Author Archives: teddy

Every gym has one of these. His name is on all the leaderboards; he always has a top score in the workout; he’s a hard worker in the gym with tons of physical ability. If only he could clean up his act outside of the gym, he could be a star; he could hang with the [...]

You never forget your first pullup.

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who [...]

Everyone who does CrossFit has experienced this: you try to press a bar over your head; the bar reaches your nose and suddenly it feels as though a gigantic hand is pushing the bar back down onto you;  you strain and heave but it’s not going anywhere; finally you give up and the bar comes [...]