Let’s talk mobility. For the past month you have all been eating better, sleeping better, lifting more, and moving faster. But can you touch your toes? Clasp your hands behind your back? If we did the Presidential Fitness Test, would you pass the flexibility portion? This is elementary school stuff, guys. The ability to bend over and pick something up …
River City Strongman Challenge 2011
The River City Strongman Challenge is coming to our new facility at 900 West Leigh Street on 9/10/11. 100% of spectator admission will go to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. Please come spectate to cheer on competitors and contribute to a good cause. The RCSC will have a novice class to all interested in giving the sport of Strongman a …
Self Improvement
The secret to success in CrossFit is not dependent on conditions and objects found external to the body, nor is it dependent on heaven sent DNA. The barbell doesn’t care how bad your lungs hurt and the pull-up bar certainly doesn’t care how fried your forearms are. Likewise, most of us don’t hit the genetic jackpot for athletic ability and …
Performance Nutrition Challenge 2
On August 30th, our next Performance Nutrition Challenge will begin. Our last PNC was extremely successful – those who stuck with for the entire 8 weeks saw significant performance and body composition changes. With 20+ participants last time, we’re hoping to get even more RVA trainees involved, and see even more progress. Simply put, most of us at the gym …
Maryland State Open
Jeff, Brian, and myself went up to Maryland today, where Jeff competed in his first weightlifting competition. After months of hard training, Jeff successfully completed 5 of 6 attempts, hitting a PR clean and jerk of 300#!
Mindfulness in Training
I’m hesitant to call this an article – it’s more like a collection of thoughts that, while not presenting any particularly new information, will hopefully get you thinking, just a little. Training is inherently a mental, as well as a physical process. We know and accept this easily. We see people get pumped up before a big lift, flip their …
CrossFit Regionals Recap, Part 3
Start at the beginning or go back to part 2. I’m fast forwarding to Sunday because we spectated and relaxed on Saturday. I’ll go so far as to say there were some Pay-Lee-Noooooo meals between Friday and Saturday with some meals being better than others. Mark was kind enough to grill some food for us on Friday night, which was …
Nikki’s Nutrition Challenge Review
Nikki was one of the winners of our recent Performance Nutrition Challenge. I hope you all can learn from her experiences! First, I think it should be known that I had no intentions of participating in the Nutrition Challenge, and that I was talked into it by my other half (John G). I can say that I was just plain …
CrossFit Regionals Recap, Part 2
Back to Part 1. Regionals Day 1 continued… WOD 2 15 Minutes to reach a heavy single in the Snatch 5 minutes to complete as many head to ground handstand push-ups as possible Score is the sum of max weight lifted by each athlete plus total repetitions of handstand push-ups. Ahhhhhh… the only reason that Brian was even invited to …
CrossFit Regionals Recap, Part 1
This started off as a simple recap, but it turned into a novella and I’m sorry for that. I tried to write about all the details of our experience at Regionals without leaving anything out. Read it if you’d like, or leave it behind. The Central East Regionals… Starring: Jacob “Coach” Rowell Jake drove us to the Hocking Hills which …