Wednesday, December 3, 2014
Four General Warm-Ups to Add Routine and Time to Class
With a background in high-level team sports, I was always torn when I transitioned to CrossFit. Half of me ... READ MORE »
Destroy Pain and Physical Limitation With Posture Alignment Therapy
Posture Alignment Therapy is a holistic exercise technique that uses gravity and a person’s own body weight to improve alignment and balance, naturally eliminating the underlying causes of pain and physical limitation.
RELATED: How to Unlock Your Athletic Potential Through Good Posture
2014 CrossFit Athlete Holiday Shopping Guide
This is not your average CrossFit holiday wish list, folks. Box owners, this is your client’s wish list. Take a close look at some of these tools for getting more fit and pick them up for your clients now!
CrossFitters, if your gym does not have all of these items, print this page and get it to your box owner stat. Then ask him or her the following: “Why are you trying to hold back my fitness gains?”
"Swim Speed Strokes for Swimmers and Triathletes" (Book Review)
Swimming is one of the more difficult sports to learn as an adult. The two biggest disadvantages for most are:
How to Make Social Events a Strength This Holiday Season
Thanksgiving kicks off a six-week period of gluttony for a lot of us. Being surrounded by delicious homemade baked goods at holiday parties can spell trouble to the new diet or exercise plan we’ve just undertaken.
Tuesday, December 2, 2014
Coach, Counselor or Both?
CrossFit trainers find they’re building athletes and relationships at the same time.
It was a rare warm November evening in Fort Wayne, Indiana, when Maureen Randall quit the workout.
Beats were dropping from the speakers at CrossFit Praus, but for once, the self-described class jokester wasn’t dancing. The date marked 22 years since the night she was raped. She had been just 14 years old. Usually, she spent the anniversary locked indoors. Tonight, she tried to do an overhead squat, but the bar crashed to the floor.
“I broke,” Randall recalled. After the clock had gone dark, Randall still sat, her head buried in her hands. Affiliate owner Amanda Burge had a choice: Walk away or dive in. She dove.
The conversation was the beginning of a mentorship between coach and athlete that extends beyond class to texts, phone calls and post-workout discussions about how Randall can use CrossFit to help overcome her past.
“Anytime I need her, she’s there—no questions asked,” Randall said. “A lot of people coach and then they leave. With Amanda, that’s not how it is.”
As athletes struggle with everything from poor mobility to poor self-image, coaches are faced daily with the challenge of walking the line between coach and counselor. For Burge, it’s a no-brainer.
“We’re not just puppet masters who program hellacious WODs,” she said. “We’re people, and we want them to know we’re here for them. They trust us with their lives during a WOD, so why would they not trust us with their lives outside of CrossFit?”
2014 Yoga Lovers Holiday Shopping Guide
If you have a yoga lover in your life, I can guarantee he or she would be thrilled to find some yoga-inspired gifts under the tree this year. I am a yoga practitioner and also a yoga teacher-in-training, so I've had my eye on a few items myself.
Here are ten gift ideas that stand out as perfect for any yoga teacher or enthusiast:
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