Remember when your mom told you to eat your vegetables? Turns out Mom knows what she’s talking about. Vegetables play a big role in the next topic on nutrition, micronutrients. While fruits and vegetables are not the only foods that contain micronutrients they are a really important piece of the nutrition puzzle. Micronutrients are important […]
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Macronutrients are essential nutrients that are needed in large amounts on a daily basis. If we consider our daily intake of food as a jar to fill, macronutrients would be the big rocks that take up the bulk of the room in the jar. These important nutrients help run the ship of our body as […]
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“Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.” -Hippocrates Nutrition is one of those topics like politics and religion that can get heated fast. We can make it simple or we can complicate the crap out of it. In reality, however, it is both simple and complicated. It is simple in that […]
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Here we are one week into the Squat Virtuosity Challenge. We have a few more weeks to go and I am excited to see the progress that is bound to come. I wanted to take a little time and lay out a few things based on the challenge as a whole and some of the […]
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Our next CrossFit West Houston Evolve to Your Strongest Self Challenge is a 30 day Push Up Challenge! This challenge is designed do two things one work on push ups to make them better and to improve the number of push ups that you you can do in two minutes! The challenge will begin and […]
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The holiday season is upon us. Time gets shorter, food is in abundance, and stress gets off the charts. Every year we see the calendar change, football season comes we know it is around the corner. The weather gets a bit cooler, and we know it is imminent. Halloween comes and bam it hits us. […]
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A few years ago, the CrossFit West Houston staff gathered to brain storm the brand. The end result of those discussions was the slogan “Evolve to Your Strongest Self”. Recently, we have begun to revisit it to make it more embedded in the CFWH culture. There are many aspects to evolution of human strength; there […]
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“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit.” Aristotle Over the last 17 years I have become a student and observer of human movement. Over those years, things have changed considerably when it comes to how we move. When I first started in this business, people typically […]
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Meet Svetlana. Svetlana came to us very new to CrossFit West Houston and new to CrossFit as she had just moved to Houston for a job from Norway. It was fun to watch her grow over the close to 2 years that she was here. I was lucky enough to work with her on some […]
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Back in 2002 CrossFit was in its infancy well before it became a market leader as it is today. Greg Glassman the founder of CrossFit wrote a two part article called “What is Fitness?”. In part one Glassman outlines the four Fitness models that CrossFit is based upon. Today we are going to look at […]
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Over the last seventeen years in the fitness business from my start as a Personal Trainer to currently owner of CrossFit West Houston, I have learned a lot about movement, nutrition health and the human body. Daily I am amazed at how the human body can perform and how it functions inside and out. It […]
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On January 21st, CrossFit West Houston turned ten years old. Ten years in business is a pretty big milestone. Big milestones offer a time to reflect on the good, the bad and the ugly. Certainly, there has been all those things in the last decade, but from all of that there were lessons. The last […]
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Get your Head Right. Adopting a positive mindset before you even step foot in to the gym and recognizing that you can control (to a certain extent) how you choose to react to the outside temperature is step one. If you walk in to the gym and immediately think you’re freezing and complain to everyone […]
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Go into any commercial gym and you will see rows and rows of cardio machines, treadmills, stair machines, and ellipticals. Over the years, the “Cardio” area in commercial gyms has grown while the free weight area has shrunk. Given that more space is given to cardio machines, cardio must be the answer to losing weight […]
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