Category Archives: WOD

Scaling Eva

Short workouts do not need much strategy. Warm up, give it your all and embrace the pain. Long ones are a different story. Anyone doing the first Murph for example has to decide on doing 100, 200, 300 pull-ups, pushups … Continue reading

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Is Skating Paleo?

Diane is really not my type. The heavy weights are all cool, but handstands are a bit too much… Benchmark month has its ups and downs from the euphoria of halving my Fran score one day to the realization that … Continue reading

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Cindy’s Butterflies

One way to improve technique is to do a lot of them. This came out loud and clear in today’s workout. Doing popular benchmark girl “Cindy” moved butterfly pullups from nice-to-have to necessary-for-survival. This may be the best way to … Continue reading

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Is CrossFit a Very Personal Journey?

Yesterday over 5,000 people visited my site and it made me think why anyone’s personal Crossfit journey would be interesting. We talk a lot about the community of CrossFit. I can certainly attest to this as anywhere I go to … Continue reading

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Benchmark Month

It sounded like a great idea 2 weeks ago when I dedicated September to benchmark girls and hero WODs… Remembering programming from the Level 1 and CFE certs probably saved me as the back to back days seem to punish … Continue reading

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