How to understand your CrossFit friends on Facebook
If you got some fit buddies on Facebook, especially CrossFitters, then some of their fb lingo might go straight past you, we’re here to help with that through the following translation guide.
If you got some fit buddies on Facebook, especially CrossFitters, then some of their fb lingo might go straight past you, we’re here to help with that through the following translation guide.
If you’ve been in the personal training game for a while you will have heard all of these excuses before, over and over, by now you’re able to spot them a mile away. For those that can’t, below is a translation chart.
When you can only make it to the yoga session but you’re on a squat program When you can only make it to the yoga session but you're on a squat program…. ? Posted by Tom Morrison on Saturday, 22 April 2017
Imagine dropping a barbell on your foot with no shoes on, that’s going to hurt like a mofo! Even worse, imagine dropping a heavy rusty kettlebell on your bare foot, that thang is probably going to cut your foot right in half. I simply can’t understand people that wear no shoes in the gym, I …
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Buy Swinging heavy bells and drinking beer! True story! I participated in the #28daykettlebellswingchallenge and went 20 days without alcohol, felt it was time for a few brewskies, so I popped 1 for every 300 kettlebell swings, think I did 1,501 that day, had a great time, posted on Facebook, was well received, so I …
Of course, this is just a bit of fun with a bit of truth. I personally train without shoes whenever I can and if I train in a gym where shoes are required, I wear Vibrams or Xero shoes. As long as the shoes are flat, not runners, and have a good-sized toebox, it’s all …
You see it every now and again in online communities, a post of hands completely ripped after doing a large number of cleans or snatches. I’ll be honest, I also have boasted about it, because it’s kind of like “Look at me, I did not give up, I completed what I set out to do!”. But now, I won’t go there again, unless I was in an important kettlebell competition that I trained up for.