My Favorite Training Programs: Ring Mastery
I was standing in the plumbing aisle of our local Home Depot, holding a printed article from CrossFit.com. "Let's see...I need the 1.5" PVC...but they only have the 1.25" PVC..."…
I was standing in the plumbing aisle of our local Home Depot, holding a printed article from CrossFit.com. "Let's see...I need the 1.5" PVC...but they only have the 1.25" PVC..."…
Greg Everett is the founder of Catalyst Athletics, a weightlifting gym that was an early part of the CrossFit movement. He quit the CrossFit staff because he didn't like teaching…
Clocks add urgency. Clocks make it feel like a game. But the real purpose of a clock is benchmarking. If the measure of fitness is the ability to move large…
How to create exercise programs that keep people around for years Novelty gets them in the door. But in time, even "constantly varied functional movements performed at high intensity" becomes--well,…
by Ray Gowlett I was recently made aware of the ‘latest’ study on injury rates in the CrossFit community. A quick read of the abstract to the conclusion left the…
Written by Jennifer Broxterman, MSc, RDRegistered Dietitian, Founder of NutritionRx In Part 1, I started to share what my educational training and brainwashing included as I went through school to…
I’m shaking my head now, and I can feel many of you judging me and my education (or saying this is why Registered Dietitians suck), but at the time, I really thought I was paying for a top notch degree in Foods & Nutrition. I was eager to get out into the world and help others make positive food choices, and at the time, I really did think it was the best path to be able to serve others when it came to coaching healthy eating. I Was Brainwashed
Our sister company, Two-Brain Business, has been hard at work identifying grants that would bolster a gyms ability to remain open and profitable. This is an endeavor to help owners…
Every client should have an individual coaching prescription, even if he or she exercises in a group. Group classes are sometimes even more effective than 1:1 coaching because of the…
This week, I've been writing about coaching the four elements of health: Sleep, Eat, Move, Manage (SEMM). Read: Programming for Sleep / Eat / Move / Manage I wrote about…