of exercise affect body composition and bone density. Some of it of course, could be relegated to the waste basket of “did we really need a study to prove that?”, but sometimes understanding the [...]