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What a Competition Day Looks Like From the Floor
Move-Lift-Work is today. If this is your first time, here is what the next six hours feel like.
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Move, Lift, Work: What the Three Parts Are
Move-Lift-Work runs a week today, Saturday 10 October. Entries closed on 21 September, so this is for the people already on the list, and for anyone who want…
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Why the Class Beats Training on Your Own
Plenty of people have trained alone for twenty years and done perfectly well out of it. If you've got a programme, you follow it, and you know how to load a squat, solo training works.
CrossFit
Why We Score
Every workout here has a score. A time, a number of reps, a load — something goes on the board at the front and something goes in the app. For a nervous beginner that looks like a leaderboard, and that can be somewhat off-putting.
beginners
What a 60-Minute Class Fits In
People arrive expecting an hour of shouting and burpees. It's a fair thing to expect from the internet.
beginners
Coming Back After a False Start Somewhere Else
You joined a gym in January. You went four times in the first fortnight, twice more in February, and then not at all. The direct debit is still going out.
CrossFit
Why You Should Enter a Competition
Move- Lift- Work is on Saturday 10 October, here, in our gym. Three events — Move is the engine piece, Lift is the lift, Work is the CrossFit workout. Individual entries. Sign up on WodBoard, and entries close on 21 September.
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Bringing Your Partner Along
You've been training a few months, it's going well, and it seems obvious that the person you live with should come too.
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Why a Coach Beats an App
An app costs about a tenth of what coaching costs and it will give you a programme that's better written than most of what people do on their own. I'd rather someone trained off an app than wandered around a gym for a year. But be clear about what it can and can't do.
beginners
What Happens When You Can't Finish the Workout
We've all been there, the clock running out with everyone else finished, and you still going.
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September Starts Tomorrow. Here's How to Begin.
It's the last day of the summer holidays. Tomorrow the term starts, the diary resets, and for about a week everyone in Amersham is open to doing things differently. That window is short. If you've read this blog through August — the fear of being the worst
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Ignite: What the First Three Months Look Like
Most gyms sell you a membership and a door code. We don't, because it doesn't work for the person we're built for — someone who hasn't trained in years and is nervous about starting. Hand that person a door code and a timetable