All The Pieces of the Puzzle

I saw the above picture over at Coach Rut’s blog and it made me smile The number of people who think that exercise will solve all their problems is astounding.  Sadly, they are mistaken. Exercise is just one piece of the puzzle – if you treat your body like shit the rest of the time then [...]

Beyond the Whiteboard

We’re now registered on Beyond the Whiteboard. This is a really cool site where you can log your CrossFit workout results. We’re set up as a gym on the site which means that if you’re a member, you can record your results for our workouts and then compare yourself against the rest of the gym [...]

Cups and Spoons – Know What You’re Eating!!

Whether you like it or not, the most efficient and effective way to get your nutrition on track is to weigh and measure what you’re putting in your mouth. First you need to get set up with a FitDay account.  This is an awesome FREE nutrition and exercise log that allows you to input what [...]

How to Find and Fix the Weaknesses in Your Fitness Armour

Fitness is about progress. You don’t get fitter if you don’t push yourself to a higher level. The beauty of CrossFit is that it offers numerous ways to measure your current ability level across a range of skills and provides benchmark information so that you know how you measure up to everyone else. A while [...]

3 Rules of Good Basic Nutrition

Photo by la tartine gourmande I’m consistently told by people that they eat healthy. Their bodyfat % usually tells me otherwise. So what are my top 3 rules for getting your nutritional ass into gear? Let’s take a look… 1. Eat natural If you couldn’t have dug it up, cut it down or caught it [...]

10 Reasons Why Our Program Works

In no particular order… The body is designed to work as a single unit. If your program consists of barbell curls, side raises, crunches and a few reps on a leg-press machine, then you are not giving the body what it needs to provoke progress. We center our program around whole body exercises and movements [...]

4 principles of Balanced Nutrition

I’ve spoken to a number of people recently who are on “diets”. Now, “diet” is a word I hate to use – it reeks of short-termism. These people are eating rations of fruit, cereals or bread for breakfast and lunch and then eating a typical meal in the evening. What they are in effect doing [...]