“Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.” — Aristotle It is a common human tendency to seek quick fixes and quick advances in life. In CrossFit, this concept is very much apparent where practitioners of the sport want to be better quicker by performing that ugly twisted...
“Life is not about how hard you hit, it’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving.” -- Rocky Balboa The reality of our modern day social-centric society is that it's full of insecurities created by unrealistic social standards. Therein begins the slippery slide...
“All men make mistakes but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.” -- Sophocles We're all human and therefore, we're all susceptible to human tendencies. We all eat, drink, poop (including you...
We're already in the second quarter of 2017. This year has flown by which means two things: we've grown older and more senile, but more importantly, we've either achieved or forgotten about our goals. We've talked and talked and talked about goal setting so much this year,...
Anyone new to CrossFit is required to learn the fundamental movements of CrossFit. It's a practice that is and should be exercised by CrossFit boxes around the world. The fundamental movements of CrossFit are self-explanatory: they're the basic movements that lead to the more advanced movements...
We all know--or should know--the definition of CrossFit: constantly varied functional movement performed at high intensity. The part about high intensity is something that hurts us deep on a daily basis so we're well aware of it. Functional movement is something that many haven't grasped the idea...
Fear is an extreme hindrance. It limits our capabilities and it limits possibilities and results. What's also an extreme hindrance to results is laziness. Combine the two--fear and laziness--and you've just concocted the recipe for a life and fitness regime without success. It's unfortunate that sometimes,...
Mind over matter: it's a real thing. Have you ever walked up to a barbell and psyched yourself out of a lift? We're all victim to mind-games, and in weightlifting, it's very much a reality. But in this edition of our blog—The G-Force Source—we're not...
No one is perfect and we all give in to our inner vices from time to time, including the seven social sins by Frederick Lewis Donaldson. Sloth, greed, pride, envy, wrath, gluttony and lust...
“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.” -- Friedrich Nietzsche Monsters are real. We face them in everyday struggles. We...