The warm up matters. In a typical class, you’ll see a few elements. You’ll see a board brief, a warm up, a strength/skill work, and some conditioning work. We all like skill/strength work. It’s fun! It’s exciting! We love pulling heavy weights, squatting, pressing, developing gymnastics skills… all the good
A Story about hazing and my most hated word. Note: This was originally written in March of 2017. Slight edits have been made. I knew ever since I started the blog that I wanted to write this one… but every time I felt like writing it, I would get
When Should I Modify? The best part about CrossFit? CrossFit is scalable for any and all ability levels. It doesn’t matter if you have chronic disease, you’re out of shape, you’re young, old, fast, slow… we can take today’s workout and scale it to your current level. But how do
**Pictured: How I look on Day 1 at 225 pounds** Coach Gets A Coach – Day 1 It’s time for me to get a coach and practice what I preach to my clients on a daily basis. For a long time now, I’ve simply been going through the motions as
**Pictured – Me hiking across the plateau in the Grand Canyon… get it?** Tips On Plateaus Plateaus are inevitable. You’ll start out training, see great progress quickly, and then those results will slowly steady out. After a while, you might even feel like you’re not making any progress at all.
My Music Education Degree Was The Best Degree I’m a fitness professional with a music degree. I look like a jock, but I can play the hell out of the trumpet. I’ll throw down with you on a metcon, and then tell you why Gustav Mahler was such an influential composer
So what’s GPP anyway? We get a lot of questions about what kind of workouts we do here at Yellow Rose. Most of the time I’ll respond with, “Well, we are a GPP centered training style. It’s constantly varied, functional movements, at high intensity. This means that our workouts change
A Letter To New CrossFitters and Exercisers HI! Thank you so much for clicking on this blog. I hope the title caught your eye because you’re either a new CrossFitter, or you’ve just recently picked up exercising. Let me give you some background on me first. My name is Clark.
Interview with Mike Doehla of Stronger U I’VE GOT A GUEST ON THE BLOG!! The guest is Mike Doehla. He’s the man in charge at Stronger U Fitness and Performance. The specialty of Stronger U is diet and nutrition for clients of all ages and abilities levels from around the
5 At Home Workouts You Can Do This Week Here are 5 workouts you can do right from your living room this week! *Disclaimer – You should always get clearance from a medical professional before doing any sort of strenuous activity* WORKOUT 1 Set a clock for 10 minutes and
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