Category Archives: Programming

Doubling Up

Whether it is for us mere mortals or for Bailey and Froning, a great way to pull off the new triple WOD scheme is to start early morning with endurance and push the strength and MetCon later in the day. … Continue reading

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Next Year’s Race is On

After experimenting with various loads it is time to put it to work. It is October and time to start training seriously for next year’s competitions. Now that CrossFit moved beyond the initial resistance against periodization, I put all my … Continue reading

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How to Recover

In endurance sports recovery was often designed to prevent not only overtraining but overuse injuries as well. In CrossFit, overuse is rare, unless someone goes for a 100 muscle ups… Keeping intensity high does need proper recovery though. In endurance … Continue reading

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What I learned from a month of benchmarks

I learned a lot by doing my own programming for a month and integrating as many benchmark workouts as possible in the process. Since CrossFit is all about intensity, nothing brings more of that than benchmarks where every second and … Continue reading

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