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The holidays are over and it’s time for endurance athletes old and new to start looking at how they want to fill up their race calendar. This is probably the most stressful time of the year for us since any race you commit to means money spent upfront that weather, injuries or annoying life events can abruptly cancel with no …
If you’re reading this, there’s a chance you just joined our gym – CrossFit RVA. While these lessons can be applied to many of our members, this one’s specifically for you. Dedicating yourself to fitness and self-improvement can be a life changing event, but for many, the hardest part is simply stepping through the door and establishing a good routine. …
I take for granted each year how many new members we have that don’t know what the Open is. I’m sure that coming from any other gym environment, you just don’t expect there to be an inclusive, worldwide test of fitness waiting for you. But there is. And if there was one thing that we as a gym train for …
Just a few quick things: First of all, I would like to thank everyone who donated food or cash at the gym for the FoodBank. Thanks to all of you we collected a whopping 241lbs of food to help feed the needy this holiday season! If you didn’t get a chance and would still like to donate you can go …
Recently you may have noticed our slightly awkward but amazingly informative training videos dubbed over with killer, non-copyrighted music, titled MovementRVA. This is our next evolution to create as much helpful training information as possible. We believe that thoughtful information builds better athletes.Our mission is to deliver instructive, interesting, and polished print and video media to CrossFit RVA and the …
And so we’re coming to an end of another racing season and looking forward to fattening up for the holidays before more races come our way in Feb 2015. Everyone did really well on their individual races last weekend. Eileen got a PR of nearly 5 minutes on her 8K with 51:24 (write it on the board!!) and knows that …
If you’re smelling blue liquid all over the place, you’ve either passed out behind the porta johns at Coachella, or it’s race time in Richmond! The Richmond Marathon, Half Marathon and 8K are on Saturday the 15th. We already know it’s going to be tough to get around so why not get outside early and cheer some people on? We …
Last week we touched on some different ways to start scaling your push-ups. The other movement we see a lot of new members struggle with is the pull-up. Setup Hands should be shoulder width or very slightly wider. Overhand (palms facing away) is what we do most commonly, but it’s great to make your pull-up strength progress more well-rounded by …
RVA Owner Jake Rowell and 2014 4th Place Finisher at NAS Nationals Morgan German go through the points of performance for the Atlas stone load.
