In CrossFit, HD Videos, Sports Applications
February 08, 2012
Band sprints are no joke.
“It gets a little serious ... especially if you’ve never done ’em right,” Raphael Ruiz says during a CrossFit Football Trainer Course.
He instructs the group on how to do band sprints safely and effectively. Build up to the sprint and then kick up the asphalt, Ruiz explains. The goal is to teach athletes speed, not to provide so much resistance that they’re barely moving.
“We’re not trying to make this an… Continue Reading
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In CrossFit, Sports Applications, Videos
February 07, 2012
In Vermont, there is no high-school swimming, so in the Burlington area, students go to Green Mountain Aquatics on the campus of Saint Michael’s College.
Laura Matuszak has been there for 15 years. She owns and operates the USA Swimming club, and she’s also the head coach. The team, which competes as far away as California, began doing CrossFit as part of its so-called “dry-land training” in the last year and a half. It’s a great departure… Continue Reading
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In CrossFit, Gymnastics/Tumbling, Videos
February 06, 2012
CrossFit Santa Cruz’s Laurie Galassi, a gymnast and the fifth-place finisher at the 2011 NorCal Regional, shares her coaching tips for mastering the pull-up. In Part 2 of the series, she focuses on timing—the moment of weightlessness, to be specific.
“When I snap from arch to hollow, in the back of my swing I find this little weightless moment only if I come to an aggressive stop,” Galassi says. “If your rhythm is correct and if you’re… Continue Reading
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In CrossFit
February 06, 2012
Flowmaster and self-described “slow learner” Pat Sherwood shares wisdom acquired over six years of CrossFit training.
August marked the end of my sixth year of CrossFit, and let me tell you, it has been one hell of a ride. Since 2005, I’ve gone from watching Greg Amundson’s WOD demos on CrossFit.com while working a real-estate job that I did not enjoy to working for CrossFit Headquarters, teaching Level 1… Continue Reading
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In CrossFit, Medical/Injuries, Videos
February 05, 2012
Kevin Miller was 325 lb. when he found CrossFit through a chance encounter in a bar. Once he started, he was gung-ho, working out five times a week and wholeheartedly adopting the Paleo Diet. It was that attitude, arguably, that got him into trouble.
During a CrossFit Total, Miller had an accident that threatened to leave him without the use of his legs.
In Part 1, Miller and CrossFit New Haven trainers Eric and Carla O’Brien talk… Continue Reading
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In the summer of 2010, Lou Callejas, his wife and son went to Houston to visit his parents. His brother, who lived in Tucson, was there, too.
“He was lookin’ pretty nice. He had a nice body. He was lookin’ pretty tough, pretty ripped,” Callejas said.
Turns out his brother had been CrossFitting. At that time, Callejas was 5 foot 8 and about 205 lb. For the previous five or six years, he had been “sitting down on the… Continue Reading
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In CrossFit, HD Videos, Olympic Lifts
February 03, 2012
When Kulsoom Abdullah found CrossFit Atlanta several years ago, it was her desire to learn the Olympic lifts that brought her there.
“I had the drive. I really wanted to learn lifting, and I really wanted to go do it,” she says.
She either ignored the stares or tried to be assertive and talk to people. But not all women are like that, notes Abdullah, who last year became the first woman to lift in sanctioned U.S… Continue Reading
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In Affiliation, CrossFit, Videos
February 02, 2012
Steve and Jessica Pinkerton started their affiliate out of their garage. About 15 people showed up to train there. A few months later—in April 2010—they “pulled the trigger” and opened CrossFit Vitality in Concord, N.C.
“It grew really fast, really quick,” Steve says. “That first year was a blur.”
Before that, Jessica had been a stay-at-home mom.
“This is actually the first time I’ve had a regular outside-of-the-home job,” she says.
Today, the couple has 11… Continue Reading
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