Kids

Jeff Martin talks about kids participating in the CrossFit Games and in CrossFit in general. Jeff and his wife Mikki run CrossFit Kids.

Kallista Pappas received the most notoriety for her performance in the Finals. Jeff talks about her incredible competitive spirit combined with her lack of fear and commitment to great mechanics. And she wasn’t the only one. There were several teenagers competing against, and beating, adults.

Jeff also… Continue Reading

Jeff Martin talks about the challenges of working with teenagers, and the changes that happen with growth spurts. Jeff and his wife Mikki run CrossFit Kids. In growth spurts, the bones can grow faster than the muscles, and kids that move really well can suddenly have trouble. Loading up these kids right after a spurt can possibly do more harm than good.

In addition to identifying the dangers, Jeff covers some remedial… Continue Reading

Vince Miserandino, M.Ed., is a CrossFit Level I Trainer, Teacher, and Coach at St. John’s Preparatory School in Danvers, Massachusetts. He writes about the impact CrossFit has had at St. John’s: they are officially offering a CrossFit class.

As a Physical Education teacher and strength coach for the last 10 years, I’ve long had a vision of what I believed a high-school physical education program should be. I’ve found it in CrossFit… Continue Reading

Lisa Bakshi is a 2nd grade teacher in San Diego, California. She has been CrossFitting for a few years, and recently introduced CrossFit Kids workouts to her class. She has seen a statistically significant improvement in their academic performance. She wonders if there is something universally applicable here.

Fact 1: America is falling behind the rest of the world in the classroom.
Fact 2: Classroom time devoted to math and language arts—and to… Continue Reading

Jeff Martin shows his progression for teaching young kids how to deadlift. Jeff and his wife Mikki run CrossFit Kids. He explains why barbells are less important for kids, how cues like the Angry Gorilla came to be, and why they're so important for teaching kids.

Kids are not just little adults. They don’t think about their bodies the way adults do, so they don’t respond to the same cues. Uniformity, repetition… Continue Reading

Rashmi Cole has spent most of the last two decades helping children in India. She runs Sri Ram Ashram, an orphanage, school, and medical clinic in the small village of Shyampur, near the city of Haridwar in northern India.

The years in India were hard on her health. She dabbled with CrossFit in 2005, and started in earnest in early 2007. She has found great success, and is stronger and… 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 2… Continue Reading

Andrea Nitz is the founder of CrossFit Mom, and explains why a executing a wide variety of functional movements at relatively high intensity is also good for pregnant women.

“Is it safe to exercise while pregnant?” is an age-old question. In earlier times, pregnant women were told to stay in bed and rest, due to their “delicate” condition. Even today, some doctors will tell their pregnant patients not to do anything… Continue Reading