Competition

Kristopher Germain, a new affiliate owner, and Olympic-lifting expert/CrossFit athlete Sage Burgener joined Justin on Episode 92 of CrossFit Radio, webcast live at 6 p.m. PDT on Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2009.

1:42 New affiliate owner Kristopher Germain joined us for the second installment in a series where we follow his progress as he starts a new affiliate. Kris updated us on what’s transpired with his affiliate over the last four weeks… Continue Reading

Hollis Molly of CrossFit Santa Cruz describes how the recent Santa Cruz affiliate competition came about a year and a half after the original CrossFit Santa Cruz moved to CrossFit Camp Pendleton.

The initiation of Operation Phoenix in March 2008 marked the end of the legendary CrossFit HQ, Greg and Lauren Glassman’s gym in Santa Cruz. With all the gear donated to the Marines and the lease up, it seemed as… Continue Reading

Athletes from CrossFit Calgary and CrossFit Central did extremely well at the 2009 CrossFit Games. In Part 1 of this two-part series, Mike Warkentin talks to James (OPT) FitzGerald and Brett (AFT) Marshall about their training secrets.

James (OPT) FitzGerald won the 2007 CrossFit Games. His training partner, Brett (AFT) Marshall, was two points behind in second place. In 2008, OPT was 12th and AFT was… Continue Reading

Dave Re was awarded title of Grand Master by the US Practical Shooting Association in September, 2007. It is their highest classification, but it didn’t mean that he was capable of winning major matches.

At 212 pounds, I was simply too slow to get off enough shots in a game that scored on quality and quantity. But I had hope that I could turn around that weakness in my game due to something I’d started a month… Continue Reading

Gillian Mounsey finished 3rd overall in the 2008 CrossFit Games. She had been training CrossFit specifically for only 12 weeks. But, as we find out in this profile from Again Faster, she has been training hard for about 16 years.

In this first of three parts, Gillian talks about her background, of fighting to do the boys’ workouts in junior high school, to beating the boys’ records in high school. She says that while… Continue Reading

Heather Keenan, 32, is a trainer at CrossFit New England, the strength and conditioning coach at Nobles School, a mom to two kids (Maya 8 and Jonah 4), and an aspiring 2009 CrossFit Games competitor.

In this three part video series, the Again Faster crew profile Heather, who came in 2nd place in Albany CrossFit’s East Coast Challenge last year, right behind Tanya Wagner. She recently passed her CrossFit Level… Continue Reading

This is the fifth episode of CrossFit Radio that aired 8AM PDT on October 19th, 2008.

0:00 Show Intro
3:13 Josh Bunch - Competitive bodybuilder using CrossFit
23:24 How to know you've been sipping too much of the Kool-Aid
26:15 "News" from ACSM and AHA
30:55 Nicole Carroll - CrossFit HQ Director of Training
49:10 Comments of the week
52:15 Brian Mackenzie - CrossFit Endurance

1hr 18min 23sec

“I am a competitive bodybuilder. Marathon workouts of each body part, attacking every muscle with 30-40 sets. Three hours of aerobic activity each day. Manipulate water and sodium until I was ripped out. Then I would get onstage - and lose.”

Josh Bunch was frustrated. He loved CrossFit for his clients, and had even affiliated his gym. “I loved watching my clients do their workouts and was jealous I couldn’t get in on the fun. Inevitably, I began to theorize. Why not modify… Continue Reading