I know that a lot of you kool-aid drinking CrossFitters like to talk jive about all those skinny ultra runners and Ironman athletes  (Don’t feel bad, they have a few choice words for you large quad having, chalk covered CrossFitters too)  In the past few years a handful of brave souls have been willing to peer...Read More

  Photo credit; CF Whiteboard   I spend a lot of time discussing physiology but today I want to take the talk upstairs and discuss why CrossFit works from a psychological perspective.  One of the things that makes CrossFit workouts so effective is something called the Social facilitation theory.  Social facilitation theory is the tendency for people who...Read More

I know I said I was going to do this on a weekly basis but quite frankly I have way too much to say to only bloviate once a week.  Today I am going to discuss the other half of the movement, the part that we never really see programmed in CrossFit….. the eccentric phase....Read More

Those who know me know that I love writing opinion pieces almost as much as I love CrossFit.  Since I don’t have enough going on already, every Friday I am going to pick a topic that is salient to the CrossFit community and deliver it to you.  Some of you may have checked out my...Read More