Julia Jost is our CrossFit Virilis Member of the Month. She is also a very recent graduate of UT Tyler with her MBA with a Marketing Concentration!! (Congrats, grad!) Each day Julia comes in ready to train for life. She is motivating and puts in the work to get the results. She’s also funny, smart,…
CrossFit can just seem like a bunch of random workouts thrown together from the untrained eye, but as we covered last week, true variance is not random. There is a method to the madness. One of the guiding lights to that madness are the 10 general physical skills. Beyond the balance across energy pathways and…
There are three main tenets of CrossFit’s program. The definition of CrossFit is: constantly varied, functional movements at high intensity. Functional movements all these years later still gets mistaken by those outside the community and even some inside it. Intensity is also tough to explain especially to those that are not in the community. But,…
I know it may not seem like it but there is plenty of method to the madness that is the CrossFit gallery of movements. Yes, even burpees have plenty of utility and purpose. The movement we’re going to discuss today is just your basic squat. It’s actually not even a movement really. It became that…
Lindsey Deaver is our CrossFit Virilis Member of the Month! She is a teacher, a wife, and a strong and mighty human, among many other things! We love her determination and dedication. She has committed herself to combining a great consistency with her CrossFit sessions plus progress she has made with our Nutrition Accountability Program….
The number on the scale has such a powerful meaning to most Americans. We obsess over it. Check it daily. “Be sure to do it first thing in the morning, you’ll be lighter,” countless friends have told you. “You gotta do it after you eat a normal meal, that’ll be more accurate,” people say. Who…
Maya Angelou said: “You can only become great at that thing you’re willing to sacrifice for.” “I suck at double unders!” “I just can’t get a bar muscle up!” “I just can’t seem to string together chest to bar pull ups!?” During his third season with the Lakers, Kobe Bryant suffered an injury to his…
I’ve heard this question ad nauseam since we’ve started announcing that the Open is fast approaching. It happens every year. “I’m just gonna waste $20.” “Oh, CrossFit HQ just wants my money.” “I’m not even gonna place.” I hear all the same reasons over and over too. I’ve been in the community since 2010 and…
How long have you been doing CrossFit? Three and a half years, I think. What’s your favorite workout? Any workout that is quick and intense. It makes me want to push myself and not stop. What’s your favorite movement? SQUATS! SQUATS! SQUATS! Why do you do CrossFit? Well, it started because I was just looking…
One of the hallmark phrases of CrossFit coined by Coach Greg Glassman is, “Be impressed by intensity, not volume.” I was thinking of how true this phrase is two weeks ago before the end of the world struck us. In the gym, we did a workout that I believe most, if not all of us,…
