We spent the first 30 minutes working gymnastics skill movements – handstand holds, ring dips, and pull-ups. When it came time for the met-con, gym owner Greg Adams started dragging stuff out into their huge parking lot and Dallas kept avoiding my eye contact. At that point, I knew I was in trouble. Whole9 readers, meet The Prowler. [...]

On our way out of Texas, we stopped at a road-side picnic area just west of Fort Stockton, ready to get our sweat on. With only a few truckers to keep us company, we set up our rings, mapped a sprint course and set our KBs up for action. [...]

When you’re on the road, you take every opportunity you can get to eat, sleep and train as well as possible, which often means making the best of a less than ideal situation.

Yesterday, we woke up feeling the need to pick up something heavy. Since there aren’t any CrossFit gyms in the Keys (seriously!) and all we have with us in terms of weighs are a couple ofkettlebells, we headed up to the local “box” – Pirate Wellness Center. [...]

We woke up in the Keys to winds blowing too hard to go fishing, so we decided to hit a quick and dirty met-con down by the water. While those “kitchen sink” WODs can be fun to program, including 17 different movements and complicated rep schemes isn’t necessary for an effective, high intensity workout. [...]

While in San Diego two weeks ago, Dallas and I were lucky enough to visit “Coach B” (Mike Burgener, the famous Olympic lifting coach) at his home in southern California. We headed up in the afternoon to get a tour of his place, work with him on some Olympic lifting and then go eat some giant steaks. [...]