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I Make Mistakes So You Don’t Have To: 2014 Edition

Last year I wrote a three part series titled A System For Developing Competitive CrossFitters The final installment was…

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Training Tactics for the Advanced CrossFit Athlete-Part 3, A.B.C.

CrossFit is an endurance sport. I know you don’t want it to be. Hell, I don’t want it to be. Strength is cool. Cardio…

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Training Tactics for the Advanced CrossFit Athlete-Part 2, Train Your Warmup

Check out Part 1 of this series In recent years, great advances have been made in the way athletes warm up –…

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Training Tactics for the Advanced CrossFit Athlete-Part 1

Once an athlete has reached advanced stages of development, improving the efficacy of their training can be a daunting…

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Misconceptions About ‘The Catapult’ vs ‘Triple Extension’

I’m really sick of the “catapult” versus “triple extension” thing. So much so that whenever someone asks me questions…

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Coach’s Corner-Clean and Jerk

Reid Worthington 340# Clean and Jerk complex The Clean As Reid breaks the bar from the floor, he is looking down. This…

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The Name of The Game

What’s the word for the physical trait that allows an athlete to perform high rep deadlifts with 315 pounds mixed with…

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Choosing An Off-Season Competition

As most people who know me are aware, I’m not a big fan of my CrossFit Games hopefuls doing competitive exercise in the…

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Do It Yourself Bulgarian

If you’ve spent any time around competitive weightlifting, it’s likely that you’re familiar with the so-called…

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The Not-So-Evils of High Rep Weightlifting

Since the dawn of man – or at least since the popularization of CrossFit – the intranets has been ablaze with coaches…

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A Guide to Your 1st Weightlifting Meet-Part 2

In Part I, we discussed the pre-meet preparations. Here we’ll talk about the meet itself. On Arrival Now that the…

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A Guide to Your 1st Weightlifting Meet, Part 1

Look, at some point you’re going to have to do it. Nothing you do is really going to count until you do it for white…