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By: Mike Giardina | July 26, 2022 Found in: 220727, Health The CrossFit nutrition recommendation for “eating for wellness” is to eat meat, vegetables, nuts and seeds, some fruit, little starch, and no sugar. We describe this as “eating for wellness” because those who change their lifestyle to eat this way can expect to see their health markers move from sickness to wellness on the sickness-wellness-fitness continuum. Even those who are already well can expect to see improvements as they clean up their diet a little by replacing processed foods with whole, natural foods. The most co ..read more

By CrossFit | October 6, 2022 Found in:221007,Health In this interview, Griffen Bradds meets with Mike Giardina to share the story of how CrossFit saved his life. Bradds is the owner of CrossFit Rebuild, a new affiliate in Encinitas, California. When working as a critical care nurse, Bradds noticed the patients he was treating had similar risk factors as himself. This was eye-opening, as he could see the dangerous path his health could take. Bradds was set on making some changes. He started working through different types of workout programs but couldn’t find the one that made sense. None of ..read more

By: CrossFit – October 11, 2021   Found in:211012,Essentials,Coaching   CrossFit’s definition of fitness is work capacity across broad time and modal domains. “What the heck does that mean?” asks Seminar Staff Head Trainer Jenn Hunter-Marshall during a lecture presented at a Level 1 Certificate Course at CrossFit South Philly in 2021. “Can you run? Can you punch? Can you jump? How far; how fast?” she continues. “And we can graphically represent that.” On the X axis, we have time; on the Y axis, power. Activities are plotted on the graph according to the power and time an ..read more

Burpees, Sprint, Burpees – Workout Demo By: CrossFit September 11, 2022 Found in:220912,Essentials Mike G and Mason McGuff take on today’s WOD while Griffen Bradds, RN, explains the physiology of what’s happening during the workout: Five 2-minute rounds of: 10 burpees 200-m sprint Max-rep burpees Rest 3 minutes between rounds. Post number of burpees completed after the sprint each round to comments. Compare to 180819. Scaling: Reduce the reps so the first set of burpees and the run take no more than 90 seconds. Each round should be an all-out sprint. Intermediate athletes can do th ..read more

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By: CrossFit, October 2, 2021 Found in:211003,Essentials,Coaching Twitter In Part 4 of this six-part series on CrossFit’s definition of fitness, Seminar Staff Head Trainer Jenn Hunter-Marshall breaks down CrossFit’s fourth model of fitness: the sickness-wellness-fitness continuum. “This continuum represents your health,” Hunter-Marshall says during a Level 1 Certificate Course presented at CrossFit South Philly in early 2021, “so that fitness is just a state of super health.”  We have observed that nearly every measurable value of health can be placed on a continuum that ranges from sic ..read more

By: CrossFit,  August 27, 2022   Found in:220828,Health Rodrigo Jasbick, M.D., a cardiologist and CF-MDL1 in Brazil, and Mike Giardina discuss the need to bridge the gap between fitness and healthcare. He describes what doctors do as “sick care,” essentially treating the symptoms of an already-established illness, and what takes place in the affiliate as “health care,” which is improving lifestyle to create a buffer against sickness. Dr. Jasbick describes the challenges he has faced and overcome while practicing medicine in his country. As a cardiologist, he cannot prescribe exerci ..read more

Article By: Shoutout SoCal August 30, 2022 We had the good fortune of connecting with Griffen Bradds and we’ve shared our conversation below. Hi Griffen, can you walk us through the thought-process of starting your business? CrossFit Rebuild was born out of inspiration. I discovered CrossFit in 2017 and it is still a huge part of my life today. With a background in nursing, I’ve seen the importance of functional fitness first hand, and understand how it improves health & wellness, our ability to move and enjoy life, prevent injury & illness, and overall improve Quality of Life. The Cr ..read more

By: CrossFit | September 28, 2021 Found in:210929,Essentials,Coaching In Part 3 of this six-part series on CrossFit’s definition of fitness, Seminar Staff Head Trainer Jenn Hunter-Marshall explains the Hopper model of fitness. The essence of this model is the view that fitness is about performing well at any and every physical task imaginable. Picture a hopper loaded with an infinite number of physical challenges, where no selective mechanism is operative, and being asked to perform feats drawn at random.  “He or she is fittest that statistically performs the best on these things,” Hunt ..read more