My CrossFit blog that occasionally dabbles into the rest of my life.
I hate the term hack.
Whenever I see that word used on a blog, I expect to read about how to make something out of a bunch of junk or toast multiple pieces of bread with coat hangers. No thanks.
For those hacks that actually have merit, the hack is more of an efficiency. And if you know me, you know I love efficiencies.
I have four efficiencies that will improve your Helen WOD time. No funky accessories needed. [Read more…]
Hello! Hey. Hi. What’s up?
These are the words we speak when greeting someone. Sometimes these greetings are accompanied by a smile or a nod of the head. Other times the words are mixed with hand gestures.
Hand gestures. Hand shakes. Hand waves. Hand other things.
Our acknowledgements turn into encouragements in the midst of battle aka WODs.
I’ve rounded up the best hand gesture greetings, tossed them into a tournament, and determined a winner for Most Likely That You Should Be Using At Your CrossFit Box. Read on for full results. [Read more…]
I’ve been needing to get this post done for a while. I’m experiencing CrossFit-post writer’s block, so instead of me providing you something to read and think about, I’ll simply direct you to more of the wonderful bloggers I enjoy reading!
I wish I had time to read all the blogs I want to every day but my schedule simply doesn’t allow it.
Here are some more of my favorite reads that I know you’ll appreciate as well. [Read more…]
First things first, I’m not going to write a creative or fun intro. This post is going to reveal the direction I’m going to proceed in with this blog. Just click the little button and read the rest of this post… you know what to do. [Read more…]
I’m sitting in a waiting room while my car gets its brakes replaced.
I knew this moment was coming. I heard the grinding noise emanating from my right rear tire when I depressed the brakes. I brushed the noise over to the I’ll get to it later category.
Well, later became abso-freaking-lutely right now.
Oops. [Read more…]
I can feel it coming in the air tonight.
Man, I love that song. I mean, who doesn’t play the air drums during that brief, beautiful drum solo? Actually, I dig quite a few Phil Collins songs, but I reckon that’s fodder for a discussion on down the road.
My point with this post is, I can feel IT coming. What is IT? I don’t exactly know… but I feel IT. [Read more…]
There we were, waiting. Waiting for that word. That word that brings a chill down our spine and starts our stomachs churning.
Burpees.
We hadn’t had burpees yet in the 2015 CrossFit Open. There have, historically, always been burpees in the Open. It was just a matter of how many and what variation.
And then, as Castro ticked off a rep scheme of 27/27-21/21-15/15-9/9, we all assumed burpees were one of the movements.
And we were all wrong. [Read more…]
You remember Jeff Foxworthy, right?
He was the guy that came up with the “You might be a redneck if…” routine. There were beautiful gems such as:
Amazing.
Let’s do that, but with a CrossFit twist -> You might be a CrossFitter if… [Read more…]
You would think that with all the math and explanation needed for this workout, the engineer in me would’ve loved the 2015 CrossFit Open WOD 15.4.
…nope.
