The Second Pull Blog

So you signed up for the 2014 CrossFit Games Open and by the time this is published, you’ve ideally survived your first workout (14.1) and have four more to go.  Here are 10 Tips to ensure your CrossFit Open experience is a positive one: Maintain a balanced perspective.  I’d argue the most dangerous facet of the Open is folks getting overly excited and pushing themselves too far, too fast, and risking injury.  Ignore the marketing hype – the Open is not the report card to grade the culmination of the past nine months of work; a litmus test of who you...

The CrossFit Open is coming around again, and that means we’re going to see a lot of burpees and a lot of box jumps. With the ever looming potential for achilles injuries, we’re going to see a lot of people lambasting the use of rebounding box jumps. Last year, everyone jumped on the programming of Open WOD 13.2: 10 mins, as many rounds as possible of: - 5 shoulder to overhead, 115 lbs for men, 75 lbs for women - 10 deadlifts, same weight - 15 box jumps, 24 in for men, 20 in for women I have to say,...

The shoes you choose to workout in can oftentimes have a dramatic effect on your movement, abilities, and overall performance. Most of us who do crossfit have adopted the use of minimalist athletic footwear due to their lightweight and low profile design features. Today we’re fortunate to have a ton of training shoe options at our fingertips from some of the best footwear manufacturers in the business. Reebok is by far the most well-known and visible of these manufacturers, and since partnering up with Crossfit they’ve begun to release some different footwear choices for the wide range of athletes who...

The supplement, vitamin, and overall sports nutrition industry has been booming for the last couple of decades. It seems like every other day there’s a new product available touting the ability to enhance your performance in one way or another - some more outlandish than others. As the sport of fitness continues to grow and evolve, so too will the number of supplements marketed to the crossfit athlete. One of the newer supplements to hit local boxes is Extreme Endurance, developed and manufactured by nutraceutical company Extreme Endurance. Well known within the triathlete and endurance sport communities, Extreme Endurance is...