Today it storms, tomorrow we CrossFit.

Prepare for the mud.

Consider yourself warned

I took a day off to recover, and am back in full swing again. Call to set up your personal training appointments.

On a side note, my computer has been taken out by a virus... I will be fixing it later this week. What this means to all my CrossFitters is the Schedule tab will not be updated until these issues are fixed. I will update you guys when this is fixed.

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Receiving my Commando Krav Maga Instructor Level 2 Certificate

So you think your a top level athlete?

Try your hand at competing with fire-breathers from across the nation...

The CrossFit Games 2008
Saturday, July 05, 2008 - Sunday, July 06, 2008

Aromas , CA 92115

In this months issue(May 08) of Muscle and Fitness, CrossFit will be featured in a 15 page spread. Arguably this is the most true-to-life media representation of CrossFit ever. I am excited to read it.

Here is the teaser video for the article.

I am back in Memphis.

The CrossFit Level 2 seminar was fantastic. I learned alot about myself, and also ways I can improve my program.

Expect a few changes to the program... Among them, a focus on personal training. My current programming is based on a small group dynamic. Effective immediately I am doing away with that aspect and tuning the program to be more personalized.

Please give me feedback on the new system and let me know if you like it.

There will be no training this week due to CF Level 2 Certification.

You may have noticed that the posted workouts at CrossFit Alpha have gotten a bit more difficult. This is intentional and is part of the progressive approach we are taking towards our fitness training.



These new workouts are geared towards people with moderate functional fitness... a level that all people should strive to obtain, if for no other reason, to live a healthy and productive life.

If you think our workouts are too difficult, you are unhealthy and you need to do something about it. This may seem harsh, but it is the reality of the situation. Humans have evolved into uber-sedentary creatures with a gluttonous appetite. As a side effect of this, we have record obesity rates and a population who cannot even manage to move their own bodyweight around.

We want to help reverse this trend, hence the introduction of the bodyweight workouts into the CrossFit Alpha system.

Do them, post your times, enjoy! Lets get fit Memphis!

Chris Drewry
CrossFit Alpha - Lakeland/Memphis

I am integrating a new workout tracking system heavily into the website. It will allow you to track all of your progress through the CrossFit Alpha program. Sign up at http://www.logsitall.com. Fill out your profile and be sure to edit your profile to include your affiliation which is "CFAlpha".

This system will allow me to keep track of all of your workouts, including the custom bodyweight workouts that are posted 3x weekly.

Take a while to create an account, and get familiar with the system. This will be how we track our workouts from here on out.

The best thing about this is a way for me to post a log of all the clients dynamically that updates itself seamlessly, you can scroll down to the "Tabata Squats" workout lower on the page to see how many people have added their score into that database.

Continued........

We have completely retooled the website and infused it heavily with dynamic content, putting it more in line with what we want it to accomplish. As we grow, so does the website and the content that we publish and produce.

Site construction,coding, and design was done by Otto from otto lejeune design consulting

Let us know what you think of the new design!

In Light of New Evidence
By Jon Gilson
CrossFit Boston/Again Faster



I have never run a 10k. The idea of six miles of pounding pavement appeals to me about as much as a waist-down hot waxing.

Until October, it was easy enough to avoid. No one asked me to run 10ks, and I never volunteered. Then something changed. In small Lucida Grande type, set above a picture of Annie Sakamoto, CrossFit was telling me to crank out a middle-distance run. Engaged in a heated battle for a dress-less Toronto Certification Seminar, I bristled at the thought. A 5k earlier in the month had left me with enough lateral knee pain to cripple a horse, and I had no desire to repeat the experience.

Even more, everything I knew about physiological effects of distance running pointed to a scratch. Habitual runners, reflected in my mind by the recreational marathoner, suffer from a general lack strength and power that runs contrary to every athletic goal I have. The mental image of emaciated limbs slogging through 8-minute miles put me smack in the middle of the training floor, barbells set for a go at "Linda".

Check out the entire article at Again Faster and be sure to leave Jon your feedback!