In CrossFit, Sports Applications, Videos
January 18, 2012
Maree Bowden started playing netball when she was 5 years old.
After 12 years in New Zealand’s national women’s game, she found her training stale. Enter Reebok CrossFit Canterbury, which recently opened in Canterbury, New Zealand.
“I just wanted to try something different,” Bowden explains. “I came along and fell in love with the concept.”
A different workout each day is what she loves, she says.
“And I love competing against the boys,” Bowden says with a big laugh… Continue Reading
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In Athletes, HD Videos, Sports Applications
January 08, 2012
Ben and Owen Franks are professional rugby players for the New Zealand All Blacks, winners of the 2011 Rugby World Cup.
In Part 2, the brothers are training on the beach, and it looks a little like the harsh tests of SEALFIT’s Kokoro Camp. With two competitive, powerful beasts going head-to-head at the highest level of their nation’s sport, you can expect the occasional punch-up, but father Ken Franks says his sons… Continue Reading
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In Athletes, HD Videos, Sports Applications
January 01, 2012
Ben and Owen Franks are professional rugby players for the New Zealand All Blacks, winners of the 2011 Rugby World Cup. Take a peek into their lives and see how they balance training, family and nutrition.
In addition to their sports-specific training, both brothers are dedicated CrossFitters and run their own affiliate: Reebok CrossFit Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand. For them, both rugby and CrossFitting are a… Continue Reading
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In Sports Applications, Videos
December 25, 2011
Gary McLean, owner of CrossFit 365 in South Wales, shares how he started his U.K. affiliate and how the Ospreys Rugby team has embraced CrossFit and shares its facility with the affiliate.
Mark Bennett, the head strength-and-conditioning coach for the Ospreys, and his assistant, Kevin Morgan, discuss how beneficial CrossFit has been for their athletes.
“It’s not just the physical ability,” Bennett says. “It gives us that mental edge, hopefully.”
Bennett… Continue Reading
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In CrossFit, Sports Applications
December 12, 2011
A skydiving mishap proves to Meg Harris that her CrossFit training has prepared her for the unknown and unknowable.
In July 2009, I was at about 3,500 feet when the hopper presented me with the challenge: “Avoid a potentially devastating and body-mangling skydiving accident.”
I suppose a better word for “accident” might be “incident,” mainly due to the fact that the latter implies… Continue Reading
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In HD Videos, Sports Applications
December 05, 2011
Get to know Travis Bagent from his home in Shepherdstown, W.Va., to the Nemiroff World Cup table. Proclaimed the greatest left-handed arm wrestler of all time, Bagent was also the announcer at the 2011 Reebok CrossFit Games and is a devoted father and coach.
Bagent won the 2005 Nemiroff World Cup wrestling right-handed but had never been back until this year. Starting in 2006, he began coaching youth football for his son, and the season… Continue Reading
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In CrossFit, Sports Applications, Videos
December 03, 2011
“I was pretty decrepit when I started,” Dan MacDougald says. “I was about to have doctors recommend spinal fusion in the low back, couldn’t stand for more than a few hours at a time, sit for more than a few hours at a time. I had bulging disks that were pinching on nerve roots.”
Dan MacDougald is the owner of CrossFit Atlanta. He shares his story of recovery through CrossFit and how a love of coaching has shaped his career… Continue Reading
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In HD Videos, Sports Applications
November 27, 2011
Join Dave Re, grand master in the United States Practical Shooting Association (USPSA); fellow grand master Jake Di Vita and CrossFit Director of Training Dave Castro as they continue their competition-shooting excursion, traveling from Pala Range to Norco Running Gun in California.
Re says Stage 1 is like a Nationals stage with moves between challenging targets and “poppers.” The group continues through the stages… Continue Reading
