CrossFit is a game of numbers. Bigger numbers for our weights for lifts, bigger numbers for rounds, and smaller numbers for those timed WODs. We are constantly trying to better ourselves, and score higher and higher with each rep. This is something engrained in us, it’s what makes us CrossFitters, the will to suffer to get better. However, it’s also engrained in us as human beings, to want immediate results.

What good is your lift if you risked injury to get it? What good are your rounds if you… Continue

The beauty of Crossfit can be repeatedly seen in the numerous times that a seasoned crossfitter will help out a “newb” by answering many of their comment section questions about wods and exercises (often questions that can be easily answered by checking the FAQ, but that can of worms is for another day). I believe this sense of community permeates the main site and filters its way into the multitude of affiliates that brandish the Crossfit coat of arms. I have to say I was always hesitant about… Continue

The first installment of the affiliate workout of the week (a.k.a. the W.O.W. Factor) had me “traveling” to Kopavogur, Iceland to tackle “Ingunn”. The next two workouts took me from Crossfit Sport and its Norse power, to Indianapolis, Indiana with its echoes of horsepower and then into the Great Plains of Pierre, South Dakota.

Crossfit Indianapolis’ randomly chosen workout happened to be entitled the “Walrus”, I am not sure of the reasoning behind the name but it makes me think that there is a… Continue