by Deane Barker | Oct 6, 2015 | Crossfit Philosophy, CrossFit Workouts, Members |
I heard something once about fitness that I thought was silly at the time, but that makes more and more sense the older I get: You don’t increase your fitness by working out. You increase your fitness by recovering from working out. It’s true. You...
by Deane Barker | Jul 25, 2015 | Crossfit Philosophy, CrossFit Workouts |
I was born in 1971, so I hit my impressionable years in the 1980s. A staple of my adolescence was a TV show called Magnum PI, which ran from 1980 – 1988. This is the show that made Tom Selleck a star. Selleck played Thomas Magnum, a devil-may-care private...
by Deane Barker | Apr 29, 2015 | Crossfit Philosophy, CrossFit Workouts |
I graduated from high school in June 1989. By December of that year, I had enlisted and found myself on plane to Chicago to spend the next nine weeks in boot camp at Great Lakes, Illinois. I was sitting there, clutching a large manila envelope stamped “U.S....
by Deane Barker | Feb 5, 2015 | Crossfit Philosophy, CrossFit Workouts, Lifestyle, Nutrition |
When I was getting my CrossFit Level 1 certification, we had a lecture on nutrition. The instructor, a woman named Nicole, was discussing the major macro nutrients — proteins, carbs, and fats — and how to make sure you get the right amount of each. A guy...
by Deane Barker | Jan 14, 2015 | Crossfit Philosophy, Events, Lifestyle |
There are two things that my eldest daughter wants right now: (1) new carpet in her bedroom, and (2) a better vertical jump for volleyball. In the interests of efficiency, my wife and I decided to combine the two. I brought her into the gym and had her try a couple...
