A lot of you have expressed interest in getting your CrossFit level 1 certification and starting the path to becoming a coach. The level 1 takes you through some of the basic CrossFit movements and shows you different methods to teach them. The instructors teach you some of the philosophies of CrossFit and how to [...]
This Memorial Day we will only have two classes from 10AM-11AM and 11AM-Noon. We will be doing the Lumberjack 20 to honor our fallen soldiers. We will also have more t-shirts early next week with the same design as our red shirts, but this time they will be printed on the American Apparel tri-blend black [...]
What an incredible showing by our affiliate team at the Southwest Regionals. Our teammates represented CFSB with their best foot forward. They started Saturday with a tough dumbbell thruster/ring dip/run WOD. Such incredible effort and hard work! The 2nd WOD came Saturday afternoon with a long run/dumbbell snatch/double under/pullup combo. I think our athletes found [...]
When I think of how far we’ve come with developing our On-Ramp program, I picture myself sitting in a rocking chair on a porch drinking a PBR and widdling wood saying: “Hell, back in my day we didn’t used to have no fancy On-Ramp class or no free two weeks. We used to just jump [...]
CrossFit is based on principles that include the use of goals to improve upon the ten foundations: cardiovascular and respiratory endurance, stamina, strength, flexibility, power, speed, coordination, agility, balance, and accuracy. All of which lead to better health and fitness. Headquarters has been working on improving the health of CrossFit through the betterment of the [...]
Competition for the affiliate cup team is warming up. We have completed our second CFSB qualifier WOD and the third will be today. The top six athletes (minimum of two males and two females) will be chosen to compete on behalf of CFSB at the regionals held at UC Irvine May 8 – 9. The [...]
Life can be a little rough at times. Since last March (over a year ago) with the recession the company I have worked for (Lighting Design Alliance) the past two years went onto a work sharing program, reducing all employees hours and pay by 20%. At first this was pretty cool, i was like hey, [...]
“You must have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.” -Stanislaw J. Lec CrossFit is hard. It’s not designed to be an easy 45 minute jog on the treadmill while you catch up on the latest fashion faux pas in US Weekly. Our workouts do not involve countless hours of staring at ourselves [...]
The squat is not mastered over night. We spend years sitting in chairs beginning before preschool age. Humans were not built to sit in chairs, no matter how ergonomic furniture claims to be. Sitting causes tighter and weaker hip flexors, hips and hamstrings. Residents of third world countries that cook, play games, socialize and even [...]
Remy Food I’ve always been a do-it-yourself kind of guy. I always felt like hiring someone to do your dirty work was like paying someone to take your manhood away. In my book those guys who didn’t know how to wax their own car or hook up a stereo were just not quite men yet. [...]
