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Can you outrun a bad diet?
🎄Happy holidays! Planning to enjoy family, friends and some good food over the next couple of days? Make sure to carve out some time for...
Dec 21, 20241 min read
Why Your Conditioning Is Not Improving: The science on hard gainers
Always fun when researchers come out with a study and say - Nope that is not true, let’s refute that myth. 😀 It seems that when training...
Dec 4, 20241 min read
Carbohydrates in endurance events: Why? Some biology
🍯 WHY would you need to supplement carbs during longer endurance events? This post is inspired by the insights from our ongoing...
Nov 29, 20242 min read
The power of positive self-talk.
Top performers in their respective discipline take this aspect of performance seriously. It may separate the good from the great. 🧾...
Nov 13, 20241 min read
Always Training Hard might LIMIT Gains in Fitness - New study suggests
🤔 Something that the CrossFit methodology is overlooking? A new overview study looked at the effects of training intensity on gains in...
Oct 31, 20241 min read
The Hidden Downside of Always Trainig too Hard
🥵 Why always training too hard might limit long-term process High-intensity functional workouts like AMRAPs, EMOMs, and “for time”...
Oct 31, 20241 min read
Radical life expansion unlikely this century
Full paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s43587-024-00702-3
Oct 15, 20241 min read
Pain tolerance in athletes: Are they really built different?
Athletes And Pain - An Inseparable Relationship? Some of you will still remember the examples from the first slide. From left to right:...
Oct 10, 20241 min read
Cold water, nor massage gun enhance recovery after hard exercise - New study finds
I have never understood why people would jump in a bath full of ice cold water after training to 'enhance' their recovery. It is all...
Oct 4, 20241 min read
Early vs. Late Specialization in Sports
❌ Early sport specialization, the path to injury, burnout and suboptimal performance? As a fresh father of three, I am thinking about...
Oct 2, 20241 min read
Exercise as an anti-depressant
Exercise is a truly powerful anti-depressant. Not just in general or from a preventative perspective, but also from a clinical...
Sep 27, 20241 min read
Join the ZONE 2 project!
We want to test the effectiveness of ZONE 2 training for CrossFit®️ From September 30th 2024 we will start a project involving two...
Sep 26, 20241 min read
Be impressed by intensity, not volume
A quote by founder of CrossFit, Greg Glassman Although any physical activity is better than none, this study suggests that longer bouts...
Sep 24, 20241 min read
Is Zone 2 Needed in CrossFit? (pt.1)
Zone 2 Training in High-Intensity Sports: a two part series 🔥 Are you doing zone 2 training, but not sure you are actually training in...
Sep 3, 20241 min read
Is Zone 2 Needed in CrossFit? (pt.2)
Zone 2 Training in High-Intensity Sports: a two-part series 🔥 Pt. 2 // Do I need to do Zone 2 training as a CrossFit athlete? In this...
Sep 3, 20241 min read
Carbs are KING for High-Intensity Sports
Carbohydrates are probably the most misunderstood macronutrient out there. In this post, we lay out biochemical reasons WHY carbohydrates...
Sep 3, 20241 min read
A Guide to Building More Muscle in CrossFit
How to build muscle while maintaining functional fitness. A question we get a lot. Rightly so, because a recent overview study showed...
Sep 3, 20241 min read
Increase your VO2max - A Two Step Protocol
VO2max is an important parameter defining cardiovascular capacity and longevity. Although VO2max is partly genetically determined, there...
Sep 3, 20241 min read
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