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"Singled Out" 10 Min AMRAP 15 Single Arm DB Front Squats 50/3510 Alt Single Arm DB Devils Press5/side Single Arm DB S2OH **no restrictions on squats Now on WODProof- Join our Community to submit...
Read MoreIf you plan on doing the 2021 CrossFit Open, we recommend first you define WHY you are doing the Open? For fun? Peer pressure? For the community aspect? To push your limits? To qualify for the Quar...
Read MoreStrength Metrics and CrossFit If there’s one topic that drives up quite a bit of conversation in the competitive Crossfit world it’s strength metrics. This discussion usually moves in the direction...
Read MoreSkill Progression: Handstands The art of balancing on your hands. When you stand up on your feet, you don’t realize that you are going through thousands of small balance adjustments. Your toes, fee...
Read MoreMYTH: In order to lose weight, I have to starve myself. TRUTH: Depriving your body makes it think you're experiencing a famine or food shortage. To adapt, it slows your metabolism so you burn less...
Read MoreJanuary Monthly Workout
Jan 25
Quetzal on a 15 min running clock Quetzal 21.1 For time: 15-12-9 Bar Muscle-up Squat clean 135/95 Time cap 9min + Quetzal 21.2 With remaining of time find max snatch complex 1 squat snatch - floor ...
Read MoreBarbell Cycling
Jan 13
While there are a myriad of movements within the sport of CrossFit, there are sub-categories that encompass collections of movements. The 3 overarching categories within CrossFit are: gymnastics, m...
Read MoreHow to train for the Open
Jan 13
First off, training for the Open should have started the first week of December; and for some, even further back. But, we are here now so let’s identify where we are so we can implement sound struc...
Read MorePush / Pull 21 Chest to bar + 9 Thruster 15 Chest to bar + 15 Thruster 9 Chest to bar + 21 Thruster Open Workout 12.3 AMRAP 18: 15 box jump step down 12 Push press 9 toe to bar ...
Read MoreThe last goal setting guide you’ll ever need* *One note to be made up front: My goal setting ideas will be slanted towards physics endeavors, most specifically competing in the sport of Crossfit. T...
Read MoreThe beauty in taking time to look back at the previous year and picking out 12 books that left an impact is identifying the various aims I was seeking in reading those books. Each one tells a diffe...
Read MoreThrowback For Time: 20 Unbroken Pull UpsRow 500m20 Unbroken Pull UpsRow 500m20 Unbroken Pull Ups *Pull ups must be unbroken Submit Score How it Works -Once a month, we will announce a workout on ...
Read MoreEvent Announcements Elite Division On a 60 minute running clock... Event 1 0:00-10:00 For Time: 8 Clean to OH - Power or Squat 26 T2B 6 Clean to OH - Power or Squat 26 T2B 4 Clean to OH - P...
Read MoreFor someone who takes their training seriously, the holiday season can be a time rife with obstacles and challenges to find yourself off rhythm for weeks on end. As in any challenge there is the op...
Read MoreOctober 2020 MONTHLY WORKOUT
Oct 14
THUMPER For Time: 1 Power Clean 245/16521 Bar Over Burpee3 Power Clean 225 / 145 18 Bar Over Burpee 5 Power Clean 205/125 15 Bar Over Burpee7 Power Clean 185 / 105 12 Bar Over Burpee9 Power Clean 1...
Read MoreEvery Sport has its preferences, be that body type, motor patterns, even mindset. For example if you walked into an NBA locker room you would see a group of men who are much taller than the average...
Read MoreARTEMIS For time, 1-10 For time, 1-101 DB Devil's Press (50/35)1 DB Squats1 HSPU2 DB Devil's Press (50/35)2 DB Squats2 HSPU3 DB Devil's Press (50/35)3 DB Squats3 HSPUand so on….. SUBMIT SCORES HOW...
Read MoreDistraction is the only thing that consoles us of our miseries yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries. In Part 1 of Journal Exercises, we explored fitness, competition, achievement and ho...
Read MoreThe Importance of Consults
Sep 02
A real coach isn’t someone who just puts out a great program, but someone who seeks to understand you in whole and support all facets of your day not just the sixty minutes in the gym. There a...
Read MoreAUGUST 2020 MONTHLY WORKOUT
Aug 25
SISYPHUS EVERY 4 MIN X 5 SETS: 1 Squat SnatchAMRAP Unbroken Chest to Bar (C2B) SUBMIT SCORES RULES Your score is the total of all made snatch attempts in pounds + total C2B completed. There will be...
Read MoreWhen More Isn’t More
Jul 30
In a lot of facets of life the more time, or reps, or practice you put into a particular endeavor there is a pretty linear increase in the results you would expect to receive. This positive feedbac...
Read MoreJULY 2020 MONTHLY WORKOUT
Jul 23
The Gambler 7 Rounds for Time (10:00 time cap) 7 Power Snatch, 95/65#7 Bar-Facing Burpees7 Thrusters, 95/65# Submit Score HOW IT WORKS: -Once a month, we will announce a workout on Thursday....
Read MoreJUNE 2020 MONTHLY WORKOUT
Jun 25
Today’s the day! We’re excited to announce that we’re going to pump up the fun in your fitness training! Our hope is that this will bring our community together and have more fun with your fitness ...
Read MoreColleen Fotsch is a multi-year CrossFit Games athlete having competed at the Games on both a Team and as an Individual. She was a collegiate swimmer for Cal and is currently studying for a masters ...
Read MoreThe inability to recognized how distracted we are is one of the greatest drivers of misery. Cultivating presence is one of the most productive ways to turn down the noise inside our heads. A pow...
Read MoreWhitney Reese came to us from her physical therapy facility in Austin, TX. I always love to see what our coach’s spaces look like, and this one didn’t disappoint! What are macros and micros - mac...
Read MoreHenry Toraño is very mindful of what he tells his clients, and when it comes to sleep he knows that people are in vastly different starting points in terms of how well they sleep. If there is one p...
Read MoreMizar Fuentes-Ortega not only has a number of clients who were forced to train from home, he as a former CrossFit Games Regionals competitor, also had to train from home. And, like so many, Mizar i...
Read MoreThe recent communication from Greg Glassman is unfortunate and Big Dawgs does not condone it in any way. We’ve never been affiliated with them as a business, but we have a big place in our hearts f...
Read MoreWhitney Reese competed at the CrossFit Games in Carson, California in 2010, but she was training at a high level prior to that when the Games were in Aromas, California. Fast forwarding to today, w...
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