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These are the two things essential to warming up. Without them, and your warm up isn’t a warm up. It becomes a meaningless process of going through the motions as you convince yourself that your half-hearted inchworms are going to help with your deadlifts later that day. You have often heard of the Central Nervous […]

Most people fail at change because they don’t address the psychological aspect. In fitness, the illusion of bigger muscles, increased work capacities or leaner physiques amplify this. Bodybuilders however, compile some of the most insecure people in the industry. Elite CrossFitters can be exceptionally one dimensional. Because how you look on stage after 8 weeks

Injuries are an inevitable part of any physical endeavour; whether these are serious and debilitating in nature – a torn pectoral muscle, a rolled ankle – or small and unsuspecting – the micro tears that occur during the process of adaptation. Physiologically, injury occurs when one exceeds their capacity to handle stress. Read that again.

Strength is the ability to produce force to overcome resistance. In the gym, the weight on the bar represents the resistance and strength is the ability to move it.Someone who is stronger can produce more force and therefore move greater loads. This is the perspective that most are familiar with. But there is another way

For those that competed over the last 3 weeks, this question should be top of mind. Workouts present a test. Testing is an opportunity to become acquainted with one’s weaknesses. It should be based on an internal gauge of what these are, fuelled by the experiences during testing. In certain cases, this may be informed

Don’t blame your strategy. Blame your fitness. We get hung up on the wrong metrics. As a result, we miss the point. This is a practice. I have failed many times in years past. Correction: I fail all the time at this. Weekly. After a brief period of reflection however, I’m reminded: It wasn’t my

I have referred to fitness as a conversation. For those that understand this, this will seem reasonable. For those yet to grasp it, start by being curious. If we take “fitness is a conversation” to be true, then the next question becomes: “what is the point?” I have my own ideas. But these are irrelevant.

A moment. There is a moment in the morning. When the alarm goes off. It’s black, outside, but inside too. There are no distractions. Just stillness. The brain begins to register. To take in its surroundings. That’s when the moment arrives. It is a question. “Why?” It asks. “Why do you do this?” In the

The Program. I’ll be the first to put my hand up. Self-regulation is a skill I am still developing. Because of this I make poor decisions. I make the wrong decisions. I compete when the intent is to practice. I misjudge my abilities. I am far more concerned about the weight on my neighbours bar

Don’t be lazy. Don’t be stupid. I keep returning to this quote from Michael Blevins of nonprophet. Blevins, for those that don’t know, trained Henry Cavil in Superman. His approach however, is very different from a typical celebrity trainer. He spends far more time postulating on the philosophy of change than selling workout programmes and