Just forewarning you now, this is going to get pretty sciency. I will do my best to limit the super dense language of it though. Our last blog covered a case study between a set of twins in which one brother died prematurely of diabetes/obesity, while the other went on to be a super ripped…
As we kick off the New Year, a common sentiment we get from people is that it’s just in their genes to be big or fat. They’ve always been that way and there’s nothing they can do about it. Well, today we dispel that myth. We are going to present you a TRUE story written…
Monica is our CFV Member of the Month! She’s a mama, a military veteran, a gamer, and a righteous human being. She loves Snapchat and Instagram, and she can keep you updated on everything going on at the gym through her snaps and stories WHILE also going hard in the paint on her workouts. That’s…
Sometimes, I don’t think we are thinking about the impressions that we make as we live out our lives. We don’t think about impressionable eyes that are on us. There are so many things going on in our mind and running through our brain, as Jobie mentioned in a previous blog, that it makes sense…
I remember when I first saw the CrossFit Games back in 2011. I remember watching like mostly everyone else at that time and just thinking that those guys were something out of the movie 300. I mean I was certain they were descendants of Leonidas himself. I remember watching the rope climb and clean and…
I will gladly admit that I know next to nothing really about the brain and I honestly do not feel bad about this. I believe I should know some things being that I am a health sciences professional but mind you that people who study the brain for a living, know next to nothing about…
We often get prospective members wondering if CrossFit is a program “for them.” They feel like the stuff they’ve seen on TV or online is meant to deter them from ever stepping foot into a CrossFit gym and nothing could be further from the truth. I understand the people that make it to the CrossFit Games…
It had been widely accepted for quite some time that you might be fit but could still end up getting seriously ill. The fallacy has been debunked but there are some things you should still know. Is it possible someone could be in really great “shape” and still get seriously ill? Sure, but this all…
“The magic is in the movement, the art is in the programming, the science is in the explanation and the fun is in the community,” – CrossFit CEO and Founder, Greg Glassman. A very common aspect amongst anyone who works out at a CrossFit gym is that they cannot stop talking about how much they…
The olympic lifts are some of the toughest movements to perform correctly, not only in CrossFit, but in sport. Olympians will spend years training solely to be able to lift one more pound. It’s no secret that the olympic lifts require a lot of extra work in order to truly have at least a novice…
