Beyond the Metcon

Staying on track and true to your goals during the holiday seasons and vacation can be tough. We talk about best practices we've used and helped other use to keep themselves accountable and to still meet those goals.

CrossFit can be a great tool to build fitness, but is it better to be used to make someone better at their sport, for the sport of CrossFit, or just health? How can it be used in all ways of life. Stay tuned to the end where we have a heated debate about gaining weight as a runner or cyclist.

We talk about who CrossFit for, people who already know how to workout or everyone? We also talk about doing CrossFit over a long period of you life. Is it sustainable?

On this week's episode, we talked about what recovery methods we use and what we've seen work the best throughout our time of coaching and doing CrossFit. What's most important to what works, but isn't as high on the list of musts. 

Being motivated is talked about so much in the fitness space. Is motivation all you need in order to be successful in achieving your fitness goals or is there something else there that helps?

We start this episode with answering a listener's question and then talk about what type of workout gear you should have and what's just nice to have. If you want to look up any of what we talked about, type what the gear is you're looking for with "crossfit" after.  #crossfit #fitness #workout #utecrossfit #workoutequipment #exercise

On this episode we talk about our experience with CrossFit and injuries. Are they related? What causes injuries in CrossFit and how to avoid them. 

Keeping track, or logging your results in some way to keep track of progress, how important is that? Will it make you better or be a negative reminder?

We had a technical malfunction at the beginning so don't mind the sound in the first 1:00. It fixes.    What's the best amount of days you should workout a week, how to avoid the dreaded "burnout" feeling, and how to build your weaknesses, whatever the weakness. Video version on Youtube.

On this episode we talk about good habits that can help improve your health  and performances immediately. We go into some detail about each topic and how to get started with introducing them into your everyday life.