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Modern running shoes feature heels packed with cushioning technology—but Dr. Lon Kilgore wonders if they prevent the foot from functioning as it was designed.

The basic structure of the human foot has not changed significantly for some four to five million years. We have supporting arches that carry the weight of the entire body and virtually any load placed upon it. The many joints comprising the arches are quite well endowed with a… Continue Reading

The individual PDF articles published in January 2010 are collected here in a single download.

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

The articles included here are:

Thiel - How to Succeed as a CrossFit Affiliate
Ray - The Truth About Rhabdo
Amundson - 2851 Research Park Dr., Santa Cruz, Calif.
Berger - Judgement as a Virtue
Starr - Learning How to Do Full Snatches
Christie - Tuning the CrossFit Athlete—Part 1
Kilgore - Adaptation for… Continue Reading

Intense CrossFit workouts improve your fitness—but how? Dr. Lon Kilgore explains how doing Grace can cause adaptive changes at the cellular level and result in improved performance.

Adaptation is not a new concept. We have known for hundreds of years that the human body, when presented with a sub-lethal physical, psychological or chemical stress, can adapt to the source of stress, allowing the body to tolerate incrementally larger similar stresses.

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The individual PDF articles published in November 2009 are collected here in a single download.

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

The articles included here are:

Andrews, Warkentin - CrossFit Works
Warkentin - A Ringing Success
Swift - Performance Psychology: Taming the Inner Voice
Morrison - CrossFit Europe
Starr - Learning How to Do Full Cleans
Soubbotine - The Russian’s Gymnastics Warm-Up
Morrison - CrossFit Europe, Part 2
Kilgore - Safety: For Athletes and… Continue Reading

The benefits of exercise outweigh the risks, but planning ahead can ensure you’re protected when accidents do happen. Dr. Lon Kilgore suggests some ways to insulate yourself.

The mass consensus is that exercise is a healthy undertaking. The general population, including lawmakers and courts, has a preconceived notion that all exercise and sport is healthy, and that if injury occurs, someone has done something wrong. This, as a… Continue Reading

The individual PDF articles published in September 2009 are collected here in a single download.

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

The articles included here are:

Warkentin - Challenging the Definitions of Fitness
Starr - More Pop at the Top
Hall - Smart Shopping for Your Home Gym
Warkentin - Centers of Excellence: Part 1
Amundson - The Chink in My Armor
Hoff - The Panther Recon Downrange Gym
Kilgore… Continue Reading

If movement is the product of unbalanced forces across a joint, what does that mean for traditional agonist-antagonist strength ratios? Dr. Lon Kilgore believes training to conform to hypothetical ratios is impractical and will not result in greater functional fitness.

In most instances during exercise we want to create an unbalanced force across a joint or joints in order to create movement. But when we consider joint integrity… Continue Reading

Here are the individual PDF articles published in June 2009, collected together in a single download.

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

The articles included here are:

Kilgore - Built to Move
Weiss - Scaling: How Less Can Be More
Morse - Less Is More for Champion Runner
Budding - You Be The Trainer - #1
Starr - Mastering the Jerk
Warkentin - Is “Punishment” a Dirty Word?
Eich - Forty Years in the Fitness… Continue Reading

Dr. Lon Kilgore explains the basic anatomy and physiology of how the body is built to move.

One of the reasons I do what I do is simply because I wanted to know how to make myself a better athlete. From the age of 11, I read anatomy and biology books. I read them not for fun but to improve my competition fitness in wrestling and weightlifting. Even in school I took elective classes I thought would help… Continue Reading

Coach Glassman presented CrossFit to the American Society of Exercise Physiologists (ASEP). In preparation for that event, Lon Kilgore, PhD wrote:

On April 3rd, 2009 CrossFit will be introduced to the academic exercise physiology community at the American Society of Exercise Physiologists national conference to be held on the campus of Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls, Texas.

The intellectual foundations and practical applications of CrossFit will be… Continue Reading

This is the 6th episode of the Weekend Edition of CrossFit Radio, which aired at 6pm PDT on Saturday, April 18th, 2009.

00:00 - 32:15 Weekend Edition Host Dave Young reveals the story behind the April 3rd CrossFit presentation to the annual conference of the American Society of Exercise Physiologists in Witchita Falls, TX by Greg Glassman, Brian Chontosh, and Mark Rippetoe, coordinated by Lon Kilgore. Kary Mullis presented on the nature of science… Continue Reading

As promised, here are the individual PDF articles published in January 2009, collected together in a single download.

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

The articles included here are:

Page 1 - Byers - Best of CrossFit 1
Page 6 - Starr - Pulling Exercises
Page 12 - Paproki - Broke-Back Comeback
Page 15 - Wallack - The 80-Year-Old Guinea Pig
Page 20 - Widman - A CrossFit Startup Guide 1
Page 27 - MacPhee - Triathlete… Continue Reading

Lon Kilgore, PhD writes about the basics of human anatomy and movement definitions (Movement 101).

Anatomy is an intimidating topic to lots of people, but it is an important area of study relevant to many professions, including teachers of exercise. Previously, we examined how the recognition of body segment lengths that deviated from “normal” affected how a movement would look (Measure of a Man). It was our first step at… Continue Reading

Drawing on more than 30 years in the fitness industry, Mark Rippetoe writes that an “active hip” can help clean up problems associated with the squat. Dr. Stef Bradford and Dr. Lon Kilgore, Rippetoe’s long-time collaborators, also contributed to this article.

When we squat, the standard range of motion criterion for the exercise is “below parallel.” This is defined as the hip joint identified at… Continue Reading

Lon Kilgore has seen milk support substantial gains in hundreds of athletes. In Starting Strength, of which he is co-author, Lon and Rip write, “One of the best ways [to provide the calories required to promote strength] is to drink a gallon of milk a day, most especially if weight-gain is a primary concern.”

Yet, there are a lot of concerns about the safety of drinking milk, especially for adults. Most of these concerns, Lon… Continue Reading

In this special episode of CrossFit Radio, Coach Glassman, Mark Rippetoe, Lon Kilgore, Robb Wolf, and Andy Stumpf come to the table with facts and science to combat the attack waged against CrossFit, its participants and its co-creator Greg Glassman by the NSCA’s Mike Boyle and Gray Cook in their podcast.

Here are a few of the topics discussed:

• Why bother?
• Uncle Rhabdo and the so-called “cavalier attitude” of CrossFit toward injury
• The “cult-like” allegiance to Coach Glassman
• The accusation… Continue Reading

Simple questions are sometimes the most profound. And answers to simple questions about exercise sometimes are the hardest to find. Rather, they are often intuitive to skilled coaches or contained in knowledge that is that is passed on in the lore of the gym rather than recorded in books or formal training programs. Expert coaches, teachers, clinicians, and professors sometimes take it for granted that what we think is basic, simple… Continue Reading

Have you ever watched an infomercial or a shop-at-home network exercise equipment segment? If you have you will know that the formula is a slick spokesperson or salesperson, an exercise expert with lots of letters after their name, and an attractive and fit-looking model to demonstrate the equipment and make the pitch: "This equipment is so easy to use and so effective that you will be looking like Buffy and Biff here in just a… Continue Reading

A great American and patriot once said, "There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don't know we don't know."

As I entered CrossFit San Diego to attend a CrossFit Basic Barbell Certification seminar, I knew what I knew, I knew… Continue Reading