I remember, very specifically, learning  two things that I can do very well today: reading and riding a bicycle. First, reading.  My sister was three grades ahead of me and was an absolute MONSTER at reading the Ramona and the Baby Sitter’s Club series.  I tried, and it was like Greek.  In all seriousness, I [...]Continue Reading

Bringing in the New Year means ‘lots of new goals and more motivation to be better than the year before.  Remember, the goat at the bottom of the hill is hungrier than the goat at the top of the hill…which goat are you?  Here are the accomplishments that have been achieved in just one short [...]Continue Reading

Athletes Who Started Their Careers Late in Life By Coach Paul Wirtz WikiPedia, defines Late Bloomers as: “A person whose talents or capabilities are not visible to others until later than usual. The term is used metaphorically to describe a child or adolescent who develops more slowly than others in their age group, but eventually [...]Continue Reading

How many times have you found yourself saying it?  ”I only wish I had found CrossFit earlier in life!” I know that I’ve said it on multiple occasions and often hear it from our adult athletes. I often muse about what it would have done to boost my self-image, make me more of a problem solver, [...]Continue Reading

I don’t have much to say today.  But that I observed faces tonight.  A lot of you look sad…stressed..overwhelmed..and frustrated… Ahhhhhhhhh…yahhhhhhh….Life can be so stressful.  So unforgiving.  Please don’t let it take away from the hour a day that you get for just you.  Try to let it go.  For at least an hour. When [...]Continue Reading

Call it what you may…Drive, desire, will, swagger, mojo…it’s all the same, and the fact of matter is, sometime you have it, and sometimes you don’t. When you have it…ohhhhhhhhh, baby...you’re unstoppable.  PR’s daily, feeling like a million bucks in a WOD, the craving to get the gym daily….it’s the medicine for everything that’s bad [...]Continue Reading

All I could think as I scrolled through the photographs from this Saturday’s Master’s competition in Norwalk, I couldn’t help but think one thing over and over again: “These people are all over forty?!?!?  NO WAY!” In a society where a large number of individuals give up their physical goals by their forties, Saturday’s athletes [...]Continue Reading