Pursue What is Meaningful, Not What is Expedient

Pursue What is Meaningful, Not What is Expedient

      A great book I have recently read is 12 Rules Of Life by Jordan Peterson, which offers some insightful views on life.  In this book, Dr. Peterson applies the rules of the past and applies them to present day.  Much of what is talked

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The Metabolic Pathways; Are you Missing the Point?

The Metabolic Pathways; Are you Missing the Point?

Before CrossFit was even a thing, Greg Glassman was writing blog articles describing his theories on fitness.   In his original article titled What is Fitness, Glassman describes four fitness models.  They are:  The 10 General Fitness Skills The Hopper The Sickness, Wellness, Fitness Continuum The Metabolic

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Simple Chicken Dinner Recipe

Simple Chicken Dinner Recipe

Hope everyone’s had a great week. While we’re all still digesting the quantity/quality quandary from the nutrinformational segment from last week, let’s see what we can cook up for a balanced meal for this weekend (also a relatively easy meal-prep dish): “Simple Chicken Dinner”: Protein: Palm(of your

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Kids Need to Get Out and Play

     Well it’s summertime again and just like in previous years, parents are racing around town trying to get from one child’s practice to the next.  This is a great thing, although maybe not for a parent’s sanity.  As we enter this summer my warning to

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Training against the Whiteboard

I can’t believe it has taken me this long to write a blog on this topic: the mentality of many CrossFit athletes.  I am not attacking the sport aspect of CrossFit, this is my sport after all.  Too often, however, we see athletes that will sacrifice everything

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More Volume Doesn’t Always Mean Better Results

More Volume Doesn't Always Mean Better Results

One of the best books I have ever read, when it comes to strength training, has been “Supertraining” from Mel Siff.   One of the quotes attributed to Dr. Siff  that really stuck out to me is, “You don’t train minimally, you don’t train maximally, you train

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