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Dear non-CrossFitting friends: Please be patient with us. It’s just that we’re really stoked.
Guest author Matthew Webb apologies for the collective barrage that is CrossFit-hysteria. Dear non-CrossFitting friends: please be patient with us. It’s just that we’re really stoked. Disclaimer: this post is going to sound like...
Pre- Competition Tapering
A pre- competition taper acts to allow the recovery of central (nervous system) and peripheral (muscular) fatigue. We examine the literature to explore the fine balance between over-tapering (and thus a drop in performance) and under-tapering (leading to over...
Post Workout Nutrition – Literature Review
I don't intend to raise any of my own thoughts or opinions in this post, but rather, to review a small sample of a large body of research into post exercise nutrition with the aim of increasing future performance. For those with access to journal articles (either...
Different Movement, Same Stimulus
In CrossFit, there's generally a limit to the number of movements we see in competition. This is for good reason. There are certain movements that are just better at measuring/testing fitness than others. Prior to a competition, most semi-experienced athletes and...
‘Functional Exercise’, Where to Draw the Line?
1) 'Functional Movements': Movements that haven't been invented. Movements that we would have seen people doing 10,000 years ago. Running, climbing, throwing, dragging, picking up, swimming, shouldering, digging, swinging etc. The exercise equivalent of 'Paleo...
If They Can Do It, You Can Do It!
The four minute mile is a sporting cliche. It acts as the definitive example of the cascade affect of an individual reaching a benchmark. Roger Bannister cracked the four minutes in 1954. The achievement of this benchmark opened the floodgates. It spawned a global...