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Why CrossFit Women Are Stronger Than You

Charles Staley — Sat, 16 Jul 2022 12:00:00 +0000

CrossFit Women Saved Female Fitness Has anything advanced female fitness more than CrossFit? Nope. If you've always encouraged females to lift weights, thank CrossFit women for changing the landscape. Today, more women are lifting, getting strong, and looking better because of the popularity of CrossFit training. Bodybuilding couldn't pull it off, and even the popularity

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Don't Start CrossFit Until You Read This

Calvin Huynh — Wed, 24 Nov 2021 13:00:12 +0000

What to Know Before You Start CrossFit Most lifters who don't do CrossFit will badmouth it without ever trying it. But on the flip side, many CrossFitters provoke this behavior by acting like CrossFit is God's gift to fitness. They're completely blinded by their obsession. So don't start CrossFit before you know the whole, unbiased

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Tip: Are Overhead Kettlebell Swings Worth It?

Christian Thibaudeau — Sat, 06 Apr 2019 17:15:00 +0000

Even if they've never given you shoulder problems, they're not the best unless you have to use them in a competitive setting. CrossFit uses overhead swings so that each rep can be counted. But if you're not a competitor who needs to use the overhead version, your posterior chain will get more out of the

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6 Exercises Trainers Hate That Aren't Bad

Nick Tumminello — Wed, 27 Mar 2019 12:00:00 +0000

Bicep curls while standing on a BOSU is a great example of an exercise trainers hate. And rightfully so, because people do it with the false belief that any resistance training exercise is universally made better by standing on an unstable surface. But not all exercises trainers hate really deserve it. Here's a list of

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Tip: Box Jumps For Conditioning

Christian Thibaudeau — Tue, 12 Mar 2019 11:00:00 +0000

Should You Do Box Jumps for Conditioning? I have mixed feelings about this. The first 10 years of my career was spent training pro and high-level amateur athletes, so the strength coach in me hates it when an exercise is used for a different purpose than what it's designed to do. High-rep Olympic lifts and

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Tip: A Startling Benefit of Exercise

TC Luoma — Sat, 17 Nov 2018 18:00:00 +0000

I've always been puzzled and annoyed at those silly bastards who practice the horrible exercise hybrid I call "Crosshitty." What these "Crosshitters" do is sort of like CrossFit, but it doesn't employ Olympic lifts or squats or deadlifts or any attempt at fulfilling the ten recognized "fitness domains." And it's sort of like HIIT, but

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Tip: The Missing CrossFit Movement

Arianna Hoffman — Sat, 22 Sep 2018 17:00:00 +0000

Photo Credit: Zach Hodge, CrossFit Kingsboro There are a lot of good things about CrossFit: A wide array of athlete skill acquisition, infinite scalability, development of all three energy systems, a motivating atmosphere, and a supportive community. But it does have its shortcomings. Like any other fitness methodology, there are holes in its application. The

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It's Time to Segregate Our Gyms

TC Luoma — Thu, 26 Jul 2018 12:00:00 +0000

It happened exactly two months after having my left knee replaced. The surgery was the arthritic conclusion to a football injury I suffered in high school, and for the first time since having my knee cut open like a melon and replaced with a new, metal and plastic melon, I was feeling pretty frisky. I

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Tip: How To Do a Bar Muscle-Up

TJ Kuster — Fri, 25 May 2018 11:00:00 +0000

Muscle (Yourself) Up The bar muscle-up is a great display of relative upper body strength. This complex movement combines two movement patterns into one exercise: You explosively pull yourself up and over the bar (vertical pull pattern), then... Push yourself on top of the bar (horizontal press pattern). With and Without the Kip Take a

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Tip: Box Squatting – An Overview

Jason Brown — Mon, 07 May 2018 17:15:00 +0000

The popularization of the box squat is largely due to Westside Barbell and Louie Simmons, and doing them with a wide stance has definitely been a game-changer for every athlete I've used them with. There are a couple of reasons they're so great. For one, the wide-stance box squat breaks up the phases of the

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