Category: Articles
Category: Articles
We swing the kettlebell overhead while the kettlebell community swings to eye or shoulder height. No matter how many times we’re admonished for our excessive swing, we proceed unabated.
Learning the Olympic lifts is for too many athletes a shock of frustration and incompetence.
“Designed for universal scalability" finds its greatest challenge with bodyweight exercises – the stuff we call “gymnastics.”
The culture we endeavor to nurture within our community is focused on practice and results above theory and theory above personality.
For nearly 150 years the men that worked the rings were in possession of an upper-body strength that finds no equal in weightlifting or other calisthenics.
We explore the proposition that traditional “cardio” may be neither as distinct nor as powerful a contribution to general conditioning as widely believed.
Exercising without any regard to nutrition is similar to only having “one oar in the water.” Sound nutrition, obtained from a high-quality diet in optimal quantities—as determined by the individual—provides the necessary foundation for continued progress and maximum adaptations.
CrossFit is a strength and conditioning system built on constantly varied, if not randomized, functional movements executed at high intensity.
there is a strong consensus among scientists that our
heritage is deeply rooted in both climbing and bipedalism, i.e., both swinging from the trees and functioning on two feet.