“Ahead of efficacy is safety.” -- Greg Glassman, CrossFit Inc. Founder and CEO There has been a long-standing, misinterpreted belief that CrossFit is all about putting your body on the line to do what's prescribed, no matter the cost. That's about as wrong as a twenty...
“Typically, the world's best athletes are minimalists when it comes to their training. They work hard and fast with few exercises. They master the fundamentals and work with them for years. This is the secret that no one wants to hear.” -- Greg Glassman, Founder...
“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...
"Hiding from your weaknesses is a recipe for incapacity and error." -- Greg Glassman, Founder of CrossFit Inc. Gymnastics is an extremely large part of the CrossFit methodology and mastering its movements is no easy task. There are layers upon layers of progressions and accessory movements...
"The CrossFit definition of an athlete is a person who is trained or skilled in strength, power, balance and agility, flexibility and endurance. The CrossFit model holds fitness, health and athleticism as strongly overlapping constructs. For most purposes, they can be seen as equivalents." --...
"The magic is in the movement, the art is in the programming, the science is in the explanation and the fun is in the community." -- Greg Glassman, CEO and Founder of CrossFit This week, the world famous and community-driven main event of CrossFit kicks off....
"Stick to the basics and when you feel you’ve mastered them, it’s time to start all over again; begin anew–again with the basics–this time paying closer attention." -- Greg Glassman, CEO and founder of CrossFit Inc. Being a newcomer to CrossFit can be scary and intimidating....
“Unsound mechanics at submaximal loads = injuries.” -- Greg Glassman, CEO and founder of CrossFit Niggles and injuries in sport are like sexually transmitted diseases in the sixties; almost everyone has them. CrossFit like all sports sees its athletes succumb to a wide range of physiological...
“Hiding from your weaknesses is a recipe for incapacity and error.” -- Greg Glassman, CEO and founder of CrossFit Different cults from the different walks of life have rites of passage which, once completed, deem individuals as accepted members of their given cult. The rites of passage...
There is a common misconception that with an intense training regime, humans can eat whatever and however they want. If that is you, give yourself an uppercut because it could not be more false. It can be argued that diet trumps physical training on a...