Competition Programming; Are You Really Benefitting?

Competition Programming; Are You Really Benefitting?

    This is an article I have been wanting to write for a long time.  Over my years of doing CrossFit I have tried various strength and metabolic conditioning programs.  Some have greatly influenced how I do my own programming.  Many of the authors of these

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Pursue What is Meaningful, Not What is Expedient

Pursue What is Meaningful, Not What is Expedient

      A great book I have recently read is 12 Rules Of Life by Jordan Peterson, which offers some insightful views on life.  In this book, Dr. Peterson applies the rules of the past and applies them to present day.  Much of what is talked

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Phosphgen Pathway Experiment-Based of September 18,2018 WOD

Phosphgen Pathway Experiment-Based of September 18,2018 WOD

     This is going to be a little different as it pertains to a particular workout that DCL performed on September 18, 2018.  This was a great workout and an experiment for me as a programmer/coach.  As previously stated in my other post on the three

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H2O!!!

BLUF: Stay hydrated for maximum wellness and performance in The Lab and Life! Many of us are fully-acquainted with the concept of “drinking enough water.” We won’t dive-in (pun intended) to the discussion of how much is enough/not enough/too much. Rather, let’s discuss what’s happening to us

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Importance of Training Isometrics

Importance of Training Isometrics

When we talk about human movement there are three main motions that we must focus on.  They are concentric, eccentric, and isometric.  Concentric is the motion of the distal ends of the muscles moving closer to one another.  Eccentric is the distal ends moving away from one

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