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On Episode 206 of CrossFit Radio, host Justin Judkins interviewed Nicole Tanzillo, who is one of CrossFit Central’s success stories. This episode also featured a segment on Corey Auger by Emily Beers, and Justin interviewed one of the original Nasty Girls, Annie Sakamoto. This episode was webcast live at 6 p.m. PDT on Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2012.

The WOW (Workout of the Week) is from CrossFit Recoil.

Row: 5 minutes for… Continue Reading

When it comes to food, kids and teens require a special approach. Shannon Jones offers some advice.

An integral component of CrossFit Kids programming is a focus on nutrition, which is vital to facilitate healthy levels of activity. However, nutrition can be a sensitive topic.

While some of us CrossFit Kids trainers might possess strong opinions on how children should eat, we need to remain cautious in how we present our nutritional… Continue Reading

Lauren Lesinski enters the body challenge contest at her CrossFit box and breaks a lifelong cycle of yo-yo dieting. Hilary Achauer reports.

Lauren Lesinski admits she is not the best loser. As she puts it, “I don’t even like losing baking contests at work. Which, by the way, is what helped get me in this mess to begin with.”

“This mess” refers to the state of Lesinski’s health in March… Continue Reading

Food should not only taste good but also look good. These eggs come out looking like a little bouquet of flowers, especially when served on a bed of greens.

And who doesn’t like flowers?

Travis Harkey, owner of CrossFit North Atlanta, says creating a kids program was a priority when he opened his gym. He shares his experiences starting CrossFit Kids North Atlanta.

“The whole essence of CrossFit is play, and, I mean, it’s a natural fit,” he says.

According to Harkey, the first hurdle was getting trainers qualified to coach kids because, at the time, the only seminars were held in Ramona, Calif., at CrossFit… Continue Reading

In his cooking series, Nick Massie prepares meals showing how to apply the CrossFit dietary prescription of meat and vegetables, nuts and seeds, some fruit, little starch and no sugar. In this segment, Massie wraps bacon around sweet potatoes to make a delicious side dish.

Massie steams the sweet potatoes by wrapping them in foil and roasting them on a sheet pan for 1 hour to 1 hour 15 minutes in a 350… Continue Reading

To find the perfect blend of programming, mentality and diet for an aspiring Games athlete, Emily Beers looks at the approach of four 2011 competitors.

Like thousands of other CrossFitters around the world, I have openly proclaimed my desire to qualify to the CrossFit Games as an individual in 2012. I’ve competed at the Home Depot Center twice with CrossFit Vancouver, but I haven’t let go of the… Continue Reading

The individual PDF articles published in November 2011 are collected here in a single download.

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

The articles included here are:

Keeping Kids Corralled - Martin
The Kitchen WOD - Massie
“I WOD for Ted Hoyt” - Goodson
Climbing the Urban Jungle - Ford
Breakfast Pizza - Brown/Dazet
Bearing the Standards - Tucker/Hyland
New Jersey Gets Nasty - Achauer
In Service to Their Country - Wagner
Run, Baby, Run! - Achauer
Talking a Good Game… Continue Reading

In his cooking series, Denver’s Nick Massie prepares meals showing how to apply the CrossFit dietary prescription of meat and vegetables, nuts and seeds, some fruit, little starch and no sugar. In this segment, Massie makes fine dining for the holidays easy as he prepares prime rib and horseradish sauce.

For the prime rib, he uses a 19-lb. rib roast and rinses it before trimming away some of the fat.

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Tired of moaning about boring meals? Change the presentation, add a few extras and have your little cave-people eating rather than complaining.

“Mom, I don’t want to eat an apple. Ugh!”

Are your young ones bored with your Paleo foods? Keep them happy eating healthy with variety! Instead of giving them the same old apple to munch on, feed them this variation of crunch.

Warning: whining is severely reduced when feeding your children fun… Continue Reading

Everyone loves pizza, and with a few tweaks you can make your pie a healthier treat for your young athletes.

Sometimes it’s hard to get your kids to eat breakfast. When that happens, get crafty and combine one of their favorite foods—pizza—with eggs to go.

This Paleo pizza is a sure-fire hit. It’s easy to make and easy to modify with your family’s favorite breakfast toppings.

Mise en Place: CrossFitting chef Nick Massie on how to make cooking fast and enjoyable.

Food—we all eat it, and most of us enjoy it. Some look to it for comfort, while others see it strictly as fuel.

However you view food, there is one resounding truth: it can be a daunting task to learn to prepare it well. From planning a weekly menu to shopping, storing, cooking and cleaning up afterward, a lot… Continue Reading

The individual PDF articles published in October 2011 are collected here in a single download.

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

The articles included here are:

Bar None - Martin
Level Up? -Martin
Coaching Fitness From Scratch - Vincent
Sneaky Fungi - Brown/Dazet
Training the Mind - Cecil
When Murph Met Cindy - Beers
Dialing It In - Takano
The Kids Are All Right - Achauer
Cops and Robbers - Atkinson
Taking It to the People… Continue Reading

It’s a bird!

It’s a plane!

No, it’s a “nutterfly,” and it makes for a delicious snack.

Dr. John Berardi runs PrecisionNutrition.com, a “nutrition coaching” website where members pay to access nutrition information, online support, exercise programs and more. Dr. Berardi boasts an impressive list of academic credentials, and he’s also worked with Olympians and professional athletes.

In this series filmed during a special presentation at CrossFit Marina, Dr. Berardi explains his coaching style and advises how to reach your clients and help… Continue Reading

On Episode 193 of CrossFit Radio, host Justin Judkins interviewed Dr. Brian Moore, as well as James Hobart, who competed for CrossFit New England as the box won the Affiliate Cup at the 2011 Reebok CrossFit Games. This episode was webcast live at 6 p.m. PDT on Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2011.

The WOD of the Week was from CrossFit Inferno.

Complete the following:
Ring push-ups
Deadlift (275/185 lb.)
10-8-6-4-2 reps of above prescription
200… Continue Reading

At the 2011 Reebok CrossFit Games, CrossFit founder and CEO Greg Glassman sat down with Fast Company Magazine to talk about CrossFit.

In this segment, Coach shares the origins of CrossFit”s dietary prescription: meat and vegetables, nuts and seeds, some fruit, little starch and no sugar.

In 1995, Glassman says he took a year off from training to travel with the founder of the Zone Diet, Dr. Barry Sears.

“We had a revolutionary message at the… Continue Reading

CrossFitter John Post, a competitor on the ABC series Expedition Impossible, is also the proud owner of a farm. Sweet Peeps Farm is located in Dyke, Va., and jointly owned by Post, his sister Stephanie and their friend Marissa.

On the farm, the Posts have goats, pigs, and egg-laying chickens and broilers. The chickens forage in the grass in pens that are rotated on a daily basis across their land.

“We also have the most wonderful… Continue Reading

It’s Wednesday night, and you’re unsure of what to make for dinner. Let’s hope you made some pot roast the night before and didn’t eat it all. If you have some left over, try this tasty mash-up of flavors.

The kids won’t know you took the same food from last night because it’s presented a whole different way.

They might even like it again, too!

Traveling can be annoying, especially if the guy in front of you in the security line is a tattooed, pierced dude wearing 18-hole combat boots and trying to export a large amount of reptiles in his oversized “carry-on suitcase.”

Pat Sherwood knows to avoid that guy in the airport. Sherwood works Level 1 Certificate Courses all over the world and spends a lot of time on the road, and in this installment of… Continue Reading