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Craig T. Wood
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    19 years, 4 months ago

    Garage Gym II - The Revolution

    We revisit the CrossFit garage-gym concept to report on the successes of what may be hundreds of CrossFit start-up gyms and the aspirations and motivations of the people behind them.

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    19 years, 8 months ago

    Fooling Around With Fran

    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.

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    19 years, 10 months ago

    What About Recovery?

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

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    19 years, 11 months ago

    CrossFit PT

    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…

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    20 years ago

    The New Girls

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

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    20 years, 2 months ago

    Medicine Ball Cleans

    Learning the Olympic lifts is for too many athletes a shock of frustration and incompetence.

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    20 years, 3 months ago

    Assistance for Bodyweight Exercises

    “Designed for universal scalability” finds its greatest challenge with bodyweight exercises – the stuff we call “gymnastics.”

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    20 years, 4 months ago

    Why Fitness?

    The culture we endeavor to nurture within our community is focused on practice and results above theory and theory above personality.

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    20 years, 5 months ago

    What About Cardio?

    We explore the proposition that traditional “cardio” may be neither as distinct nor as powerful a contribution to general conditioning as widely believed.

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    20 years, 6 months ago

    Meal Plans

    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 nec…

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    20 years, 8 months ago

    What Is CrossFit?

    CrossFit is a strength and conditioning system built on constantly varied, if not randomized, functional movements executed at high intensity.

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    20 years, 10 months ago

    Handstands

    Handstands, hand walking, and pressing to the handstand are critical exercises to developing your athletic potential and essential components to becoming fit.

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    Greg Glassman wrote a new post

    21 years ago

    Nutrition: Avoiding Metabolic Derangement

    An introduction to the ongoing diet wars.

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    21 years, 2 months ago

    Benchmark Workouts

    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 d…

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    21 years, 3 months ago

    The Deadlift

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

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    Greg Glassman wrote a new post

    21 years, 3 months ago

    Pull-ups

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

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    Greg Glassman wrote a new post

    21 years, 3 months ago

    Functionality and Wall Ball

    We see the bulk of human action as being composed of a limited number of irreducible fundamental movements. These fundamental movements we call functional. They include, but are not limited to, squatting,…

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    Greg Glassman wrote a new post

    21 years, 5 months ago

    Metabolic Conditioning Glossary

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

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    21 years, 5 months ago

    Metabolic Conditioning

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

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    21 years, 6 months ago

    3 Important Ab Exercises

    Coach Glassman explains the points of performance for the GHD sit-up, L-sit, and hollow rock.

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