Dave has asked me to write a blog post about my experience at CrossFit SoHi, but I’m really struggling to know what to say. It’s kind of like being asked to write about your experience with oxygen, or gravity… or bacon. CrossFit is a fundamental touchstone that has become a core part of my life….
I’m sure every CrossFit box has a person that every member looks to for inspiration. For us it’s Sue. Sue joined us approximately 18 months ago. She came almost apologetically, constantly saying sorry that she couldn’t lift much, ran slowly, couldn’t remember the moves and assumed that she was holding everybody up. She shyly told…
The Story When it comes to losing weight, everyone has a story. A story about how they came to be at the point they are at, the weight they are at and the level of happiness they are at. I also have a story, but you know what? It doesn’t matter. Let’s just fast forward…
Exactly what is your gym membership worth? How much value are you really getting out of the dollars you spend each week. I hear so many people say how they are a finding their current gym boring, they aren’t getting results, they don’t actually know what to do once they are there as they have…
A couple of weeks ago a kind soul offered some ‘anonymous’ advice that I should think about the image that I as a box owner was portraying as they only wanted to take fitness and nutrition advice from someone thin and fit. I’ve been working in the fitness industry for 19 years now. The first…
As a nutritionist I really care about not only what I eat but what I advise others to eat. As a result any nutrition related products that we stock at CFSoHi are very carefully deliberated over for their quality and value for money. Today’s blog is going to concentrate on the protein powder we stock….
I thought I’d use my month’s blog edition to give a quick little insight into the some of the life long lessons CrossFit is teaching me. Yes, teaching. Lesson one- Constantly learning: To have learnt something means that it is past tense. No matter what you think you know about anything, it is merely a…
This paleo banana bread is amazing, its derived from a Civilized Caveman recipe with just a few little Coach D special ingredients added. The recipe is: 4 Bananas 4 Eggs ½ Cup almond butter 4 Table spoons butter (melted) ½ Cup of coconut flour 1 Table spoon cinnamon 1 Tea spoon baking soda 1 Tea…
The black dog, depression, the blues, anxiety, feeling down….call it what you want but this is a problem on the rise. In fact a recent snapshot of the 33 OECD (Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development) nations has revealed that Australia is now the secondhighest prescriber of antidepressant medications. In fact usage has of antidepressant…
1: Cherry Picking In our box nothing is random, our programming is constantly varied YES but it’s by no means random. We train for fitness, competitions, but more importantly for life itself and we do this with a constantly varied approach. Once constantly varied turns into random it becomes like wandering around the desert looking…
