In Affiliation
December 01, 2007
We've all heard the phrase, "Build it, and they will come." Maybe, but will they stick around? If you provide the environment, experience, and expertise, will they become your long-term trainees and your word-of- mouth marketers? Will they enable you to quit your other full-time job and do just this for a living? Will your business provide you the life (and income) that you want and deserve?
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In Affiliation
December 01, 2007
Spend time browsing the threads on the affiliate section of the CrossFit message board and you will quickly discover that many new affiliates sooner or later face the same dilemma: "Should I set up my own box or work out of an existing gym?" Neither option appears particularly attractive when starting out. Setting up your own box seems dauntingly expensive and sends waves of doubt through… Continue Reading
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In Running
December 01, 2007
What is the definition of good running technique? There isn;t one. But why? These are questions that Pose running's founder Dr. Nicolas Romanov has asked since 1979 and that I've been asking, well, since "shin splints" entered my personal lexicon. So what is good running style then?
There are laws that govern us all and there is no changing the way gravity affects us. In every sport the… Continue Reading
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In this excerpt from one of his talks at a recent CrossFit certification seminar, founder Greg Glassman discusses the methods and rationale of CrossFit. Fundamentally, what we are about, he explains, is evidence-based fitness. Here he breaks that claim down into its constituent parts and explains the logical, scientific basis of the CrossFit system for advancing human performance. To evaluate any such system, there are three key elements that must be… Continue Reading
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December 01, 2007
Last year, Lee Smolin published a book with a most provocative title: The Trouble with Physics: The Rise of String Theory, the Fall of a Science, and What Comes Next. This title promises brimstone for the fire of creationism, and that should sell an extra few thousand copies.
If mathematics is the Queen of Science (borrowing from Mathematics: Queen and Servant of Science, a classic by Eric Temple Bell), then… Continue Reading
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In Powerlifting, Videos
December 01, 2007
Coaching, according to expert lifting coach Mark Rippetoe, is no more than figuring out what to say to people to get them to move how you want them to move. This will vary from person to person, so, as a trainer, your bag of tricks--your ways of explaining and cueing movement and mechanics--must be broad and diverse. But, before that, you need to understand exactly what's going on in the mechanics of lifting and the body positions it… Continue Reading
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In Rowing
December 01, 2007
Some of you may remember reading Peter Dreissigacker's article here last winter about training for a personal record (PR) in a 2000m indoor rowing time trial. He also described the CRASH-B Sprints, a.k.a. the World Indoor Rowing Championships, held each February in Boston. Well, it's almost indoor rowing race season again, and this time we're giving you some lead time so you can fine- tune your 2K PR in time to… Continue Reading
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