Injury, like illness, is an ineluctable fact of life.

Our default pull-up — a violent, kipping, “anyhow” pull-up — has few supporters even among pull-up connoisseurs.

This month we examine “Fran,” one of our benchmark workouts. The opportunity this affords for insights into human performance, programming, and ways of measuring and motivating progress is strong.

First published by the U.S. Navy in 1944, Gymnastics and Tumbling is today an obscure reference in danger of extinction.

I am personally hopeful that pampering and advanced recuperative techniques will make a substantial difference. Wouldn’t that be cool?

Rising popularity of CrossFit within military and law enforcement circles has led to sufficient institutional and group adoption of our program to draw important lessons on the differences between traditional military PT and CrossFit PT.

This month we introduce six new beauties, “Isabel, Jackie, Karen, Linda, Mary, and Nancy.” You will certainly be seeing them in the lineup.

“Universal scaleability” is the language we’ve routinely used to suggest that your grandma could and should be working out with us.

We figured these six benchmarks were as good as any to demonstrate our concept of scalability. Here we offer versions of those workouts that have been “tuned down” in intensity and had exercises substituted to accommodate any audience.