The design and crafting of workouts is CrossFit’s primary concern. Factors like impact, motivation, perception, recovery, and timing combine with decades of experience seasoned by luck and intuition to create our daily fare, the “Workout of the Day”.

An exceedingly simple lesson in anatomy and physiology key for effective coaching.

The deadlift keeps company with standing, running, jumping, and throwing for functionality but imparts quick and prominent athletic advantage like no other exercise.

We see the bulk of human action as being composed of a limited number of irreducible fundamental movements. These fundamental movements we call functional.

Interesting, intelligent, useful information about the pull-up is not easy to come by.

The king of all exercises.

Definitions of key concepts, such as VO2 max, lactate threshold and more.

In this issue we’ll look at the distinctions between aerobic and anaerobic exercise in detail, and examine interval training.

There are no bad intervals, only weak efforts. Variety and intensity will ultimately determine preparedness.