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Why you Should track your Heart rate at CFP.
1. You’ll know how fit you really are Heart rate tracking allows you to see 1. Your current working heart rate zone 2. Information on how long you can sustain your current heart rate zone 3. Tell you how long it takes your heart rate to return to normal after exercise. If you are training…
Benefits of CrossFit
You’re probably tired of being told how you need to get in shape, eat right, stay healthy, get enough sleep, don’t abuse drugs and alcohol, and don’t drink too much coffee. Health, fitness, and nutrition are everywhere, that’s for sure, and it can be overwhelming to think about when it’s a daily struggle just to…
Common CrossFit Movements
CrossFit can be its own little world — which is one of the things that makes CrossFit great — its sense of community. However, when you first enter new worlds, you have no clue what language CrossFitters are speaking. Well, you won’t have to worry anymore because CrossFit Pleasanton, the best CrossFit gym in Pleasanton,…
When your gym honeymoon ends…
Whether we’re talking about fitness or dating, there’s no better feeling than the honeymoon stage. You know the stage: Those first few days, weeks, maybe even months when your newfound relationship or passion for the gym is novel and you’re overtaken by giddy-ness and over-the-moon excitement and anticipation. It’s all you can think about… Fast-forward…
What It really Means when You say Your “Too Busy”
I’ve been coaching for over a decade and in that time I have heard my share of excuses from clients on why they don’t stick to their own commitments and goals. There seems to be one excuse in particular that I keep hearing over and over like a broken record. The excuse I’m referring to…
Fitness on the road
Fitness while traveling is like day with a substitute teacher when you were in grade school: Full of slacking off and acting out. Traveling as an adult often means ditching your normal, healthy routine—like eating well and working out—and adopting less healthy, lazier ones. The good news is you don’t have to throw those good…
Speed your metabolism…even as you age?
Imagine your metabolism allowed you to eat what you could when you were 15? According to holistic nutrition coach and author Kate Deering (http://katedeering.com/), you can get your youthful metabolism back—or at least you can speed it up despite your age. In fact, she wrote a book about it called: “How to heal your metabolism:…
Working out during the Holiday
Working out during the Holiday is more important than any other time of year. During the holidays, it’s tempting to throw your workouts by the wayside with the promise to start again after the New Year. Research shows that when regular exercise stops, de-training occurs within a couple weeks, and that makes it harder to…
The CFP Community
The CFP Community Working out as a community can be a powerful tool in the world of fitness. It can help us push through fitness walls that we would not do on our own. It keeps us going where we normally would stop. It also builds a stronger mind and the ability to endure more…
Nutrition is the key to PR’s
Athlete A: A client who has been here for three months on a 1RM deadlift day: He steps up to the bar, looks a bit perturbed by the ‘heavy’ weight, shrugs and then proceeds to bend down and pick the bar up with easy-to-see speed and ease. His reaction: “Holy shit, that was heavy!” Then…
Sticking to it
Science says when it comes to sticking to a workout program, we have been doing it all wrong! As a coach, one of my biggest challenges—along with getting clients to change their diet—is getting them to remain consistent with their fitness. I, as many others, have often assumed it largely comes down to two things:…
Shut it off and Sleep
BY SEAN CAPTAIN There’s an expression about knowing just enough to be dangerous. In the case of sleep science, Apple may know just enough to disappoint. In 2016, it introduced an iOS feature (later added to MacOS) called Night Shift that can change the screen to a “warmer” (orangey) hue before bedtime. The aim is to…
WHAT HAPPENED WHEN WE USED CROSSFIT FOR MARATHON TRAINING
Run faster by running less’ may sound an odd notion, but what if you could smash your marathon PB by chopping your mileage? RW’s injury-prone marathon veteran Kerry McCarthy gave it a go. By Kerry McCarthy See if this story sounds familiar: you sign up for a marathon and you tell yourself that this is going…
Why and How to Hook Grip Properly
The Hook Grip is one of the most fundamental pieces in the weightlifting puzzle, and also something that gives a lot of new lifters a great deal of trouble because of a misunderstanding of how the hook is actually created and held. The hook grip is a pronated (palms facing the lifter) grip in which…
Why it is so Important to Log your Workouts.
One of the most important reasons CrossFit and CrossFit style training is so successful is because we get a ‘measurable and repeatable’ result at the end of each day. While step 1 is just showing up and putting in the work, the real key to getting better over the long haul is to track progress over…