Basics

This is the sixth and concluding part of the Programming lecture from the CrossFit Level 1 certification seminar at CrossFit One World in Union City, CA on May 11, 2008.

Dave Castro covers a few scaling options before addressing the three-on, one-off cycle of training, which maximizes power output for conditioned athletes, and when and why alternatives should be considered. He also talks about missing workouts without worrying about… Continue Reading

This is Part 2 of the second episode of the Boz and Todd Experience. Boz and Todd, with special guest Chris Spealler, conducted four training sessions at Front Range CrossFit. Except for scheduling the athletes, these sessions were unplanned. They met with the athletes for the first time that night, interviewed them about their strengths and weaknesses, and took them through a training session and workout. Real world training with… Continue Reading

This is the second part of a complete training session that Mary Conover, 77, had with Jim Baker at CrossFit Santa Cruz Central, where he is a trainer and co-owner.

Mary talks about some of the challenges of working out as she gets older, as well as the amazing impact the training has had on all aspects of her life. You learn to never give up, she says.

This video is the… Continue Reading

This is the first part of a complete training session that Mary Conover, 77, had with Jim Baker at CrossFit Santa Cruz Central, where he is a trainer and co-owner.

Mary tells a little of her history, which is also covered in her 2004 article A CrossFit Grandma. Mary has been training CrossFit for almost nine years, having to deal with a lifetime of bad posture, decades of inactivity, and some more serious… Continue Reading

In A Better Warm-up, Coach Glassman wrote, “We need a warm-up that will increase body temperature and heart rate, provide some stretching, stimulate the entire body and major biomechanical functions, provide practice for basic movements, and finally, prepare for rigorous athletic training.”

Adrian Bozman and Todd Widman are two of CrossFit’s top trainers. They spend a significant portion of their time traveling around the country working the CrossFit… Continue Reading

CrossFit beginners have special needs. They need to learn how to correctly perform exercises and also to build the general and specific fitness to endure intense WODs (Workouts of the Day). One tool that CrossFit Silicon Valley has found useful to help create a strong foundation is what they call the “SV Beginner’s Ladder,” a relatively simple routine that ramps newbies up toward prescribed CrossFit benchmarks.

The Beginner’s Ladder focuses on three… Continue Reading

Speaking of talk radio (which I was last month), Mike McConnell, the best talk show host currently on the air anywhere in the country, has suggested that the single most important contributing factor in the "obesity epidemic" is the relatively recent introduction of air conditioning and heating. This makes a huge amount of sense, given the fact that most of the time we're inside we are sitting on our asses and… Continue Reading

Public school physical education stinks. Along with that, we see record obesity, record low fitness, and record low activity levels among school-age kids in the United States. How many schools in the U.S. have a requirement for daily physical education? How many schools provide adequate staff, equipment, and time for physical education so it has a chance at being effective?

Although administrators everywhere in the U.S. will say… Continue Reading