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Losing control is the road to adaptation, Rob Orlando says.

In this video, the Hybrid Athletics owner has a Q&A with a group of nine Israeli CrossFitters who visited his box late last year. Among them is Moshiko “Mo” Sameach, known as an athlete with near-perfect form on every rep.

“If it’s flawless, it’s not fast enough,” Orlando tells him. “If the question is, ‘How do I get from a five-minute Fran to a three-minute… Continue Reading

CrossFit correspondent Emily Turner takes us on a tour of CrossFit Southside in Jacksonville, Fla.

The box is owned by Justin Bergh, general manager of the CrossFit Games. CrossFit Southside opened in 2008 in a 5,300-square-foot space it still calls home today. However, it recently made use of a room that was once a lab with drop ceilings and carpeted-and-tiled floors.

“We built this in order to be just like a skills… Continue Reading

Grilled pineapple: it can be a dessert, a garnish for grilled meat, used for sauces or served up as a breakfast side.

But pineapple isn’t the only fruit you can kiss with a flame.

“Stone fruits work really well, so anything with a pit,” says cooking guru Michele Vieux, who adds that she’s grilled plums, peaches, nectarines, peaches and even pears, bananas, and watermelon.

“Get creative with it.”

The first step is to use a… Continue Reading

At Penn State University’s Department of Kinesiology, undergraduate students have the opportunity to do an internship many working adults dream of: at a CrossFit box.

According to Bryan St. Andrews, owner of CrossFit Nittany, students are learning principles of training but have no practical experience.

“They come in and I’m like, ‘All right, perform the power clean.’ And they don’t even know what piece of equipment to pick up,” he says.

The… Continue Reading

Front Range CrossFit focuses on getting its athletes to compete. Head coach Skip Miller says it’s key to greatness. Andréa Maria Cecil reports.

Skip Miller believes in competition.

At the South West Regional, held May 4-6 in Castle Rock, Colo., his affiliate dominated the individual women’s category. All three podium finishers—Colleen Maher, Jasmine Dever and Becky Conzelman—were from Front Range CrossFit, and one of two FRCF teams finished second in… Continue Reading

Candy Rice had never been an athlete. Then she discovered CrossFit, and everything changed.

A few years ago I was a typical mom, running kids here and there. Taking care of myself was last on the long list of things to do. I had always been thin and never really worried about my weight or what I ate. I would grab food on the go and never really read… Continue Reading

How much does sleep affect your athletic performance? Martin Rawls-Meehan explains the science behind getting enough rest.

How much do you think about how well you sleep? How important do you think sleep is to your CrossFit performance? What about your general health?

If you’re like most, you probably don’t think much about how well you sleep. All know they feel better when they sleep more, so… Continue Reading

Now that you’ve done your time with band-assisted muscle-up prep in Part 1, Carl Paoli takes you to the next step.

In Part 2, the gymnastics and movement specialist jumps on the rings and swings. He does so with a pseudo-false grip: the thumb over the index finger. His hands turn out when his feet are behind him.

“If I have that and I can swing and the rings are still still and not… Continue Reading

Amelia Penner started CrossFit as a weight-loss program. She shed 80 lb. and found herself as a Regional judge for the third year, along with her husband, Kerry.

Once CrossFit Kids started at their affiliate, the couple’s two daughters joined the workouts.

“I like being to be able to lift things and do things without having to say, ‘Mom, can you pick this up for me?’” daughter Laura Penner says.

The child often finds herself trying… Continue Reading

Active shoulders, weight over the base of the feet and, yes, the hook grip.

In this snippet from an Olympic Weightlifting Trainer Course, Mike Burgener first talks about keeping the shoulders externally rotated to keep the bar in a strong position overhead.

“If that bar’s up here over your head and you’re shrugging your shoulders … where does the bar go? It goes forward automatically because it becomes an internal rotation,” he says.

The next point… Continue Reading

At Westside Barbell, Shane Sweatt lives by the maximal-effort method.

It’s a conjugate system, “which is exactly what you guys do,” he says in this CrossFit Powerlifting Trainer Course.

The rotation of exercises not only allows for variety but can also be a useful coaching tool, says Sweatt, who is accompanied by elite powerlifter Laura Phelps-Sweatt.

“A great thing about conjugate is if I have a client come in and… Continue Reading

Chris Spealler continues his preparation: he’s going to the Reebok CrossFit Games to win. Andréa Maria Cecil reports.

There’s one reason Chris Spealler is going to this year’s CrossFit Games.

“Honestly, I’m going to win,” he said. “I’m not going to have fun.”

After managing a third-place finish at the South West Regional with a performance nothing short of remarkable, the iconic CrossFitter is forging ahead in his preparation for his sixth consecutive Games on July 13-15 in Carson… Continue Reading

The individual PDF articles published in May 2012 are collected here in a single download.

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

The articles included here are:

Tag, You’re Out—and Back In! - Patenaude
To Be SEALFIT: A Benchmark Learning Curve - Cohen
It’s Mom’s Turn - Olson
Rebuilding Hackleburg - Cecil
Shabazz Muhammad: Top Basketball Prospect, CrossFitter - Edelman
Cauli-Crust - Brown/Dazet
CrossFit Kids Community Series - Various
The Sport of Fitness: Canada West - Warkentin
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As a competitive shooter, Cory Magers wanted to get faster. But at more than 400 lb., that was difficult.

At his U.S. Practical Shooting Association club, he happened to run into someone who could help.

“One of the people in the club—Dave Castro—started shooting with us, and I couldn’t believe how fast he was,” Magers says of the CrossFit Director of Training. Magers started at Oceanside CrossFit upon Castro’s recommendation.

… Continue Reading

On Episode 226 of CrossFit Radio, host Justin Judkins interviewed Zach Smith, co-owner of CrossFit Intensify. Justin also interviewed North Central Regional winner Elisabeth Akinwale. This episode was webcast live at 6 p.m. PDT on Wednesday, May 30, 2012.

The WOW (Workout of the Week) is from CrossFit Jenks in Jenks, Okla.

Complete as many rounds as possible in 15 minutes of:

25 med-ball cleans into a wall-ball shot (20-lb… Continue Reading

E.M. Burton and David “Chef” Wallach go over the finer points of a post-workout or meal-replacement shake.

CrossFit teaches a way of eating that considers both macronutrient balance and food quality. As most athletes know, by weighing and measuring intake and recording it using various metrics, you can tweak your diet to check and improve its effect on your performance.

I have been blending up a version of this smoothie nearly… Continue Reading

One Thursday night, Penn State graduate student James Bondi was watching TNT basketball. Former NBA stars Kenny Smith and Charles Barkley were arguing over Insanity vs. CrossFit workouts.

“So they were just going back and forth about how one was better than the other,” Bondi recalls. “I guess Charles Barkley is the reason why I started, in a weird way.”

And so Bondi’s journey began at CrossFit Nittany in State College, Pa.

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Consider this your muscle-up primer.

In Part 1, gymnastics and movement specialist Carl Paoli shows us the band-assisted muscle-up prep he uses for every athlete.

“I need to be able to bow back and forth as a … pretty strong shape that can kind of just be manipulated, molded,” he begins.

Paoli breaks down the progression into four steps:

1. Hip extension and flexion.
2. From hip extension to a fast sit-up.
3. From the sit-up… Continue Reading

Clever chef Michele Vieux has figured out a way to nearly Paleo-ize The Olive Garden’s zuppa Toscana.

“We’re going to take out the potatoes. We’re going to use something else instead. But, otherwise, it’s just a bunch of vegetables,” she explains.

The CrossFit Invictus coach begins with bite-sized pieces of Italian chicken sausage in a pot with bacon grease. While it browns, she makes additional sausage with ground beef… Continue Reading

A chance viewing of the CrossFit Games on ESPN2 inspired Kevin Joyce to drastically change his health and his life. Hilary Achauer reports.

Kevin Joyce was feeling terrible. He had struggled his entire life to do something most of us take for granted—breathe.

Doctors could never figure out exactly what was wrong. They told him he had exercise-induced asthma, but he always felt it was something worse. In high school, Joyce… Continue Reading