This is the feeling I’ve somehow come to associate with getting work done in the gym. It’s the pain of progress, and it’s a feeling that most CrossFit athletes, both amateur and competitive, are addicted to. The constantly-varied, highly-intense nature of the CrossFit WODs means it can hurt a million different ways on a million different days, but the psychological response seems to be the same. I feel like I’ve been to the brink of death, and that must mean I accomplished something.
Read MoreI peeled my 350lb self off the couch a year ago and decided to try and do something with myself. Though I’m not quite jacked and tan yet, here’s some things I learned along the way:
Read MoreSo you saw Brian Shaw, Eddie Hall, Zydrunas Savickas, and a bunch of other Eastern European guys (whose names you can't pronounce) deadlifting 1,000+ pounds of hummer tires, and now you want to be a total bad-ass just like them. Massenomics can help you on this divine quest of mimicking these men that take shits larger than most of us.
Read MoreHow many of you reading this right now plan detraining periods in your training regimen? I would imagine there is a small, but probably not real high percentage. How many of you that do plan detraining periods, do for a ten day period or more? I know what you are thinking, ten days or more off from training? Why don’t I just shave my beard, stop peeing in the shower, and become a Birkenstock- wearing vegan?
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"Is this some kind of sick joke? I can’t wear shorts because my legs look like upside down bowling pins. Even the color is the same."
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