ESSENTIALS

CrossFit Seminar Staff member Rob Lawson provides tips for performing CrossFit WOD 200920, Awful Annie. CrossFit Games athletes will complete this event on Saturday between 12:00 p.m. and 3 p.m. local time as the seventh event of the 2020 Reebok CrossFit Games.

CrossFit Seminar Staff member Denise Thomas provides tips for performing CrossFit WOD 200919, Nasty Nancy. CrossFit Games athletes will complete this event on Saturday between 9:00 a.m. and 12 p.m. local time as the fifth event of the 2020 Reebok CrossFit Games.

CrossFit Seminar Staff member Austin Malleolo provides tips for performing CrossFit WOD 200918, Damn Diane. CrossFit Games athletes will complete this event on Friday between 3:00 p.m. and 6 p.m. local time as the third event of the 2020 Reebok CrossFit Games.

CrossFit Seminar Staff member Spencer Hendel provides tips for performing CrossFit WOD 200917, Friendly Fran. CrossFit Games athletes will complete this event on Friday between 9:00 a.m. and 12 p.m. local time.

CrossFit Seminar Staff member Austin Malleolo provides tips for performing the second part of CrossFit WOD 200916, a 1,000 meter row. CrossFit Games athletes will complete this event in block two of the 2020 Reebok CrossFit Games, between 3:00 p.m. and 6 p.m. local time.

CrossFit Seminar Staff member Spencer Hendel provides tips for performing CrossFit WOD 200916, a 1-rep-max front squat. CrossFit Games athletes will complete this event in block one of the 2020 Reebok CrossFit Games, between 9:00 a.m. and 12 p.m. local time.

At the urging of a neighbor, Evans visited Reebok CrossFit 365 in Skewen, South Wales, at the age of 92. Since then, he’s come into the box every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. “I think when people get over a certain age, they think, ‘Oh, I shouldn’t really do that because I’m too old.’ But you’re never too old, and it’s never too late to start.”

When we teach about the heart, we differentiate between the structures and functions of its right and left sides. The major functional difference is that the right side of the heart delivers blood to the lungs and the left side delivers blood to the rest of the body. The right side’s purpose is pulmonary circulation, and the left side is responsible for systemic circulation.

Brittany Hoover was 8 years old when her dad noticed her back “didn’t look normal.” After undergoing surgery for sever scoliosis, Hoover was told she would never be able to play contact sports, do gymnastics, or perform any repetitive movements ever again. Now a CrossFit trainer and yoga instructor, Hoover is in less pain than ever, and she says she hopes to use CrossFit “to change people’s lives. … CrossFit changed my life.”

Michele Mootz (CF-L4) coaches a Level 1 participant through the wall squat and explains why the movement is a good coaching tool for athletes in need of squat therapy.

Coronary circulation includes important arteries and veins that perfuse the heart. The blood inside the atria and ventricles does not directly support the heart muscle; the heart has to deliver and drain blood as it does for any other muscle.

Overweight for most of her life, Angie Virden used food to cope with stress as an adult. Virden reached a turning point when she realized she was unable to keep up with her young son when he wanted to play. She called CrossFit Double Barrel in San Marcos, California, and made a commitment to change her life and improve her health.

In the duration of a warm-up, there are uncountable opportunities to weed out bad mechanics. Pulling with the arms, not finishing hip extension, failing to shrug, pulling too high, lifting the heels in the first pull, curling the ball, losing back extension, looking down, catching high then squatting, slow dropping under, slow elbows — all the faults are there.

Functional movements are optimal for developing human bodies to their highest potential. By virtue of recruiting as much muscle as possible, these movements uniquely equip a person to perform more work in less time. Calorie burn is a measure of work, so it can be said that functional movements burn calories at a faster rate than non-functional movements.

Strength runs in Bethany Robinson’s family. Unfortunately, so does a struggle with body image. After being diagnosed with body dysmorphia and bipolar disorder, Robinson discovered lifestyle changes could help her cope. And when she found CrossFit, she also found her confidence.

A common fault in the air squat is the knee initiating before the hips descend back and down.

Blood vessels are adaptable to stress. If there is hypoxic stress (low oxygen content present) that results in tissue hypoxemia (low oxygen in the tissue), a cascade of local hormonal and anabolic events occurs that produces new capillaries and new arterioles. This process is called angiogenesis and is considered to be an endurance-friendly anatomical adaptation, improving the body’s capacity to deliver oxygen to working skeletal muscle.