For regular folks like us, it is never going to come down to "Add 10 kilos to your bench press numbers and see your discus fly further" or any such thing. From the world of weights, we are looking for general physical preparation (GPP). We want to be able to do most things that life throws at us…
I went in to learn and getting a certification would've been a bonus. While it was still a huge hit to the ego when I realised I failed, I quickly realised I knew diddly-squat to have an ego in this and had amongst the best weekends I've ever had.…
Raj and I ran our first-ever class at The Quad on Sep 19, 2011. The 9 years since have been a period of personal growth, of figuring things out, of trying to stick to our guns and doing things our way, of making silly mistakes.…
One of my students, let's call them Neil, sent me their numbers (training log) for the day and was comparing it to something from a few weeks back, remarking that it had taken them the past few weeks "to get back to square one".…
If I could tell myself to be at a certain level while starting off CrossFit, here's what I would set. I think being able to do these means you are reasonably along with the fundamentals, and can do whatever you fancy on top of this.…
Think of any skill you have. Let's take driving - shift down a gear, while pressing the clutch and steering the vehicle while continuing the conversation you are having. If we have to think and communicate, it will take far too long. Instead, it is a pattern ingrained in us by practice.…
pain versus soreness…
Sometime in 2012, I heard about Original Strength from one of Coach Dan John's books. The word crawl immediately clicked in my head, and I was reading the book the next day. And it just made sense.I need things to click before I can do them - strength training…
Listen to your body is preached by me to all my students. We need to be aware of what our body is telling us.If we are generally the type to love going to the gym to train, and are finding ourselves lacking motivation - that's a signal. Your parasympathetic…
Think about how we learned to talk. We learned to make sounds. We learned the A-B-C. We learned words. We heard a lot of people say stuff. We made sentences. We made a lot of mistakes. And we learned to talk, eventually.It goes from simple to complex. We learned…