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5 Questions to Improve Your WOD Performance
When you arrive at the box and check the whiteboard, what's the first thing you do? Do you stand around chatting, or do you take some time to get ready for the WOD? Preparing yourself, both mentally and physically, is essential if you want to improve your performance and make those all important gainz. Here are five questions to ask yourself before any WOD:
Four Ways to Improve Your Heart Health
Our friends at 2XU recently launched their #HeartNotHype campaign to celebrate our body's engine, the heart. The heart drives all aspects of performance, from aerobic capacity to recovery. It's our lifeline, but we rarely take time to sit back and appreciate its importance.
Train Outdoors to Make the Most of Spring
The sun has finally made an appearance, and the temperature's gradually sneaking up, so it's time to make the most of spring and get outside! The weather at this time of year can be frustrating, especially if you work during the day. Maximise your time in the sunshine by substituting your time in the gym for an outdoor training session. Here are a few ideas to get you started:
New Product Review: PurePharma PR3
Here at Kitbox, we're dedicated to providing the latest and most innovative products to help you reach the top of your fitness game. PurePharma have a reputation for producing health and fitness supplements of the highest quality, so we were excited to find out they were releasing a brand new product. Here's everything you need to know about PurePharma's PR3.
6 Things We Learned From the 2015 CrossFit Games Open
With the 2015 CrossFit Games Open done and dusted, it’s time for us all to reflect upon the achievements, challenges and weaknesses. Although our personal experiences will be very different to the next person’s, here are six things we can all take away from this year’s event:
5 Ways to Improve Your Squat
The squat is a powerful exercise, whatever your fitness goals. When done right, they can help you get stronger, leaner, faster and more powerful. If you want to improve your squat, but aren’t sure where to begin, here are five tips to get you started.
15.5 | Quad Burn
15.5…… After 5 weeks of ups and downs, here we are with the final open workout of 2015. Firstly it was great to see friend of Kitbox Samantha Briggs show everyone she is still, in our opinion, the best athlete in the world live in Vegas! Awesome work Sam. Now we look ahead to see how Joe, Josh, Darren, Chloe, and Pippa are going to tackle the WOD.
15.4 | The CrossFit Open goes upside down
15.4…… We see handstand press ups enter the CrossFit Games Open for the first time – with the scaled division now an option we have definitely seen the WODs include heavier weights and more complex gymnastic movements from the beginning.
15.3 | muscle ups
15.3…… a genius bit of programming from Dave Castro – it will be great to see lots of people getting their first muscle up during this WOD.
Welsh National Weightlifting Championships - it all comes down to 6 lifts
This week running up to the Welsh Championships has been really enjoyable.
It's the first time I have ever tapered into a competition and I am really feeling sharp. It has allowed me to focus on speed under the bar, hitting lifts consistently, and building confidence in the run up to the weekend.
15.2 | You gotta love a redo
This week we are looking at 15.2, a couplet of overhead squats and chest to bar pullups, that gets longer and harder the more rounds you complete within 3 minute cut-offs with. We are also joined this week by veteran competitor Darren Freeman, and Josh Completes the WOD at CrossFit Soul in Miami with Sam Briggs.
15.1 | Here we go.......
Here is what the Kitbox Athlete’s think of 15.1 and 15.1a
