Nutrinformation 9 November 2018

Nutrinformation 9 November 2018

Hello again DCL! Hope you’ve had a great week in this tornado-laden tundra. Rather than burdening you with boisterous and bountiful bundles of choice vocabulary, let’s share a reminder of what CrossFit considers the basis for healthy eating for wellness and performance. Combining constantly-varied, functional movements done

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Why a 1RM Doesn’t always Mean a New personal record

  “Don’t have $100 shoes and a 10 cent squat”      Let’s face it, no one likes to do volume work.  No one likes to do heavy weights for multiple reps.  We all just want to get straight to the point and go for a new

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Kids Need to Get Out and Play

     Well it’s summertime again and just like in previous years, parents are racing around town trying to get from one child’s practice to the next.  This is a great thing, although maybe not for a parent’s sanity.  As we enter this summer my warning to

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When to Scale and When to Push Yourself to As Prescribed (RX)

When to Scale and When to Push Yourself to As Prescribed (RX)

     Sitting here watching the CrossFit Games is inspiring and always fun to watch.  I love watching amazing athletes push themselves far beyond what we in the community ever thought was possible five years ago.  I remember watching “Amanda” happen for the first time and seeing

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Minimal Effort; Minimal Results

Minimal Effort; Minimal Results

Why do some athletes achieve high levels of sports results and some do not?  This is a question I am often asked.  “Matt why can’t I do a kipping pull up?”,  “Matt my snatch technique sucks”.  These are comments I often hear from many different athletes.  Why

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Mobility and CrossFit

    Mobility and CrossFit Why are we even doing it? Matthew Biolsi – June 21, 2016 How flexible are you.  Let’s be honest most of us aren’t nearly as flexible as we want to be.  Even those of us who are flexible, what is the point of

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American Youth and Weightlifting

American Youth and Weightlifting

It’s been an amazing week for Team DCL Weightlifting.  I had the privilege of taking Danielle and Makinley to the USAW 2016 National Youth Championships and our girls performed phenomenally over these past few days.  Over the weekend I had made several observations of the future of

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Breathing Mechanics

Breathe People…Breathe!!  Proper Breathing Mechanics for Weightlifting and Metabolic Conditioning Dcl Blog #3 – February 17, 2016You have to breathe!!! From the day we are born, we have involuntary muscle movements.  Our body is born knowing how to do certain things.  It knows how to pump blood

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Importance of Box Jumps in Explosive Training

Importance of box jumps in explosive training. Matt Biolsi DCL Blog #2             It’s time to clear up some misconceptions of explosive training.  Lately, I’ve been working with a couple of rugby athletes and they were asking me to help improve their “explosive power”.  Even though I

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Weightlifting…My thoughts

 Technical issues or something else?      I’ll confess, as I write this blog I am sitting here watching the AFC Championship Game and not watching the East Coast Championships, which are live streaming.  I love sitting down watching two future hall of famers, Peyton Manning and

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