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How Should You Eat… What Is Best For You?

It’s no secret that health and fitness lifestyles can be difficult to maintain. With so much information out there, it can be hard to know which approach is best for you and your goals. The options are pretty much endless when it comes to tracking your nutrition, exercise, and overall…

2023 02 12

What Motivates You?

By: Mike Devaney 0

Are you one of those people who don't know how to stay motivated to work out? You're not alone! We all go through this struggle. It's easy to get discouraged when you're not seeing the progress you want, or when you don't have the time to hit the gym. But…

2023 01 31

Are You Ready???

By: Mike Devaney 0

Are you ready to take the plunge and find the right nutrition plan for you? Many of us know that eating healthy is important, but it's hard to know where to start. It's not as easy as just following a generic diet plan or hoping for the best. The truth…

2023 01 20

Now I Know My A, B, CAAs

By: Cody Volk 0

Amino acids are organic compounds mostly composed of nitrogen, hydrogen, carbon, and oxygen. They are found in protein-rich foods like meat and seafood and perform many important roles in the body. There are 20 amino acids that the body needs to function, and nine of these are labeled essential amino…

2022 07 31

Workout Frequency: How Many Days?

By: Cody Volk 0

Seriously. How many days a week should we be exercising? CrossFit is so much fun - even if our faces don't show it right before the WOD. It's easy to show up everyday of the week to see your favorite coach and your friends. However, there's got to be a…

2022 07 24

Creatine: Hail to the King

By: Cody Volk 0

Often called the king of supplements, creatine is one of the most widely used supplements in the athletic world. To some people the name conjures up images of overly pumped bodybuilders in a roid-rage, or regular people swelling up to hulk-like levels. Let's go beyond the myths and dive in…

2022 07 17

Fat: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

By: Cody Volk 0

Beginning in the 1940's, scientific studies saw a correlation between high-fat diets and high cholesterol. While correlation doesn't always equal causation, low-fat diets were promoted for patients at high risk for heart disease. This diet began to catch on among all Americans in the 1960's, and by the 1980's the…

2022 07 10

man in black crew neck shirt doing pull ups

Murph: The Workout to Remember

By: Cody Volk 0

When I was new to CrossFit, the regular workouts were more than enough to destroy me. While huffing and puffing through whatever the WOD was, people at the gym liked to say "if you think this is bad, you should try..." and then promoted all these WOD's with names. Not…

2022 07 03

VO2 to the Max!

By: Cody Volk 0

Sure, you can bench press the most weight, but have you thought about how much oxygen your body can use during exercise? As we breath in oxygen, our lungs absorb it and turn it into energy called adenosine triphosphate (ATP), which powers our cells and helps us release carbon dioxide.…

2022 06 28

The Great Olive Oil Caper

By: Cody Volk 0

Them: Olive oil is extremely healthy for you. Also them: Olive oil is extremely unhealthy for you. The answer? Both. Photo by Roberta Sorge on Unsplash That golden-emerald glass bottle on our kitchen counter is so easy to pour into a pan for cooking, on our veggies for eating, on our meat for…

2022 04 25

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