CrossFit North Industry

There are gyms, workouts, at home training programs, fitness studios, online nutrition diets. Programs for everything and anything fitness related. It’s everywhere all the time at the click of a mouse, on TV, or your neighbors garage gym. With all this information available, it begs the question, why isn’t the whole world healthy? I mean, […]

When it comes to your body, what are the three most important things that indicate it’s working well and able to do what you want it to do? If you were going to train, and not just workout to burn calories, what would you want that training to improve? What would be the important things

Heads up! There are only three kinds of people in the world (in our eyes). Don’t believe us? Read on to see if you agree!  A. People who don’t exercise. All good with us. Of course, we believe everyone should exercise and take care of their body, but we fully support an individual’s right to

Many fitness endeavors prioritize performance improvements. Weightlifting, Powerlifting, CrossFit, are a few that do this. There is a competitive side where you can actually go and compete in that sport. Being as strong or fast as possible is the goal. These programs create fitness no doubt, but prioritizing fitness gains and performance has a cost.

Smaller community and performance-based gyms, with coaches helping, teaching, guiding you, are newer to the fitness world, and many people don’t know how to navigate this new environment. The fitness industry of 10 years ago was mostly big gyms, lots of equipment, and group fitness classes where the instructor did the workout with you. Now

The Problem with 6-Week Challenges, 90-Day Transformations, and Whatever Other BS the Fitness Industry is Pedaling These Days. You see them everywhere, don’t you? Fitness businesses looking for “30 Committed Males, Ready to Accept the Challenge” or “We Only Have Room for 20 Serious Ladies Ready to Make a Change” and “Join our 90 TRANSFORMATION

I get it. Yesterday you worked out really hard, or for the first time in a while, and those muscles are just soooooo sore. It hurts to get off the couch! But don’t do it. Don’t reach for that little bottle of relief. Drugs like Ibuprofen (Advil, Motrin, Nuprin) may help with the pain in

As you probably guessed if you follow me at all, I’m going to be a contrarian on this. The answer to what the best diet is… None of them. Because all these canned diets do the same thing: assume that there is a one size fits all solution to nutrition. There is not. Nutritional needs

Pretty much your entire life as it is today … runs on autopilot. When you wake up, what you eat, when you shower, what you say to your loved ones, how you think. It’s all been built from previous behaviors, lived on previous days. It’s the track of a train that you construct slowly over time. And

In a previous article I covered the importance of updating our thinking. That the world is always changing—imperceptibly at times—and if we don’t update our thinking, we will not be able to make accurate decisions on how to best live our lives. I used the analogy of there being a recall on your new car