Kindsey Branson found CrossFit in 2010 and has never turned back. She played volleyball and ran track for most of her school years and has completed 1 full-marathon. Kindsey’s competitive nature plus a love of a close community of fitness turned her on to CrossFit, she considers it her sport and looks forward to it everyday. Kindsey...

Stephanie says she has always had a heart for fitness. Growing up, she was involved in all types of sports and was very active, so it was a natural fit for her to major in Exercise Science in college.   She began learning all about exercise, nutrition, and bio-mechanics of the body and creating her own workouts for herself and friends. She...

Last week there was an article in the CrossFit Journal (If you don’t subscribe to this shame on you) written to CrossFit coaches about how to coach from scratch. Some of you reading this remember when you first walked into the gym and saw some of the “big dogs” tossing around big weights and doing very fast pullups back to back.  But...

Hope you are all doing great this week.  Somewhere along the path to success it’s inevitable that you will fall down.  I can’t count the number of times that I have. I also know that as CrossFit athletes we have all had to dig deep and find that little extra something to finish a big WOD. Please watch this video.  Next time you fall or...

This is a post I have been thinking about writing for some time.  I actually started training people in Pilates long before I became interested in CrossFit.  So when I see various pictures of CrossFit athletes around the country downplaying Pilates as a viable method of exercise I stand up and take notice.   My personal journey with Pilates came from...

“Buser” Matt Buser one of the original members of Crossroads Bootcamp and CrossFit on 18th severely injured his girly parts in a horrible ambush WOD written by John Benz. Out of complete humiliation he has transferred his job and residence to Cincinnati, OH.  He will be terribly missed. He leaves a strong legacy of some of the best CrossFit...

Hope you all are well.  Feeling a little sore today from throwing the Shot Put for the first time in 20 years.  With all the CrossFit training it still felt pretty good but I have a long time to go.  But that’s a story for another day. One of the biggest flaws we see in Olympic Lifting technique is foot placement in both the snatch and Clean and...

Hope you all had a great weekend and better yet looking for another super challenging CrossFit Games WOD this Thursday.  (stay tuned for specifics) It was awesome to be back in NW Arkansas last weekend for CrossFit Kettlebell Certification training and a little ghost hunting in Eureka Springs.  Since we didn’t find any real ghosts other than my...

Another week and another CrossFit Games open WOD to do at the gym tomorrow. After reading the WOD and thinking about a personal strategy I remembered hearing a statement tha using rubber bands for scaling pullups, muscle-ups and dips are the “Crack of CrossFit”. Meaning once you get on them they require some pretty heavy rehab to get off...

Hello CrossFit on 18th One of the reasons CrossFit burns more calories than any other exercise isn’t necessarily that you can burn more calories in an hour than say a cardio kickbox class (even though it can and does).  It’s because the nature of what is called High Intensity Functional Movements across broad Time and Modal domains raises your...