Level 1 Seminar Staff

On Episode 268 of CrossFit Radio, host Justin Judkins interviewed CrossFit Mitchelton owner Lily Cosgrove and Josh Everett. This episode was webcast live at 6 p.m. PDT on Wednesday, March 20, 2013.

3:12 Australian Lily Cosgrove is a former lawyer who is now a member of CrossFit’s Level 1 Seminar Staff and co-owner, with her husband, of CrossFit Mitchelton. She talked about how the CrossFit Games Open is going Down… Continue Reading

Black Cobra, Fu Manchu, Orchid—just a few of the records in Adrian Bozman’s collection. Acid Witch, though, is his favorite.

“Nobody likes them except me and, like, a couple of my friends,” he says, laughing.

Bozman adds: “I like music, and I like music that people make because it tries to evoke a particular feeling or a mood or mark an event in their life.”

Formerly of Vancouver Island, B.C., the colorful “Boz” is a… Continue Reading

She was once known as the woman who hit her finger with a sledgehammer at the 2009 CrossFit Games in Aromas, Calif. Today, Nicole Gordon might be more well known for being a member of CrossFit’s Level 1 Seminar Staff.

“I don’t know that everybody wakes up every day and has a job that they’re excited to go to,” Gordon says.

She’s also a coach at CrossFit Hampton Roads.

“My favorite parts are when somebody comes… Continue Reading

Originally from Ecuador, Maggie Dabe came to the U.S. to go to school and learn English. She did both and then became a U.S. citizen.

But despite her associate’s degree in international business, Dabe wanted to do more “just to make me feel like I was doing something, (like) I was making a difference and helping other people.”

So she became a firefighter. At her firehouse, she met her future business partner and fiancé, Jeff… Continue Reading

On Episode 261 of CrossFit Radio, host Justin Judkins interviewed CrossFit Generation owner Barry Weidner, as well as Chase Ingraham of CrossFit’s Level One Seminar Staff. This episode was webcast live at 6 p.m. PDT on Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2013.

1:03 Justin read an email from Morgan B. about how his members generously helped a local middle-school wrestling team gear up for the season.

5:36 This week’s Words of Wisdom… Continue Reading

When CrossFit Founder and CEO Greg Glassman arrived in Washington in September 2003 for a one-day seminar that ended with Helen, Kurtis Bowler immediately knew he had not been doing CrossFit at all in the preceding months.

“Prior to that, I thought I was doing CrossFit,” Bowler says. “But it turned out all I was doing was not resting as much between weightlifting exercises.”

At 19:35, he finished “dead last” in Helen.

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Karl Steadman took the CrossFit Level 1 Trainer Course about eight years ago at CrossFit Brand X in Ramona, Calif.

“We emailed Jeff Martin and said, ‘We’re coming out. Can you recommend any places to stay? He’s like, ‘Holy shit, you’re comin’ all the way from the U.K.? You’re staying with us,’” Steadman recounts of the CrossFit Brand X co-owner. “It was something that never stopped—this idea of paying it forward.”

The act was quintessential CrossFit… Continue Reading

Joe Alexander is a flowmaster for CrossFit Level 1 Trainer Courses, and he loves teaching.

“The most passionate thing about CrossFit for me is it allows me to compress many different interests I have into one entity,” says Alexander, whose academic background is in psychology and neuroscience. He’s also coach to 2012 Reebok CrossFit Games second-place finisher Matt Chan.

“This allows me to do something that I believe is… Continue Reading