Emily's Games Experience
CrossFit, NewsMost of you know Emily. Because of the kids she can be found in our gym at varying times of the day. Her presence is always a good thing. Fun and high spirited, and always one to support anyone who is present. If you haven’t met her first…
High Fructose Corn Syrup
UncategorizedI would do a post about how the pressure of sport and competition drive us toward working harder and are a fundamental part of the CrossFit program. However, I’m bitter about not being able to go to the Games sectionals, so I’m going to…
Day 2 Final Results
UncategorizedFinal results are in. The final workouts were clever. It required some strategy between the two to maximize the results. Roger ended up hitting 175 on the Squat Clean and Overhead with a Power Clean, Front Squat and Push Press (Saving his poor…
Ok, we’re off. IT’s the CrossFit Games Northern California Sectionals, after all…
CrossFit, NewsWe’re leaving tomorrow morning. Roger, Emily, Bill, and myself will be competing from CFM. Martin signed up, but he is recovering from the flu or something. Some of our other girls and boys will be competing at the Affiliate Cup, but…
Day 1 Final Results
UncategorizedDay 1 is done. Our athletes performed pretty well overall. Here are the rankings. For the men, of 278 athletes Andres came in 72nd, Roger at 141st and Bill at 237th. For the Women, of 141 athletes Emily came in 65th. And yeah, she was worried…
What is Parkour? What is CrossFit Marin??
NewsA little over a week ago, on March 17th, I wrote up a blog post detailing the little exchange I had with Kevin and Rebecca Gann regarding “what is gymnastics”. The post titled, “What is Gymnastics? Inside the Gymnastics Life- Stanford…
Elite Fitness
CrossFit, NewsOne of the slogans you’ll see in CrossFit is “Forging Elite Fitness.” We’ve pretty much beat the definition of Fitness to death (increased work capacity across broad time and modal domains). But what do we mean by elite? The…
Improved Health Through Taxation
General Health, NewsIf you haven’t heard there are proposals for a tax on sodas. This “sugar” tax is similar to the various tobacco taxes. From experience with taxing tobacco it is pretty clear that taxation reduces usage. The taxes would lead to price increases…
