Knowing the finer points of a movement is important to being a great trainer, but it might be equally important to be a passionate, energetic person who creates a great atmosphere and motivates clients.
You can know everything there is to know about squatting, but you’ll be lecturing to an empty gym if you don’t have the skills to use that knowledge to help clients who don’t care about physics, anatomy and biomechanics.
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In CrossFit, Powerlifting
March 04, 2010
Tom Seryak is an affiliate owner who used Westside methods for a period before he started CrossFit. He has done both separately but has now combined them for over a year. He offers strategies for trainers looking for ways to integrate the two programs.
For CrossFitters who are intrigued by the methods used at Westside Barbell, the pertinent question to ask is, “How do I incorporate them into my CrossFit training?”
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In Affiliation, CrossFit
February 20, 2010
Original CrossFitters Greg and Mallee Amundson share lessons learned as athletes at the historic CrossFit Headquarters on how to establish and grow a world-class garage gym.
My wife Mallee and I were blessed with great opportunities in CrossFit while living in Santa Cruz, Calif. Although life was ideal in Santa Cruz, the nature of working for the federal government requires flexibility and an advance agreement to… Continue Reading
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In CrossFit
February 16, 2010
Blair Morrison visits Germany and the Czech Republic and discovers CrossFit culture is growing quickly in Europe.
In the five days I spent in Germany and Czech Republic, I was exposed to a range of histories and cultures about which I knew very little. If I had only ridden the train to Prague and back, never getting off, I would have experienced growth. But from a broader, more global fitness… Continue Reading
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In Affiliation, Coaching, CrossFit, Videos
February 04, 2010
Do you remember your first CrossFit seminar? Thinking about taking the plunge? Well, four clients of CrossFit by Overload decided to attend the Level 1 cert on Jan. 9-10, 2010, at the University of San Diego in California.
Jon and Kathryn Hults, Michele Smith, and Nick Benavides all took their CrossFitting to the “next level” in spite of their worries of not being “ready.” They have all had excellent training in their box… Continue Reading
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The best teachers can simplify the most complex concepts, and Coach Greg Glassman always did so by including a session at the whiteboard before workouts at the original CrossFit gym in Santa Cruz.
Back in front of the board, Coach Glassman and Tony Budding discuss the basic concepts that hold up CrossFit’s definition of core strength. A line—the midline—can be drawn through the integration of the pelvis and the spine, and this line is profoundly important to… Continue Reading
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In Affiliation, CrossFit, Videos
January 22, 2010
As co-founder of an open-source fitness program, Greg Glassman views himself as sitting in the caboose, not the locomotive.
Speaking at a CrossFit 101 seminar held at CrossFit Long Island City on Oct. 9, 2009, Coach explained that the people driving CrossFit are the athletes and trainers in boxes and garages from Helsinki to Sydney to Santa Cruz. Communities are developing within each box, and the global CrossFit community is a truly special… Continue Reading
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In early December 2009, Chris Spealler visited CrossFit Sri Ram Ashram, an orphanage outside of Haridwar, India. In this video he teaches young athletes how to program an effective workout that can challenge both the average athlete and the firebreather.
In Part 1, Speal explains the distinctions between the three categories of exercises: gymnastics, weightlifting and metabolic monostructural.
In Part 2, he explains how… Continue Reading
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