It has been ten years since I entered into the fitness industry as a trainer. In those ten years I have experienced many different fitness options programs etc. Much of fitness tends to focus on vanity, the whole look better naked type thing. I always believed and believe it even more now then ever, that fitness is and should be about much more. How about better health? Better mobiity? Quality of life? etc.
With CrossFit, while it is a sport where we compete against ourselves, the clock, other athletes, it is still a fundamental fitness program that improves the quality and performance of life.
Again Faster has a great article called Future Selves about this. What do you want your future self to be like? For me I want to be like Jacinto Bonilla a 69 year old bad a$$ level 2 CrossFit trainer at CrossFit NYC the Black Box. CrossFit.com has a video in the CF journal about him, he competed in the CrossFit Games last year….amazing!
Sleep is one of the most underrated tools to improve performance and recovery. It is so important that early man still slept even though they did not have the secure environment of houses, locks, and security systems. Early man was low on the food chain more prey than predator, and yet from sundown to sunup […]
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We often see accessory work programmed consisting of trunk work, mobility, prehab/rehab, and even bodybuilding. Is this just to fill the hour, or is it important? Of course it is, and let me explain why! The fact that it happens to be at the end of the workout does not mean it is less important. […]
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The law of individuality tells us we are all the same, but we are all different. We are all made of blood and tissue but how we approach things or respond is individual. Everyone will respond differently based on genetics, stress load, nutrition, and recovery. However, there are some general things that you can focus […]
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