Maria Cortez-Garcia is our CrossFit Virilis Member of the month. She is an amazing human, mom, wife, and athlete, and you can get to know all about her by reading below! Keep going strong, Maria! How long have you been doing CrossFit? 5 years What’s your favorite workout? 🤔🤔🤔 I’ll get back to you in this…
What’s the WOD? A Hero workout? We have to do THAT?! The preface: Everything is modifiable, so regardless of how it’s written, there is a version for everyone. Hero workouts are written to memorialize men and women who have made the ultimate sacrifice, dying in their line of duty, of the many military branches and…
In 1961, the American Heart Association published an article in “Time Magazine”. The title of which simply said “Cholesterol: And now the bad news”. The image on the magazine has become iconic. Two eggs with a strip of bacon making a sad face. Saturated fat and cholesterol began to get demonized and we were on…
Betty Ann Venth is our CrossFit Virilis Member of the Month for May! She is strong, mighty, and so many other great things, and we’re so glad she is in our CrossFit Virilis family. Three cheers for this strong human! How long have you been doing CrossFit? 2012-2015 and 2019-present! What’s your favorite workout? I don’t…
I’ve spoken about this before but now felt like a good time to bring this back up. Willpower is a myth. There aren’t some people who have it more than others. In fact, no human being really has it. Giving into temptation is a human quality. It’s unavoidable. It’s in our DNA. So, why do…
Jimmie is a bright light in the gym – with greetings on the way in and high fives and fist bumps on the way out EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. So, this month, we’re excited to celebrate him as the CrossFit Virilis Member of the Month! Get to know all about him. How long have you been…
“The Big Short” is one of my favorite movies of all-time. It’s wonderfully done. The movie begins with a quote by Mark Twain that I find to be just perfect. “It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.” The movie chronicles the…
For those of you who don’t know, we get the workouts we program straight from CrossFit.com. They’ve been posting one workout a day, 3 days on followed by 1 day off, every day for the last 22 years. The current time and place we are following along with has included many 5K rows. A lot….
I believe I’ve attempted to write about this in my own way once before, and I’m sure if I went back and read that I would cringe. I’m going to re-attempt to explain what fitness is in accordance with the definition CrossFit founder, Greg Glassman, came up with 20 some odd years ago but you…
I remember writing about this about a year ago when I first saw this clip, but I recently saw it again and it struck a chord with me. Before we go any further though, I need y’all to watch the clip. Now, REALLY think about that. The concept of the mile had been invented at…
