In Affiliation, Athletes, Radio, Sports Applications
January 19, 2011
On Episode 155 of CrossFit Radio, host Justin Judkins interviewed CrossFit Asheville co-owner Shanna Duvall and former Major League Baseball player Logan Gelbrich. This episode was webcast live at 6 p.m. PDT on Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2010.
2:45 Shanna Duvall and her husband are two of the four owners of CrossFit Asheville in North Carolina. Shanna and her husband are also chiropractors, and while her main… Continue Reading
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In Affiliation, Kids, Sports Applications, Videos
January 06, 2011
“Just like adults, children love to be challenged every day physically and mentally. In my opinion, our program before CrossFit was not doing that,” says Jon Wilson, a PE teacher. Wilson founded Blue Flame CrossFit, a non-profit club affiliate at Pickens High School in South Carolina.
After Wilson discovered CrossFit, he was eager to bring it to his students.
“I saw the changes it made in myself and in my training, and I knew it… Continue Reading
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In Coaching, CrossFit Endurance, Sports Applications, Videos
December 23, 2010
Join CrossFit Endurance swimming coaches Brian Nabeta and Chris Michelmore at De Anza College in Cupertino, Calif., as they apply their endurance specialty to swimming.
In this video, Michelmore and Nabeta drill the streamlined body position. According to Nabeta, as swimmers, we want a hollow-body position “to lengthen our spine out so that we can be in a more fish-like state.” He says the goal is to become “more elongated, which will… Continue Reading
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In Coaching, CrossFit Endurance, Sports Applications, Videos
December 08, 2010
Join CrossFit Endurance swimming coaches Brian Nabeta and Chris Michelmore at De Anza College in Cupertino, Calif., as they fine-tune swimming mechanics with their athletes.
In this video, Michelmore and Nabeta drill the floating position to develop a balanced body position for swimming.
“The first thing to realize when you are in water, your spine naturally wants to stay in line,” Michelmore says.
Through dead-man’s-float drills, the participants find their… Continue Reading
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In LEO/Mil, Sports Applications, Videos
December 06, 2010
Join Dave Re, grand master in the United States Practical Shooting Association, as he teaches gun safety to fellow CrossFit Central members Travis Holley and Crystal Nelson at the Austin Rifle Club.
Re goes through the safety checklist at a shooting range, including eye protection, hearing protection and the four basic safety rules:
1. Act as if every gun is always loaded.
2. Don’t ever point it at anything you’re not… Continue Reading
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November 24, 2010
Does a sun salutation have anything to do with Cindy? Mike Warkentin talks to a few CrossFitters who see a link between asanas and Angie.
One smells of patchouli and incense, the other of sweat and vomit.
The delicate flutterings of a bamboo flute usually drift through a yoga studio, while most CrossFit boxes throb with punishing rhythms cranked out by tattooed satanists from Southern California. Yoga is about… Continue Reading
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In CrossFit Endurance, Sports Applications, Videos
November 23, 2010
Join CrossFit Endurance swimming coaches Brian Nabeta and Chris Michelmore at De Anza College in Cupertino, Calif., as they apply their endurance specialty to swimming.
“We can make these swimmers more efficient,” Brian Nabeta says.
In the lecture portion of their training, Nabeta coaches technique through the pull (or anchor) phase of swimming.
“Your leverage and your efficiency decreases when you start applying that straight arm… Continue Reading
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In Sports Applications, Videos
November 08, 2010
Swimming is as much about efficiency as it is about power output. More efficient swimmers are able to swim faster while using less strokes per lap. One way to calculate a swimmer’s efficiency is to find his or her swimming golf or “SWOLF” score. The SWOLF score combines a swimmer’s 25-yard swim time with the number of strokes he or she takes.
In this video, the CrossFit Endurance team takes a group of athletes… Continue Reading
