I was 7 years old when I first learned how to ride a skateboard. My parents bought me a Santa Cruz Tony Hawk Eagle board and I was so excited. I was going to be just like Christian Slater in Gleaming the Cube. I stepped on the board for the first time, gave it one [...]
Our first CFSB Town Hall Meeting was a success on Saturday. Forrest opened the floor for any and all questions, concerns and suggestions to make our gym a better place to work out. We had some great feedback. See the outlined minutes below: First Aid: We will be creating a designated First Aid area with [...]
My three-part ‘How much?’ series on CHO, Pro and Fat will continue next week. Don’t forget that this week is the last week to turn in any food logs, measurements, and get ‘after’ pics taken for the Paleo Challenge. Look out for the Paleo Challenge WODs and make them up this week if you can’t [...]
Back in the early days of CFSB, there was one foam roller and nobody used it. I began to develop a little bit of knee pain and constantly had muscle soreness. After doing some research, I found that foam rolling was supposed to help alleviate these problems. I eagerly showed up to the gym to [...]
People always joke that CrossFit is a cult. Depending on your definition of what a cult is, this may or may not be true. According to the Webster dictionary the definition is: 1 : formal religious veneration : worship 2 : a system of religious beliefs and ritual; also : its body of adherents 3 [...]
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 [...]
“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 [...]
Ask people what they like to do and you will generally hear that they like to hang out with friends, watch movies, travel and try new things. Who really doesn’t like to hang out with their friends (except for me on Sundays when I lock myself in my house)? Movies and travel are pretty much [...]
Dear Fran, I have to admit, it was not pleasant seeing you today. The last time I saw you was about six months ago and I thought we had a pretty good experience. To be quite frank, I don’t think things are going to work out between us, but first let me explain why.
