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Body Mass Index, or BMI, is an almost two hundred year old concept that roughly establishes a ratio between a person’s height and body weight. Historically considered an important health marker, current research raises questions about the efficacy of BMI as a health marker- most famously when pro boxing superstar Evander Holyfield was found to be…
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*Photo via Rogue Fitness from the 2015 CrossFit Games Triangle Couplet Singlets, couplets, triplets, chippers, AMRAPs and on and on. These are just some of the classic formats of workouts common in the CrossFit community. A “singlet” refers to just a single movement the entire workout. Like the classic CrossFit Girls workout “Grace”: 30 Clean…
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Photos from Rogue Fitness & The CrossFit Games. CrossFit is “constantly varied functional movements performed at relatively high intensity” with the goal of developing “increased work capacity across broad time and modal domains.” These functional movements that we perform day-after-day all fall under one of three categories: Monostructural, Gymnastics, and Weightlifting.
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Dave Castro (@thedavecastro) and Jason Sturm (@barbelljason) at Heroes 4 Horton, Saint Simons Island, Georgia. Since it’s early days, CrossFit has been honoring service men who have given their lives in service of their country and communities. From time to time, we will see a new Hero WOD released on CrossFit.com. These WODs have a…
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This is part of a series on The CrossFit Games 2016 Open Workouts. For more, checkout: 16.2 Final Analysis, and 16.1 Final Analysis. In a throwback to the first issue of the CrossFit Journal “Garage Gym“, the Open 16.2 workout announcement was held in a garage gym in North Carolina. This workout combines Toes-to-Bar, Double…
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Tonight is the Live Announcement of event 16.2 of The CrossFit Games Open. BTWB athlete Dan Bailey (@dan_bailey9) and Björgvin K. Guðmundsson (@bk_gudmundsson) will be throwing down in a local Garage Gym with whatever madness Dave Castro has concocted. To anyone new to the Games scene, you should know that Dan is not.
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This is part of a series on The CrossFit Games 2016 Open Workouts. For more, checkout: 16.2 Final Analysis, and 16.1 Final Analysis. It’s only Friday night, but there have already been a few thousand BTWB users who have posted their 16.1 scores (thanks everyone!). Dave Castro has given us a brutal workout to kick…
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“To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.” –Winston Churchill It’s the end of 2015, and as another calendar year comes to a close, so does another year of fitness. Needless to say, the #BTWB community has been busy putting in work! With a lot of posts comes a lot of…