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Globo gyms are only cheap if your time has no value. As a fun thought experiment, try to add up the time and money you’ve spent at a globo gym. Do your results match your investment? Are you as lean as you want to be?  Can you do a pull-up?  Do you still lose your [...]

I first encountered the term “skinny-fat” in Dan John’s book. The term describes someone who is thin but flabby and weak. Being something of a word nerd, I find the portmanteau of skinny-fat to be hilariously captivating. How can one word convey both approbation and contempt? Like “schadenfreude” (German for sad-happy) the phrase juxtaposes two opposing [...]

Every morning I post the WOD to the TwinTown CrossFit twitter stream. Every once in a while I run up against Twitter’s 120 character limit. For a long time I would get really annoyed whenever this happened. Now I take it as an indication that maybe the workout is poorly conceived and I stop to [...]

According to the Journal of Clinical Psychology 50% of American make a New Years resolution every year. Resolutions fail because a resolution is just a wish in Sunday clothes. Speaking as someone who lives a very active fantasy life (wherein I’m six feet tall and I have hair) I can tell you that wishing for [...]

Big ups to everyone who put it on the line for our Winter PR Challenge! Because of the number of people involved in the challenge we are fencing off Friday evenings for challenge participants. Here is the challenge training schedule: Friday 12/16 @ 7:30PM Saturday 12/17 @ 12:00PM Friday 12/23 @ 6:30PM Friday 12/30 @ [...]

In Lost Horizon, James Hilton introduced Shangri-la as a hidden Himalayan kingdom whose inhabitants remain youthful to the point of immortality. In the decades since Lost Horizon was published “Shangri-la” has come to symbolize any elusive prize that can inspire lifelong and obsessive quests. CrossFitters have a version of Shangri-la. I sometimes refer to it as the [...]

For a long time I had a goal to do 100 burpees under six minutes. Why six minutes? Because the fittest person I know did 100 burpees in six minutes. One day I really surprised myself by doing 100 burpees in 5 minutes and 40 some seconds. I felt really proud of myself – and [...]

Recently I got to jabber about CrossFit with the Baha’i media services. Enjoy!