Hello all, “I want to have fun but, who has fun losing… nobody” – Rich Froning (2nd place 2010 CF Games) Discuss. Today’s Workout Buy-in: Build up to WOD weight in the Deadlift and Push Press 10 min time frame WOD: Crossfit.com – Deadlift Push Press AMRAP This is a short one gang, but intense… […]
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Kristan Clever and Team Rogue go to SealFit In a follow up to the recent SealFit Newsletter article that I posted last week, here are some more excerpts with good points by Mark Divine on the topic of “Staying in the Fight”. It’s important to always keep positive! As we discussed in our last edition,
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Team, The Sectional WODs are over… or will be over by Sunday of this week and those in the top 60 will be moving on. The video below discusses the Games and the format going forward. How closely do you feel the Sectionals have captured the “unkown and unknowable” component of fitness? Have they been
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My attention was brought recently to a newsletter article by Mark Divine from SealFit. SealFit is an Integral Training program, popular with CrossFit Athletes, Special Ops, and professionals interested in Elite Fitness. SealFit clients include Professionals, CrossFit and serious athletes, special operations candidates and others who seek serious mental toughness training and wish to learn
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2010 Canada Regional champ Dan Rogers thinks that CrossFit is about more than the competition. I recently came across this article by Emily Beers on the Games site. As I looked over her interview with Canadian CrossFit Games hopeful Dan Rogers, I was pleased to find that many of his attitudes about CrossFit happen to
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I’m sure you’ve heard us all make friendly teasing reference to the “weaknesses” we see in each other here at The Zone. One of the most infamous teasing topics just so happens to be Coach Cam’s ability to summon up the tears at the drop of a hat! While we rib him on letting his
One day, I was inspired to break down exactly what the word “CrossFit” MEANS to me. I have left it written here in my random, stream-of-consciousness format, which you can hopefully follow. Here’s what I came up with: C Change – the metamorphosis into someone new physically and mentally, lifestyle changes. Character – the workouts
CrossFit is some serious business, man. ….Or at least we CrossFitters think so. Yet some portions of the fitness population seem to have other ideas about what we do in our CrossFit boxes! Here is a little spoof video I found floating around out there that appears to be designed to poke fun at our
How exactly do you define inspiration? The Online Dictionary defines it as: arousal of the mind to special unusual activity or creativity a product of your creative thinking and work a sudden intuition as part of solving a problem arousing to a particular emotion or action I think we can all agree that it can
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Our numbers are growing, which is really exciting! To accommodate this, we’re doing our best to keep things in their place and make the most out of our available gym space. BUT, lately we’ve noticed a downturn in people tidying their things, caring for the equipment, and cleaning up after themselves. From water bottles and
