November 11, 2012
A couple of years ago, Mike Ute started doing CrossFit in a 7-foot-square space in the gym on the Wind River Reservation in Fort Washakie, Wyo. He found the one barbell in the entire place and some old bumper plates, and he did Fran.
“I started to believe that CrossFit was going to be the way for everybody to become more fit,” says Ute, of the Eastern Shoshone Tribe.
Then he told his friend of 10 years, Cody… Continue Reading
Free Download
Comment
In Coaching, CrossFit, Gymnastics/Tumbling, HD Videos
November 09, 2012
There are many ways to teach the kipping-pull-up progression, and they’re all designed to help athletes understand the gymnastics movement. For Level 1 Seminar Staff member Cherie Chan, the teaching progression starts with the “dead bug.”
“We’re gonna go in what’s called kind of a dead bug,” Chan says to an athlete struggling with the movement. “So your feet are going to go to the sky and point your toes.”
The athlete… Continue Reading
Free Download
Comment
In HD Videos
November 08, 2012
At CrossFit Fever in Pembroke Pines, Fla., there is a strong connection to the U.S. military. Co-owner Jorge Vega served with the Marines, and coach Natalia Martinez served as an Army officer. Many of their members hail from similar backgrounds. Likewise, the two try to instill military values in their community.
Still, Martinez says her job doesn’t feel like a job at all.
“Seeing people, for example, do a pull-up on a green… Continue Reading
Free Download
Comment
Tracy Munroe’s boss brought her and 39 of her co-workers across the street to Reebok CrossFit Ramsay in Calgary, Alta.
“(He) thought it’d be good (for) team/morale building,” she explains.
A year later, only Munroe and one of her co-workers remain as members of the box. She remembers feeling intimidated but stuck it out and has seen impressive gains.
“It was scary,” she says of her first days. “I would literally stand across the… Continue Reading
Free Download
Comment
In Gymnastics/Tumbling, HD Videos
November 06, 2012
At this CrossFit Gymnastics Advanced Trainer Course, instructor Sean Lind shows how to establish support on the rings before pressing to a shoulder stand. The position is the foundation for performing a handstand push-up on the rings.
“In gymnastics, this is a very basic movement. But for our CrossFitters, this is going to be an advanced movement,” he explains.
Lind demonstrates by beginning in an L-sit. He moves his… Continue Reading
Free Download
Comment
In Coaching, HD Videos, Olympic Lifts, Reference
November 05, 2012
After 45 years of coaching Olympic weightlifting, Mike Burgener still assesses athletes the same way: stance, grip, position.
“You just eyeball it real quick and you make the changes right away,” he says during this CrossFit Olympic Weightlifting Trainer Course.
After that, it’s the five-step Burgener Warm-Up.
First is the down and up for developing speed through the middle. The hips must open and the shoulders come up.
“Now the… Continue Reading
Free Download
Comment
In Athletes, Coaching, CrossFit, HD Videos, Level 1 Seminar Staff
November 04, 2012
When Neal Maddox was 9, he started doing push-ups and sit-ups every day in his bedroom.
Maddox’s uncles were large men and his dad “was really big and buff,” so he wanted to keep up. Maddox ended up playing Division II collegiate football and spent some time with the San Jose Sabercats.
“I worked my butt off since I was a kid,” says the CrossFit Level 1 Seminar Staff member who owns CrossFit X-Treme Athletics in San Jose, Calif.
“Lifting… Continue Reading
Free Download
Comment
Last year, Tyler Berry was working as a trainer at Hanscom Air Force Base while preparing to compete in the North East Regional. Training twice a day, he began to notice slower workout times.
“I would do 100 burpees or Fran or something like that, and the second I finished, I would just start coughing up pretty legitimate-size blood clots,” says the coach at CrossFit 2A in Acton, Mass.
Berry discovered a “huge… Continue Reading
