Results for “CrossFit Strength Bias”

CrossFit coaches detail their successful and unsuccessful programming experiments in the search for measurable, observable and repeatable results.

CrossFit athletes are a skeptical bunch. They like to experiment and tinker and tweak. For Kurtis Bowler that meant messing around with strength-biased programming for his affiliate, Rainier CrossFit.

“Every year or year-and-a-half, there’s an influx of newer people,” said the owner of the… Continue Reading

Motorcycle nomad Pat Sherwood is forced to embrace his weaknesses and finds he’s still got strengths.

I’m not a talented Olympic lifter, and that doesn’t bother me. I would get my ass kicked by Lindsey Valenzuela, Elisabeth Akinwale or Camille Leblanc-Bazinet using the same loading. I practice the snatch and the clean and jerk because of the positive adaptations they provide to… Continue Reading

In this video, HQ trainer Chris Spealler shares his programming insights at a Coaches Prep Course. His focus is explaining the difference between biasing CrossFit programming as opposed to targeting our programming.

Spealler says that CrossFit’s goal is general physical preparedness (GPP), so specialized goals of a three-minute mile or an 800-lb. back squat are not realistic.

“I want the best of both worlds,” he says.

Programming bias allows… Continue Reading

Join CrossFit Fort Vancouver as they discuss the programming that prepared them for their first-place finish in the 2010 CrossFit Games Affiliate Cup.

According to affiliate owner Adam Neiffer, the champions based their workouts on their weaknesses, especially overall strength and Olympic lifting. Programming was a team effort, allowing each member to have a vote and to program for the group. Although they rarely performed team workouts, the team members still… Continue Reading

John McBrien offers basic programming for single-sport and multi-sport athletes who are looking to improve their endurance while training with CrossFit.

In February 2003, Coach Greg Glassman wrote an article titled Theoretical Template for CrossFit’s Programming, which provided some of the rationale behind the workout of the day (WOD) and a foundation for understanding the specifics of CrossFit programming. Today, there has in many ways been an evolution in… Continue Reading

With 3,181 miles down, Ian Wittenber is so busy picking up interviews with CrossFit Games athletes that he hasn’t even stopped to shave. This time he’s visiting with South Central athlete Breck Berry and North Central athlete Stacie Tovar.

Berry has been CrossFitting for years. He’s been in the mix of the Games since 2007, with his top finish coming in that year (fifth). In 2010 he’ll be one of a… Continue Reading

Dave Castro is back with a group of top CrossFit athletes for a round-table discussion of training methodologies. Many of the athletes are preparing for the 2010 CrossFit Games.

In Part 1, the conversation turns toward the elusive subject of training volume, which proves to be a hot topic. Pat Barber defends the low-volume approach with a focus on intensity, while others in the crowd seem convinced that a strength-biased… Continue Reading

The individual PDF articles published in March 2010 are collected here in a single download.

The video and audio articles are not contained in the PDF.

The articles included here are:

Fournier - The Fish Go CrossFit
Seryak - CrossFit Westside?
Fernandez - Quality of Life, Not Leisure
Williams - Weakness Bias Training
Mason - Optimized Post-Workout Nutrition for the CrossFit Athlete
Sullivan - A Vote for CrossFit
Houghton - Get Some More
Kilgore - Running the… Continue Reading

Former NFL player Michael Houghton found CrossFit and then went back to strength training. Now he’s come full circle and believes CrossFit is the best program for him.

Over the past year. I have been experimenting with all sorts of programming besides CrossFit.

I started off going to the CrossFit Football Certification. At the cert, I got an itch to try some Olympic lifting. I got some shoes… Continue Reading

Dan Williams proposes CrossFit athletes are only as strong as their weakest links and suggests a way to train these weaknesses to produce better all-around athletes.

The essence of CrossFit lies in its ability to define the previously undefined. Pioneering definitions have been created for such concepts as fitness, health and work capacity. Let’s consider CrossFit as an adjective rather than a noun. I am CrossFit… Continue Reading

“I’m a meathead,” says strength and powerlifting expert Dave Tate of Elite FTS. “I have to do what I like. I want to make (my clients) stronger.”

Tate may be focused on the kind of strength that can produce an 800-lb. deadlift, but he understands that the average client wants to be good at everything, not great at anything in particular. Elite athletes, on the other hand, sacrifice competence in some fitness domains for high… Continue Reading

Jake Platt, owner of Northwest CrossFit (winners of the 2009 Affiliate Cup Challenge), and CrossFitting strongman Rob Orlando both appeared on Episode 87 of CrossFit Radio, webcast live at 6 p.m. PDT on Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2009.

2:08 Jake Platt talks about the culture he tries to foster at his two affiliates in Washington state. He explains how he keeps track of 500 members every month and discusses how and why he… Continue Reading

“Can you be fit and really strong? That’s the test right now,” says Rob Orlando of Hybrid Athletics in this Again Faster video.

A strongman competitor who discovered CrossFit and finished 22nd at the 2009 CrossFit Games, Orlando is now trying to prove that a 600-lb. deadlift doesn’t mean you have to have a three-minute 400-meter time and a max-pull-ups PR of two.

Orlando has always been a successful strongman competitor, but since discovering CrossFit he’s… Continue Reading

As promised, here are the individual PDF articles published in February 2009, collected together in a single download.

The video and audio articles are not contained in the PDF.

The articles included here are:

Page 1 - Miserandino - Getting an A in CrossFit
Page 5 - Martin & White - CrossFit Strength Bias
Page 16 - Lascek - Bow to Fran
Page 22 - Greene - Best of CrossFit 3
Page 27 - Berger - Straight-Talk Strength Express
Page 37… Continue Reading

This is the 31st episode of CrossFit Radio, which aired at 6pm PST on February 9th, 2009.

0:00 Intro
1:25 Jeff Martin from CrossFit Brand X
1:05:10 A letter from Michael Sawley about the 15 listeners

Jeff talked about his recent CrossFit Strength Bias article. He also explained his introduction to CrossFit and how Brand X and CrossFit Kids came about. They discussed the importance of CrossFit for kids… Continue Reading

How many times have we read on the CrossFit.com comments about people who think they need to do a separate strength program to get better at CrossFit? While we agree that increased strength will likely make you a better CrossFitter, the idea that you need to do a separate strength program is dead wrong. CrossFit is a strength and conditioning program. Says it right there in “What is CrossFit”! Leaving CrossFit for the… Continue Reading

Have you ever watched an infomercial or a shop-at-home network exercise equipment segment? If you have you will know that the formula is a slick spokesperson or salesperson, an exercise expert with lots of letters after their name, and an attractive and fit-looking model to demonstrate the equipment and make the pitch: "This equipment is so easy to use and so effective that you will be looking like Buffy and Biff here in just a… Continue Reading