Crossfit Zone Victoria BC, Vancouver Island

We all know that familiar feeling:  you’ve already eaten, but you’re still feeling inexplicably peckish. Logically, you know that you’ve eaten enough food for now…perhaps even the day!  Yet you still can’t stop thinking about hunting after some sort of snack. You know that technically you shouldn’t be, but you are:  you’re still hungry!
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It happens to the best of us.  You rip your hands, and everything is instantly made all the more miserable for at least three days.  But how to prevent it?
We’ve talked about the importance of hand care, and shaving down your calluses regularly.  We’ve discussed how firmness of grip comes into play, and about the [...]

Hey all,
I’ve finally got all the video from the PISE Olympic weightlifting competition on my computer and we have a data projector, so why not put the two together?  On Sunday from 6-7pm, I’ll be reviewing a number of the lifts from the competition so that the individuals involved can get feedback but also so [...]

Mid-WOD slumps happen to even the most committed CrossFitters. Learn how to avoid these feelings so you can push through and get the most of your WODs, instead of sacrificing form and intensity at the gym.
Eat for Energy
A well-balanced diet is necessary for any healthy lifestyle, but it becomes increasingly important when you’re exercising at [...]

(We felt the need to re-post an older blurb on the art of properly dumping your weights in the gym…  Read it through again, if  you haven’t done so in awhile!)
The time has come to address an important issue of gym etiquette:  Dropping weights.
In CrossFit, being able to drop weights is a safety issue. We [...]