Dropping Into A Box And Etiquette This is definitely a gym owner problem, but most CrossFitters have at least been in a class where a drop-in comes in and says something along the lines of “I have my own program, can I go in the corner and do it?” There are so many variables […]
Positioning Over Depth At Verdant I’ve tried to keep the messages repetitive and unwavering. My primary message, “Positioning over Depth,” has been a combination of my ideology as well as a product of circumstances. The denotation is quite literal: make sure the positioning of a squat is what is valued over the depth of […]
Verdant Teen Strength and Conditioning We have recently started our first official Verdant Fitness Teen Strength and Conditioning Program. Whenever we start a new strength cycle or a new program, I usually dive head first into a bunch of reading and research. It’s always tough to synthesize all the different points of view and theories […]
What Should I do for Cardio? This is some great food for thought whether you’ve been doing CrossFit for years or if this is your first month. A few times a month someone will ask me what they should do for cardio, sometimes it’s people here in the gym and sometimes it’s people on […]
CrossFit Games – IMO If you go back and look at the the first definition of CrossFit, only 100 words of the final sentence of that paragraph deals specifically with movement. That is really interesting. As CrossFit has grown the movement side has really evolved and it has become professionalized at many levels. Without […]
I attended Kokoro camp October 25-27 2013 and I officially affiliated Verdant CrossFit early 2014. Becca Voigt was in my fire team at Kokoro along with Elizabeth Akinwale. Becca later opened her own gym not long after Verdant. I haven’t changed a word of what I wrote back in November, 2013 about Sealfit. I was […]
In the past we have had a ton of community events inside and outside of the gym. The events are awesome and they have all been special in their own way. For a long time we had two major events a month with a really high percentage turnout. A few months ago, I was thinking […]