Anybody who's done any sort of significant training for any extended period of time knows that not every day is sunflowers and roses. Not every day is filled with PR weights and not every day feels easy or how you want it to feel. That's called … [Read more...]

Anybody who's done any sort of significant training for any extended period of time knows that not every day is sunflowers and roses. Not every day is filled with PR weights and not every day feels easy or how you want it to feel. That's called … [Read more...]

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I've said in multiple articles over the last couple years that the best developer of a weightlifter is general physical preparedness and overall athleticism. The best developers of those things are other sports outside of weightlifting. There are … [Read more...]

Just a reminder guys that the deadline for signing up for the #crazystrong competition next weekend is January 31. This competition will be the Saturday programming next week and all of you following the competition blog will be doing it anyways. … [Read more...]

I just spent the weekend in snowy Boston, Massachusetts watching/coaching some of the Power and Grace athletes compete in the East Coach Championships hosted by Crossfit New England. To be honest and as a bit of a disclaimer, I have never been a … [Read more...]

What do most great athletes do when they are faced with defeat? What does a baseball player do when he is in the middle of a slump? What does a weightlifter do when he is faced up with lack of progress? The best don't get consumed by it, the best … [Read more...]

As a 19-year-old single dude many of the things that grab the affections and attention of my heart no longer do. What's more, as a 27-year-old married man with a 10-month-old little girl, there are a lot of things that I pay attention to, feel an … [Read more...]

With the upcoming jerk emphasis in the weightlifting program, I am going to be introducing some different core exercises as well as some different jerk exercises we have not done before. This one is called a jerk dip to split. I'm sure there are 1000 … [Read more...]

I wanted to give everyone following the workouts a little bit of an update on where we are in the programming. For those of you on the weightlifting blog it should be painfully clear this week that we are sort of "reloading" for a pretty tough cycle … [Read more...]

This evening as I was finishing up a workout I had a quick little conversation with an athlete about her rowing form. As I was correcting some of the minor faults in her recovery phase of the stroke, she made a comment. She said, mid stroke, "but … [Read more...]

I spent the weekend at CrossFit Mobile working with their gym on the snatch and clean and jerk. Cortney Batchelor graciously co-coached the weekend with me. I was told ahead of time that this gym was more than just familiar with the Olympic lifts. In … [Read more...]

With the upcoming "CrossFit Season" on the horizon, we are re-initiating regular posts for our movement blog. What we realized a couple months ago is that creating a subsection of our already extensive work for our followers to add to their … [Read more...]

Coming up this February, Faith RX'D is hosting it's first camp of the year. CrossFit TNL has been gracious enough to host us in Tampa Bay, Florida. Those of you who are interested in creating avenues between how integrate the Gospel of Jesus Christ … [Read more...]

It's a new semester at King's Ridge. What that means is about 85% of my weightlifting classes have had a semester of seasoning and technique work under their belt. For these athletes, it's going to be a semester of pushing the weights a bit more than … [Read more...]