CrossFit
CrossFit Workout Routine: 4 Hacks for Athletes
Crossfit has done great things for the world of health and fitness, and crossfitters these days are some of the nicest most badass people you're ever...
Bandwagon Workouts: Fitness Fads Rise and Fall. Will CrossFit Suffer a Similar Fate?
In the early 90s, gimmicky workouts like 8-Minute Abs were all the rage. In 2003, P90X came along, promising a total-body transformation in only 90 days. Now CrossFit is taking [...]
Who Invented the Burpee?
The Burpee is one of those exercises we love to hate, but we cannot deny its crazy heart-pumping benefits. CrossFit imposes a Burpee penalty for arriving late to class and [...]
Are Your CrossFit Friends Like This?
The latest video from College Humor takes on CrossFit, the fitness trend that's sweeping the nation. In the parody, two avid CrossFit participants explain their "habit" to two non-CrossFitters. "First rule [...]
CrossFit Plus MMA Equals One Intense Workout
I recently had the privilege of working out under the supervision of Ed Rush, a former boxer and lawyer-turned-personal trainer. Founder of In Fighting Shape, Rush merges high-intensity interval training, [...]
Queen of CrossFit: Julie Foucher
CrossFit is one of the most controversial sports out there. You either live by it or you think it’s a creepy muscular cult. But either way, you can’t deny that [...]
3 Months in a Box: Good, Bad and Weird Experiences Doing CrossFit
Depending on whom you ask, CrossFit is either the greatest innovation in fitness, a dangerous risk to humanity or an expensive waste of time. By now, everyone has seen photos [...]
In Defense of the Kipping Pull-Up, CrossFit’s Most Controversial Exercise
I’d been attending CrossFit workouts for two months before I began to learn the Kipping Pull-Up. Until that point, every Pull-Up I’d ever performed had been the more traditional strict, [...]
Cross These 3 Exercises Off Your CrossFit WOD
The global fitness pandemic that is CrossFit continues to enthrall and entice masses of athletes and fitness enthusiasts via high intensity protocols....
Don’t Blame CrossFit; It’s All About Coaching
keyword: crossfit coach I'll be very clear right away as to my biased position I hope to impress upon you throughout this article: your coach matters...