CrossFit
Fitness Fail Friday: These Guys Forgot One Important Thing
Each Friday, STACK brings you a video of an exercise gone horribly wrong. You may or may not learn something from it, but you will laugh very hard. This is [...]
Get a CrossFit Body Without CrossFit
We all know the look that I'm talking about... Lean, muscular, athletic, powerful. Male or female, this tends to be the idea physique. Not too muscular,...
Carl Paoli Outlines 4 Crucial Bodyweight Movements for Athletes of All Sports
Whether you are training for CrossFit or to compete at the elite level of another sport, former elite gymnast and renowned movement coach Carl Paoli believes four bodyweight exercises, when [...]
Fitness Fail Friday: Here’s What Happens When You Bench Without a Spotter
[youtube video="4T3A1m3gbb0" /] Each Friday, STACK brings you a video of an exercise gone horribly wrong. You may or may not learn something from it, but you will laugh very [...]
Fitness Fail Friday: The Worst First Day of CrossFit
[youtube video="-F0fNbllGAU" /] Meet Timmy. This is his first day of CrossFit. Because he’s an impressionable, earnest young man, Timmy dropped $200 on official CrossFit shorts (moisture wicking!) and barefoot [...]
The Trouble With Competitive Exercise
Competitive exercise and the inevitable downfalls of exercise as sport... The fitness industry is always looking for "what's next", and in the past...
STUDY: Eat More Fruits and Veggies, Live (Almost) Forever
Thinkstock Need another reason to swap the sandwich for a salad at lunch? A new study conducted at University College London and published in the Journal of Epidemiology [...]
6 Foods Every CrossFit Athlete Should Have in the Kitchen
Your workouts will only be as effective as the fuel you choose to power them with, and getting through a CrossFit workout is no easy task. Any advantage you can [...]
The Rhabdo Killer: 3 Keys to Preventing Rhabdomyolysis
On March 10, the Associated Press reported that William Lowe, a former University of Iowa football player, filed a lawsuit against the university accusing the coaching staff of negligence. According [...]
Why The NFL’s Best Can’t Crush CrossFit
AP Images The question has surfaced in conversations for years now, both within the CrossFit world and among its critics: What if one of the fittest athletes from [...]