Exercises

Chris Spealler got 100 consecutive pull-ups on his first attempt on video with Sevan Matossian and Carey Peterson. Or so he thought.

No one counted for Chris, and when they reviewed the tape, he had only done 99.

Ten days later, at the CrossFit Level 1 Trainer Summit, Chris tried again. His hands ripped so bad, the dripping blood became too slippery and he fell off the bar at 97 reps.

He tried… Continue Reading

Rob Orlando, owner of Hybrid Athletics in Stamford, CT, will be competing in the 2009 CrossFit Games even though he has never done Fight Gone Bad or Cindy. Rob is a strongman who began CrossFitting only about a year ago. At 5’ 8” and 196 lb. Rob hates Murph and loves double King Kong. His 1RM deadlift is 600 lb. Rob can press 254 lb., back squat 475 lb. and clean over 300 lb.

In this video, Rob… Continue Reading

Maggie Dabe from CrossFit Fairfax is one of CrossFit HQ’s traveling seminar trainers. She is originally from Ecuador, and explains our standard cues and faults for the air squat entirely in Spanish.

This is our first venture into foreign language instruction in a video. For a video containing similar content in English, see Andy Stumpf’s Simulated Level 2 Test. The rest of the core nine movements will be included in this series.

Maggie Dabe… Continue Reading

Tony Budding created a hypothetical client and a proposed workout to challenge the programming skills of Adrian (Boz) Bozman, Chris Spealler and E.C. Synkowski. Find out what these top trainers think of the WOD and share your opinion.

Steve is 42-year-old banker and has been CrossFitting for six months. He can do most of the main-site WODs as prescribed—some of them just barely. Steve often scales workouts back a little so he can keep… Continue Reading

Pat Sherwood is one of CrossFit HQ’s top trainers. He spends the majority of his time traveling around the world presenting at Level 1 and Level 2 seminars.

In this video, he is captured teaching the basic squat at the Maine State Police Criminal Justice Academy on June 19th, 2008. Even if you know the traits of a good squat, getting others to move well is a whole different story.

Pat uses a wide… Continue Reading

This is the first part of Episode 3 of the Boz and Todd Experience. This session took place at Black and Gold CrossFit in West Point, NY on April 25th and 26th, 2009.

In this episode, Boz coaches Ashley on her pullups. Ashley is a multisport athlete, competing in Olympic-style weightlifting, track (heptathlon), and rugby for the US Military Academy at West Point. Her best lifts are about 155lbs in the… Continue Reading

This is Part 7 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 several of… Continue Reading

Jolie Gentry from CrossFit One World won the 2007 CrossFit Games. She came in fifth in 2008, and she is a part of CrossFit HQ’s traveling Level 1 seminar team.

In this clip from Jordan Gravatt of CrossFit by Overload, Jolie teaches the push jerk to a small group of Level 1 participants at the CrossFit certification seminar at CrossFit San Diego on Saturday, February 28, 2009.

The push jerk is one of the greatest movements… Continue Reading