Ditch the Crutches

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What’s your crutch? You know, thing you have to have just right to start (or during) your WOD. I’ll list a few below and you can see if any of these are yours. Music That’s right, 5:15, called you out (along with a lot of others). If the music isn’t right, I hear about it. […]

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If

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If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the Will which says to them: “Hold on!” -Excerpt from the poem, If, by Rudyard Kipling   […]

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Belief

This is a topic I started ruminating (get your Webster’s kids) on recently and I’m sure you’ll never guess where it came up. If you answered- in a documentary about a 1980s skateboard team– then you’re correct! Sure the easy answer would be church or men’s bible study but that wouldn’t keep you on your […]

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CrossFit Adaptations Part 11- Accuracy

Well, kids, we made it! This is the final installment of our CrossFit Adaptations series. I hope you’ve gained some awareness about the 10 Tenants of Fitness we strive for in CrossFit training. All of us are going to have some that come naturally and others we need to work at to improve. Knowing where […]

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CrossFit Adaptations Part 10- Balance

  Balance is defined as the ability to control the placement of the body’s center of gravity in relation to it’s support base. Many of us have no problem standing upright on two feet. Varying degrees of deviation from this, though, can be challenging. Bodyweight movements like running, air squats and pistols definitely require proficiency […]

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