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When you want something bad enough you will find a way to get it done. It’s the law of attraction! You don’t necessarily need to know how you are going to do it; just know that you are going to do it and you will eventually figure out the “how” later. Think of driving in [...]

Ginny Erwin MS, RDN, CSSD, CPT is a nutrition counselor and fitness trainer we are bringing in on April 13th at 1pm. This will be a prelude to our Paleo challenge starting on April 15th, when the Hydrostatic Body Fat Testing truck will be at our facility so we can all get a baseline. She [...]

As important as the process of making time each today to workout, and thereby develop a habit, is the necessity to develop proper muscle memory in your exercise techniques. Muscles memory is simply to set pathway of impulses that travel from the brain to the muscles. After repeated exposure to any movement, this pathway becomes [...]

Let’s address a few issues that often arise this early in the process. You might have fallen victim to the belief that you need to workout for hours on end, day in and day out, to achieve any sort of physical fitness. This is simply not the case. The human body was not designed to [...]

Greeting PWA Members.   1.   The 2013 National Junior Championships in Foster City, (February 16-17) were a huge success! 170 Junior Lifters competed with 6 PWA Lifters winning Medals: Ian Wilson – Gold; D’Angelo Osorio, Hailee Lollar & Melvin Peete – Silver; Cathy Cai & Olivia Stimpel – Bronze. Also, Ian Wilson Clean & Jerked [...]

Warm-up well.  You should be slightly sweaty before you hit the 3, 2, 1 GO! Kelly Starrett will be putting out a video on mobilizing up corners so be sure to tune into www.MobilityWOD.com Carl Paoli will be talking about burpee efficiency and warm-up prep so tune into “http://gymnasticswod.com/content/crossfit-games-breakdown-131″ for that video.  He also has [...]

This Saturday March 9, 2013 resident athlete at the US Olympic Training Center 1992-1995 and 2x University Champ and record holder, 3x junior National Champ 3x Junior World Team Member, highest placing: 9th Junior American Record 163kg (358lb) snatch and 190kg (419lb) clean and jerk at super-heavyweight USA Weightlifting National Referee Jasha Faye is coming [...]

This Saturday March 2, 2013 resident athlete at the US Olympic Training Center 1992-1995 and 2x University Champ and record holder, 3x junior National Champ 3x Junior World Team Member, highest placing: 9th Junior American Record 163kg (358lb) snatch and 190kg (419lb) clean and jerk at super-heavyweight USA Weightlifting National Referee Jasha Faye has volunteered [...]

Lets talk about this 23 to 1 rule, and try to put everything in perspective.  We as Coaches have no more than 1 hour of your time per day.  If at all.  Our 1 precious hour a day with you is not going to change in the near future. I know, I’m sorry.  You always [...]

Introduction “This article will attempt to give a description of the generally accepted components of rowing technique and then spend some time focusing on the most common errors and how they can be overcome. The last part of the article will offer some tips on how to improve your ergo scores. Rowing is an excellent [...]