13 Lessons I Learnt From the 2014 CrossFit Open.

A while ago I wrote a post about what I love (and don't love) about CrossFit, and I took some serious heat for it. However, despite some of my reservations, I dived into the CrossFit world and recently competed in the 2014 "Open". The Open is a global competition where everyone in the world is invited to compete …

3 Reasons Why I Love (And Don’t Love) CrossFit

Firstly, I have only been doing CrossFit for the past five months, so I certainly don’t pretend to know it all, or even to have a valid opinion. These thoughts are just my own personal observations as a fitness-fanatic, ex-professional gymnast, and a physiotherapist. So here are three things I love (and don’t love) about …

Why CrossFit and Kettlebells Can’t Be Friends (and What That Has To Do with God)

As a physiotherapist and ex-professional gymnast, I'm a huge fan of functional fitness training. Anything that challenges the entire body as a unit and uses natural movements to produce real results. That's why I love Kettlebells, and why I am following the rise of CrossFit with great interest. What I find unfortunate however is the way these …

World Class Fitness in 100 Words

This is taken from the Crossfit guys, but it makes perfect sense, especially for me, coming from a gymnastics background... Eat meat and vegetables, nuts and seeds, some fruit, little starch and no sugar. Keep intake to levels that will support exercise but not body fat. Practice and train major lifts: deadlift, clean, squat, presses, Clean-&-Jerk, and snatch. …

4 More Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Do Kettlebells

Last year I wrote an article entitled 4 Reasons Why You Shouldn't Do Kettlebells that received a lot of attention. At the time, I had only been swinging the bells for a month or so and was very much a kettlebell-rookie. But ten months later, and a couple thousand "snatches","lunges","get-ups" and "oh-my-goodness-these-are-hard-ups" under my belt, …