As a sport, CrossFit requires very little in the way of equipment. Most everyone owns workout clothes and shoes that can be used at the gym. We don’t really care what kind of clothes you wear, but we do think that your shoes can affect your ability to work out effectively. Start [...]

What are your trainers looking for when you are blazing through a workout? Firstly, we are making sure that you are moving safely, that’s priority number one. Secondly, we are looking for full range of motion in all of your movements. Too often, we are consumed with the clock and how to [...]

What do I eat?
Directly from CrossFit.com, “base your diet on garden vegetables, especially greens, lean meats, nuts and seeds, little starch, and no sugar.” What CrossFit HQ says, and what we agree with, is eat things that are natural. No processed goods, canned foods, chips, oreos, etc. We know that eating healthy [...]

You’re going to find that some of our food recommendations eliminate the “grain” food group. This includes cereal, bread, crackers, rice, and pasta. Why, you ask? When eaten, the foods from the grain group break down into simple sugars almost immediately after ingestion and the sugar floods your blood. The rapid [...]

Our bodies are complex machines that are capable of incredible work output. In order to get them firing on all cylinders, we have to supply them with appropriate nourishment. Food is the fuel that powers our bodies and we want to be sure we are supplying it with high quality gasoline (think high [...]

Just as most people that first try Crossfit are skeptical that a 10-20 minute workout can accomplish their fitness goals, even more people cannot fathom that they can become good endurance athletes without training 25-30 hours a week…

CrossFit is a strength and conditioning program whose goal is a high level of work capacity, conditioning in all metabolic pathways, and the mastery of 10 elements of fitness as we define them. It is the development of the highest level of GPP (General Physical Preparedness) imaginable. We are all training to be [...]

Tapping into, and improving the efficiency of our energy sources is one of the main tenants of Crossfit. So let’s look at the 3 main energy pathways…

Consistency can be our greatest strength when it comes to training. Sure, I’d throw in genetics ahead of that, but we don’t have much control here. In a sense, consistency is more important than your programming, the movements you do, or anything else in training for that matter.

Remember the first time you set foot in our gym? Maybe it happened after following our website for days, maybe after watching us work out from afar, maybe after getting sucked into it by a friend. Whatever your reasons, wasn’t it a little scary? Like going to the first day of school?
Some [...]