What is Parkour? What is CrossFit Marin??

A 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

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One 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

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If 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…

Musings on CFM Programming

It’s ok to ask questions regarding the programming.  Two of our newest clients, Katie Cookle’s friend Christina and Karine were in one of my classes yesterday.  The WOD was a strength couplet of weighted Pistols and weighted pull-ups. …

CrossFit Disco?

CrossFit Disco The last workout of our trip out to Miami was this. 70 Double Unders 60 KB Snatches 1 pood 50 Box Jumps 40 Wall Ball Burpees 30 Chest to Bar Pull Ups 20 Clean and Jerk 60kg 10 Clapping Push Ups You…

You Don’t Know What You Can Do

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Everybody: you have no idea how fit you are.  This is a pretty funny statement, considering that we stress the importance of knowing your times and remembering how much you can lift.  We even have a fancy program (the athletics log) that can…

Quick Tidbit on Sugar and Fun With Slomo

Front Toss In Slow Motion Here’s a short article on one person’s experience with cutting out sugar. Living Sugar Free. In it he discusses the clear benefit he experienced with cutting out sugar. It goes well beyond weight folks. The…

FilFest 2010

Day 1 of the affiliate gathering. We have heard the state of CrossFit from Greg Glassman, discussed the progress of the certification program. CrossFit certifications will soon be accredited. We have taken the new level 1 certificate exam. Following…

Running Barefoot Is Better

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Running barefoot, or at least with minimalist footwear reduces injury rates and encourages better running mechanics. We’ve talked about this quite a bit. Harvard just released the results on a study supporting this. Our shoes are causing problems.…

Being Fit Just Feels Good

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Several years ago I was doing conditioning after one of my gymnastics workouts. A coach at the gym I was training at walked up and asked me “Why do you do this to yourself?”. The first thing that came to mind was “Why don’t you?”.…