CrossFit Attitude

I see this all the time:  The workout of the day has super heavy suggested Rx weight, or is particularly lengthy, or really intense and hard, or just purely complicated.  People see this and approach me at the beginning of class looking for advice, perhaps telling me about an injury they’re trying to protect and […]

Image courtesy of Primal Palette “The secret to getting ahead in this world is in first getting started.  So just make a decision..and be willing to see it through to the end.   Success will come…  If you’re hungry enough…that is.  How big is your appetite for success?  Do you want a bite or are you

Each and every day that we face is full of potential excuses. Excuses for why we’re late, excuses for why we’re tired, excuses for why we can’t seem to stick to our eating plan.  Even if you wake up with the best of intentions in a fabulous mood, often things will happen throughout the day

Original article re-posted from the CrossFit North Vancouver community. Quitters. We’ve all known some, maybe even been one yourself at some point in your life. That person who is always able to find the reason not to do something because it is too difficult, takes too much effort, is painful, or is something that they’re

Original article re-posted from Beastmodal Domains (with some language editing!) You Rx’d that WOD?  BEASTMODE!  … wait.  Should you have even done it as prescribed?  Back it up. CrossFit is intensity, and intensity is relative to our individual physical abilities.  I saw you work at a snail pace through the WOD, and you had no business doing push jerks

As many of you Zone athletes engage in the pursuit of ultimate fitness, we have observed that there is a tendency for people to want to train the elements that they are good at, or focus solely on the aspects of the programming that they enjoy the most and see the most obvious strength gains

In every CrossFit gym there are certain rules of etiquette that should go without saying.  Which is why I won’t bother repeating them for you again here, like I have done in past posts! Instead, here’s a humourous and overstated video that recounts some of the most important Rules of CrossFit: [yframe url=’http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHuJsw5OXFI&sns=fb’] If any

Need inspiration?  A little WOD motivation?  Perhaps a reminder about why YOU CrossFit?  Then you should watch this vid…. This little gem was aired at the 2011 CrossFit Games during the opening ceremonies, and is a fantastic overview of the driving attitude behind CrossFit. For those of you who were pumped up by the quotes

I find it interesting that one of my main focuses as a CrossFit Kids Coach is finding methods for teaching kids better ways to define who they are.  The thing is, I’ve noticed that this is something that most adults still need to learn, as well.  We often get caught up in thinking our self-worth

Hey gang, Found this quote on my computer the other day (sorry not sure of the source) and it really resonated with me as it did the first time I read it: “Most people don’t come to us looking for a breakthrough in the way they think. However, one of the common side effects of