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Steal this vid: “California Strength Motivation”

Apr 27, 2012 No Comments

If the video above doesn’t make you want to tear the heads of stuffed animals, while eating meat for dinner and bacon for desert, then your dead, or at least not interested in being powerfully awesome. The video above is just once piece California Strength left us with. It’s not so much education as motivation. [...]

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American Beauty and that silly bag

Apr 26, 2012 7 Comments

Remember that weird ass movie American Beauty, the one with Kevin Spacey and the freaky dealer kid next door? The movie that won awards for it’s clever depiction of a mid-life crises and statutory rape. Remember that silly ass bag in the wind? The first time I saw that flick, I hated that damn bag [...]

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Focus fight and forge ahead with Cindy: “Seven sins”

Apr 25, 2012 4 Comments

CrossFit may be the coolest community around, but it’s still not perfect, as Cindy points out below even CrossFitter’s sin. Maybe it’s our ability to recognize our mistakes that makes us so cool, so different. The following is authored by: Cindy Young No matter what you believe or where you draw your faith from, the [...]

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The Zombies are already here

Apr 24, 2012 7 Comments

Movies about the end of the world are undeniably gripping and intoxicating, we can’t turn away. Their enormous take at the box office makes it look like humans are studying Armageddon in theaters. It’s like having life’s screen play in our hands and jumping to the last scene to see what happens. To bad the [...]

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The next level

Apr 23, 2012 12 Comments

This site is crowded with quality content to say the least. We make it a point to leave no stone unturned when it comes to CrossFit, food, life, and all that goes with it. The post below was submitted by house trainer Mindy Coby and is just that kind of quality we love. However, the [...]

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Give it a name

Apr 22, 2012 15 Comments

Americans are habitual over-simplifiers and we only get worse the longer we exist. Since we can’t sit still for three seconds we need words and names that allow us a life of ADD. The English language is exact, and to the point simply because we don’t have time to jank around with multiple meanings and [...]

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Never take your body for granted

Apr 21, 2012 2 Comments

Every Saturday we five finger discount a post. This Saturday we removed the below from a blog with the tag line. “The art of living fiercely”. The following is authored by: Kristi Lyn Miller I admit that fitness and exercise may seem like a bit of an obsession for me. From competitive rock climbing to [...]

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Steal this Vid: “Trainer profile-Kara M”

Apr 20, 2012 1 Comment

Last weeks trainer profile featured a long time CrossFit trainer/athlete. This week we focus on a long time CrossFitter, but relatively new trainer. Experience can be limitless when it comes to defining a good trainer. However, as I have noticed even more so recently, experience can be exactly what embitters, or diminishes ability. In Kara’s [...]

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Bare minimum

Apr 19, 2012 11 Comments

Two emails hit my in-box the very same day asking two different questions. Oddly enough, both questions had the same answer, well, response is more appropriate. Who’s to say I answered anything but the person asking the question, maybe I just made it worse. The first question; “I just wanted to drop you a line [...]

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Hoops

Apr 18, 2012 10 Comments

The mind is tricky magic that makes it’s host jump thorough hoops. Hoops that are not really there, hoops that we pray others see us conquer when in reality, no one was even looking. When we are kids we are rewarded for doing what is right defined by those older than us, those more experienced [...]

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