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Vitamin D – it makes your muscles more powerful

Liver is one of the best sources of Vitamin D. When I lived with a Lakota family on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation raw liver was a special treat, shared equally amongst the family members. If you aren’t thrilled at that idea you can try a supplement that some of the most [...]

Upcoming Raw Strength and Olympic Lifting Series

CrossFit Works’ and Steve’s Club Tucson would like to welcome the young men and women of the 2011 Tucson Police Department Gang Prevention Program. Very nice work this morning.

Mark these dates on your calendars por favor!! The next 3 hour Mini-Olympic Lifting course will be held Saturday June 25th. I encourage absolutely everyone [...]

Lifting Weights in the Wild Wild West

Yesterday’s US Powerlifting Federation 1st Raw Arizona State Meet in Tombstone, AZ was a lot of fun!! Your CrossFit Works competitors got some PRs all around and generally enjoyed ourselves. As always, the enjoyment came primarily from the fact that we had plenty of CrossFit Works people around to support us. Thanks to [...]

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 [...]

New Year’s Eggs

Don’t be alarmed. It isn’t that I’ve already had too much champagne to drink and got my holidays confused. I know that eggs usually go with Easter. But in our crossfitting nutrition world we take eggs whenever we can get them, especially free range, weed-eating, bug-munching, sun-bathing, keeping-it-in-the-family, raised chickens. Make one of [...]

Cheese in France will absolutely be good for you

We will miss Shannon for the next month since she will be in France preparing to get married to a French guy. Isn’t that romantic? Shannon is cool anyway. One of my favorite food books is called A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle. Makes me want to get a trust fund and start [...]