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Man Training

Our last couple of posts have been kind of, well, heavy. First we unceremoniously took away your “heart-healthy” Quaker oats, then we went public with our break-up with CrossFit. (Technically, I suppose we were dumped, but no girl wants to admit THAT to her friends.) Since it’s been such a tough week, I decided to put a stop to all this seriousness and get back to my roots – an Urban-Gets-Diesel style training post. [...]

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Ice Rink Reckoning

Dallas, my sister Kelly and I were having a chat about weekend plans when Kelly mentioned that she recently went ice skating. See, Kelly and I both took skating lessons as kids. I only stuck with it for about a year, and frankly, I was never any good. Kelly was much better – coordinated, strong, and fearless to boot. I was awkward, all skinny long legs, with no grace to be found. [...]

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Our official response to the Robb Wolf situation

However, Dallas and I felt that as a registered CrossFit Affiliate, we needed take a formal position on recent events. We decided that Dallas would act as our official CrossFit Whole9 spokesperson, and issued a statement in response to Robb’s de-affiliation announcement. [...]

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The Whole30 Hits the Road

Today’s Whole30 topic is travel food. What do you do when you hit the road? What kinds of foods do you bring, how do you keep things fresh, and how do you avoid eating nothing but jerky, fruit and nuts while traveling? Post your best tips, tricks, travel-friendly recipes and other Good Food guidelines to comments today. [...]

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Back to gymnastics… come play at CrossFit LIC!

This weekend, however, I’ll be doing nothing but PLAYING. I’m heading to CrossFit USA in Berlin, CT, to help at Tucker’s sold-out gymnastics cert. This is my fourth cert with Tucker, and they just keep getting better. He’s constantly refining his material, adding new and innovative techniques to make you a better athlete. And his perspective on CrossFit, gymnastics and the role of strength and technique should not be missed. (Warning: don’t you dare mention a kipping ring dip in his presence. Shudder.) [...]

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Big Ups – The Koffin Edition

Here is the final installation in the CrossFit 603 “Big Ups” series. As some background… we traveled from Sacramento to San Francisco CrossFit with our friends Matt and Donna of MaD CrossFit to meet Adrian Bozman (Coach Boz) and take the Koffin’s lunch money. When we arrived, Boz told us the creator of the Koffin – Larry Gallagher himself – was on site building some plyo boxes. How. Cool. Is. That? [...]

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The Whole9 vs. California Five Oh

CHICO, CA (AP) – A Maine man found wandering outside a local CrossFit gym was held for questioning after alleged “mischievous conduct” involving a California Highway Patrol vehicle, although the police admit they are still not sure what charges technically apply. [...]

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Big Ups – Fun With Lu Edition

We enlisted the help of Lu Crenshaw, owner of CrossFit Allegiance and our shared CrossFit Crush. Seriously – Lu can out-up me by 10″… and she’s only 5′ 3″ tall. So she was all too happy to jump around with us for a couple of hours on a Sunday morning. Everyone loves a good montage, right? [...]

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The Whole9 vs. The Koffin

Check out Dallas prepping for his date with the Koffin here – a “box” jump PR of 60.5″. (Hey – when it’s THAT tall, those half inches COUNT.) We’ll let you know the results of the showdown on Sunday. [...]

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The Origins of “AssFit”

I have received at least 72 emails from people asking about the AssFit shirt featured in a few of my prior posts. (I’m wearing one in my TGU/windmill video, and Dallas is wearing one in the pictures from our recent gymnastics cert.) Rather than respond individually, I thought it best if I addressed your questions [...]

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