In Athletes, Competition, CrossFit
September 15, 2008
After an inactive youth, and a bout with a serious auto-immune disease, Jenn Hunter was frustrated and overweight. She joined a women-only club, training hard for six months before venturing into her local Gold's Gym. After working with a trainer there, she competed successfully in bodybuilding for a few years. The routine was the traditional bodybuilding regimen, and the constant dieting combined with thousands of… Continue Reading
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This is a section of Jeff Martin's opening lecture for the CrossFit Kids certification seminar on July 28, 2008. Kids, he says, don't just need scaled workouts. They need to have fun, first and foremost. They need to be instructed in a way that makes sense to their developing perspective on the world. And, they need challenges.
Brand X is the CrossFit Kids Laboratory. What they're developing are kids whose approaches to… Continue Reading
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In Combatives, LEO/Mil, Videos
September 14, 2008
Tony Blauer of Blauer Tactical introduces a series of real world groundfighting drills. Designed originally for law enforcement and military scenarios, the drills shown in this video have been adapted to personal street defense. The four drills are:
1. Flexors vs Extensors
2. Legs Only
3. Inside the Legs
4. Protecting the Advantage
Tony Blauer is a pioneer in scenario-based combatives, and has specialized in techniques to survive a surprise… Continue Reading
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In Olympic Lifts, Videos
September 11, 2008
Coach Burgener continues his session with Nick Hawkes on the snatch. In this video, Coach B takes him through the setup position and initial pulls, and a drill called halting deadlifts. Nick was setting up too high and not keeping the bar back in the initial pull. Halting deadlifts are another drill to train proper positioning through the initial pulls. 4min 39sec
Here is the previous entry: Part 1.
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September 09, 2008
Kallista Pappas was 14 years old when she delivered a performance at the 2008 CrossFit Games that inspired an entire community. At an age when many kids are merely hanging out at the mall, Kallista, a home-schooled gymnast who lives in Seattle, Washington, was training gymnastics five hours per day and throwing in CrossFit workouts three times a week too.
“Looking back now, this workout (Sunday’s 30… Continue Reading
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This video was captured during the CrossFit Level 1 Certification Seminar at GSX in Fort Worth, TX on March 2nd, 2008. Robb Wolf explains the role of hyperinsulinism in the deadly quartet (hyperinsulinism, hypertriglyceridemia, upper body obesity, hypertension), and the role of diet in producing or avoiding hyperinsulinism. 8min 14sec… Continue Reading
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Colonel Bryan P. McCoy is a published author on combat leadership (The Passion of Command: The Moral Imperative of Leadership) and is the subject of the book McCoy’s Marines: Darkside to Baghdad by embedded reporter John Koopman. He is currently the Commanding Officer of the 7th Marine Regiment, Twentynine Palms, California.
He attended the CrossFit Level 1 Certification seminar in Valencia, CA on August 18-19, 2007. Coach Glassman invited him… Continue Reading
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In LEO/Mil
September 05, 2008
The work of a military fighter pilot is often described as long periods of mind-numbing boredom interspersed with short periods of stark terror....One of the ever-present threats is the effects of operating in a high G-force environment. The most dangerous of these is the pooling of blood in the lower extremities, which can cause G-induced loss of consciousness (G-LOC). G-LOC has claimed numerous pilots' lives. To counter the effects of blood pooling and… Continue Reading
