A Ton of Inspiration
Get your head right, get your body right, get your life right.
A Wealth of Insight
Centered in movement, often grounded in humor, and always intelligent, these pieces are timeless bites of wisdom. Start anywhere. Or choose a category (below) and dive into it!
The Rules of One
There is only one rep. The one you're doing right now.
Slipping
You won't recognize the moment that you start to slide backwards.
The Bar Tells The Truth
Here's the funny thing: It tells the truth when you walk away too. How you leave a failed lift tells more about you than you imagine.
Kindness and Stuff
But Elite Fitness is what attracts us and drives us. Compassion is what keeps us. Love is what makes us come back to the Painatorium.
Burning Cars
Do we complain too much as a community? Do we posture too much about the WOD, about our pain, about our efforts? Do we give our exercise far more importance than it deserves?
Only Some Things Matter
What do I care about? Your heart and your mind, in the gym and outside of it.
The CrossFit Watertown Mindset
CrossFit: The New Truth Serum
What I Know
Stop complaining and start doing. Life is short. Very short. Grab it and run like the wind while you're still here.
Life Jackets
Each of us must find our strength and use it. To help ourselves, to help our families, to help others.
This Is How We Change Things
This is how we change things.A group of people in a parking lot on a Sunday morning.
Milestones and Change
For every time that you feel sorry for yourself during a WOD ("It's so hard") or during a lift ("I just can't get it right!") remember that someone out there is facing a bigger obstacle, a higher hurdle, harder times. And they're carrying on. So, if you're complaining, just stop.
The CrossFit Games: Beyond Words
It’s a community that comes together to perform and witness feats of strength and stamina. A crowd that recognizes heart more than standings, and that victory must be earned or it is worthless. Cheaters will not be tolerated. Character and honor still matter here.
CrossFit Is The Egg
So many options. So many outcomes. So much depends on choices made and the skill level of the chef. But the fact of the matter is the same in CrossFit as it is in so much of life -- skill matters. Immensely.
Seek Happy Nights to Happy Days
CrossFit builds stronger women, stronger mothers, stronger lovers, stronger daughters, stronger wives, stronger friends. And that's a good thing. No, that's a great thing, for everyone.
A Month Off The Couch
Sometimes all it takes is a month off the couch. Then one month turns into two months. And then two months turn into two years. And your life becomes better, for you and everyone in it. Just ask Barry and Ray.
This CrossFit World of Ours
It's not enough here to do good enough. You have to find the place where there is no more in you, where you've fallen over the edge, where only your soul holds you up, where your muscles and your lungs have truly reached their limits. And then you come back to do it all again the next day.
Is My World is Different Than Yours?
In CrossFit, there is no sense that we will never be as good as we once were. There is only the sense that we are not even close to how good we can become.
Inside the CrossFit Coach's Mind
I'm not here to hold your hand or stroke your ego or lie to you or tell you that you look pretty.