O. M. G. The CrossFit Olympic Weightlifting course is like the best carnival ride ever. You finish and you immediately want to line up and go back through it all over again and again. Or perhaps I’m just starstruck by having Coach Bergener teach me for a weekend. And a team of assistant coaches that …
I was helping with a WOD the other day with overhead squats. This chick had a terrible squat. As I was trying to coach her into a better position, she told me she’d been working on her squats for two years. If she’d really been working on her squat for two years, she should have …
It’s Hell Week at the gym! Two WODs per day, one at 5am, one at the time of your choice. You guys, I’m totally on to this Hell Week instructor. He always gives us short intervals to complete stuff – you have 20 seconds to grab a kettlebell, you have 10 seconds to get against …
I met a girl the other day at a power lifting class who broke her humerus trying to bench press 300 pounds. Ho. ly. crap. I’ve seen her scars, and I never want to think about that again. It still makes me shudder. I have no need to ever be lifting the kind of weight …
I have a muscle strain in my calf from a well-intentioned-but-poorly-conceived 7 mile hike I did back in January. My usual hiking distance is 3-4 miles, so 7 miles was just too much. It triggered this nerve pain in my lower leg that is quite familiar – I struggled with this pain for years when …
Pain is temporary, pride is forever. That’s a bunch of crap, right there. Pain is an important signal to the body that something is wrong. In fact, pain isn’t even a great indicator of that, because pain is a lagging indicator. You don’t know you did something wrong often until well after the deed has …
Decrepitude. That word scares the poo out of me. The idea that we are all ultimately wasting away, decaying, becoming weaker and less able, day after day. Lately, that word cropped up when I took the Level 1 Crossfit Trainer course. During one of the lectures, the instructor was espousing that if we build up …
I’ve been in training to become a CrossFit coach for a couple of months now. I did the formal Level 1 Trainer certificate program back in December, and have been attending classes on the side, assisting at the box twice a week, and generally trying to become more aware of what I’m seeing when I …
I don’t know why my hands rip so much. But they do, and badly. Experimenting with new methods of hand maintenance, but it’s a slow process of trial and error.