Month: July 2011

  • Burgener warm up into a Snatch

    Where else but CrossFit can you use the word Snatch and not get in trouble? It’s funny how many terms that are used in weightlifting that are traditionally seen as sexual or male-centric. I’m not even going to mention them here — we all know which ones I am talking about. What is it about…

  • Hydrate! Hydrate! Hydrate!

    Why You Might Be Dangerously Dehydrated When you skimp on fluids (check out the ideal amount here), it’s hard on your body, which makes sense because water is essential to just about every process in our body and, in fact, to the very existence of life on Earth. Life first emerged in the salty, primordial ocean;…

  • CrossFit – It Really Is A Way Of Life

  • Reebok & CrossFit

    CrossFit’s Relationship with Reebok Enhances Its Financial and Commercial Credibility And Reebok has gone so far as to embrace and incorporate the CrossFit training regime into their corporate philosophy as well as their day-to-day operations.  ”Reebok is really going full-bore, having opened up a CrossFit gym at Reebok HQ and hiring two elite CrossFit athletes as…

  • Hot, Hot, Hot

    Hot, Hot, Hot – did I mention it’s hot out there? I seriously only want to nap when it gets this hot — under a fan on high and the AC running. I lived in Arizona for many years and that’s one kind of heat. It’s hot for sure but low humidity. Here, in DC…

  • CrossFit will change you —

    Ways CrossFit will change you… Someone Facebook’d and asked why they should come work out here…I’m not one for a hard sell to anyone, either you want it, or you don’t. If you do, then get your ass here. If you don’t, well, that’s okay too, just let me know when you’re ready. Because this will…

  • Get the book: TWICE: How I Became a Cancer-Slaying Super Man Before I Turned 21…for FREE!

    A few weeks ago I wrote about Ben — who is a cancer survivor and wrote a book about his experience — and now — You can now own his e-book, TWICE: How I Became a Cancer-Slaying Super Man Before I Turned 21…for FREE! Just follow these simple steps: 1.  Click the following link to visit my…

  • Getting you more Fit

    What can I say? It’s scorching hot in Northern VA and it’s only 7A. Be careful out there for anyone getting some fitness in, hydrate and know the signs of overexertion and rhabdo. Even getting your fitness on is not worth risking your health. And coming from me –who forsakes Sleep often in the name…

  • History of Rap Part 2

    This got me moving today —

  • Hand Stand Push Ups

    “Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.” -Wayne Dyer It’s hot and steamy in Northern VA today – like you just stepped into a sauna. Not really the kind of weather that makes you want to just jump out of bed I know. You know if you don’t…