Last night, knowing that I would be spending the rest of the weekend in Chicago for the North Central regionals, I took some time to "talk" with and read with my baby girl. I've come to realize these are precious moments in a father's life because … [Read more...]

The cleanjerk is a auxiliary exercise I learned from Ursula in the past year. It's an exercise designed at increasing the lifters capability in three specific areas. First it increases mobility. The lifter completing the cleanjerk must have … [Read more...]

August 15th-17th, 2014The Power and Grace Performance Camps are designed to enhance the attendees’ understanding and efficiency across a broad range of movements including the Olympic lifts and specific skill work. These seminars are geared … [Read more...]

I like to use golf analogies a lot in comparison to weightlifting because there are so many similarities and I love both sports. I remember the very first time I hit a long drive off the tee and the ball went exactly where I had planned on it going. … [Read more...]

The time has finally come. Crossfit Deep Ellum has left its original location and has finally moved into our new, improved space. After almost 4 years in our original location it was a little bittersweet to hold our first classes this morning in our … [Read more...]

"I lift up my eyes to the hills. From where does my help come? My help comes from the LORD, who made heaven and earth."Psalm 121:1-2This past weekend I had the unbelievable privilege and joy to lead the faith Rx'D Iron sharpens Iron training camp in … [Read more...]

We finished at the Regionals training camp for power and grace yesterday and honestly I could not be more excited for the Regionals to begin. The value of training camps where your athletes are able to get away from their normal training environment … [Read more...]

We spent yesterday practicing the first day and I was amazed at the amount of fitness in the room. Nasty Girls V2 is going to be an awesome race to the finish!Here's some clips of the hang snatch action. … [Read more...]

Last weekend before the regionals begin! With all of the workouts announced and every athlete knowing what lays before then it's time to prepare. There's going to be a lot of fitness in Houston this weekend. All of the Power and Grace athletes (minus … [Read more...]

Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through … [Read more...]

Well HQ has been good to continue in the same trend so far. I absolutely love the emphasis on body control and gymnastics skill. What's more, I love the forced strict reps. You will find no bigger advocate for the necessity of strict strength before … [Read more...]

I could not be more excited for the first day of Regionals. Those of you who have been living under a rock you will not have noticed that the first day of Regionals is heavily loaded against the weaker, unskilled athlete. I cannot thank HQ enough for … [Read more...]

Coming up this June is our next training camp for Faith Rx'D. This one is being held in Denver at Backcountry Crossfit with some special guest attendees. Becky Conzelman and Chris Spealler will be attending and helping with this training camp.Faith … [Read more...]

Sorry for the late post. I spent the better part of the day getting the new gym ready with the boys at CrossFit Deep Ellum. Seems a bit bittersweet knowing that I will get to enjoy it for only a small amount of time. With that being said it's going … [Read more...]

I wanted to take this Saturday and highlight two athletes on the up and coming in the weightlifting world. First here is Thomas. School-Age lifter in the 62kg class @ age 14. He did a prep meet today for the Youth Nationals coming up. He went 5 … [Read more...]