Designed to test your mind, push your limits and challenge your body, CrossFit isn’t just exercise. As a performance-based, endurance-testing training method, it’s a way

Good health is very much about good habits. This is true for everyone, but it becomes even more significant as we grow older. Changes in

The Snatch and the Clean and Jerk are the two movements contested in the sport of weightlifting (also known as Olympic weightlifting or even Oly

The infamous Burpee, as demonstrated here by CrossFit Seminar Staff member James Hobart, is often the movement we all love to hate the most. And

The Strict Muscle-Up is an impressive skill by anyone’s standards – take a look at this video of CrossFit Seminar Staff member Julie Foucher, demonstrating

Do you feel burned out at work or overwhelmed by family life? Are you looking for a productive way to break out of your routine?

There goes that 5am alarm!  What do you do — hit the snooze button or force yourself up to make that workout class you booked

Addiction can feel all-encompassing and life-consuming, but it doesn’t have to be. In addition to getting treatment, you should stay physically active. Physical fitness facilitates better

Let’s face it, it’s impossible to eat clean 100% of the time and still provide your body with enough calories in order to keep up

Maybe being a lean, mean fitness machine is your end goal. But You don’t have to start out that way. We get it! The world

Ever since you were young you’ve been told to correct your posture… and guess what? It’s not going to stop now. The reason your parents,

When people hear “CrossFit”, they tend to picture a mountain of man who is completely shredded and able to bench press a bus. But the

When you breathe ‘right’, you maximise the flow of oxygen around your body. This gives you more energy and helps prevent stitches. It also helps

You’re half way through an eight-round Tabata and you’ve had enough. You’re tired, your muscles ache and your trainer’s motivational words are no longer reaching

The Air Squat is one of the first 9 fundamental CrossFit moves you will learn. This move acts as a foundation, setting you up to

Once you have mastered the Air Squat you will be able to quickly get the hang of the Front Squat. This is basically the same

As you have probably noticed, squats make up a big part of the CrossFit stable of moves. This is because they are an excellent way

Build your biceps, lats and pectoral muscles with this Fundamental CrossFit move. The Shoulder Press must be mastered if you are going to make the

Now you are getting serious about your CrossFit training, it is time to master the Push Press. In time, you will be able to build

The Push Jerk is one of CrossFit’s most powerful moves. It may look straightforward, however you need to know the right technique to master it

”Take a look at the seventh of 9 Fundamental CrossFit moves.” Once you have mastered the basic move, you can continue to challenge yourself by

Build on the Deadlift move and fast-track your strength with the Sumo Deadlift High Pull. Start off light with this one then gradually add weight

When done correctly, this move works your hamstrings, glutes, thighs and core. It also helps develop your arm, shoulder and back strength. That’s a full

You’ve signed up because you love a challenge and you want to push yourself and see how far you can go. People sign up to

Feeling the burn? When you do CrossFit, muscle soreness is part of the process. Don’t be put off by those aches and pains! Instead, learn

CrossFit is a highly addictive workout that will take your fitness to extreme levels. Developed in 2001, the technique combines a series of high-intensity exercises

Weighing more than 200 pounds, she was miserable and “everything was impossible”. She felt helpless believed she was going to be stuck in a body

The world of CrossFit can seem intimidating. It can be easy to think you’re not going to fit in unless you have rock-solid abs and

Last week we looked at the Front Squat, this week CrossFit Seminar Staff member James Hobart shows us the Back Squat. This differs from the

Once we’ve nailed the perfect Air Squat, we can start to add some weight. This can be done with a kettlebell in the form of

We start our movement series with that most fundamental and ubiquitous of CrossFit movements, the humble air squat, demonstrated here by CrossFit HQ seminar staff

CrossFit Seminar Staff member Julie Foucher demonstrates another hinge movement, the Good Morning. The Good Morning is an excellent exercise to strengthen the back, the

The Deadlift is another big fundamental movement and differs from the squat in that is it a hinge movement. This means that instead of moving

The Deadlift is another big fundamental movement and differs from the squat in that is it a hinge movement. This means that instead of moving

The Thruster is sort of a barbell version of the Wall Ball that we looked at last week (but please don’t let go of your

The Wall Ball is a great little movement that you will encounter fairly early in your Crossit journey. It looks simple enough, a bit of

The Push Press, which CrossFit Seminar Staff member Julie Foucher demonstrates for us in this video, is very similar to the Shoulder Press, except now

Also known as the Strict Press or Overhead Press, and demonstrated here by CrossFit Seminar Staff member Julie Foucher, the Shoulder Press is the starting

Once you’ve perfected all the performance points of the single under, you’re ready to try your hand at the infamous Double-Under, demonstrated here by CrossFit

The Single-Under is really just a single skip. If it has been some time since you picked up a skipping rope, then working on getting

The Overhead Squat, demonstrated here by CrossFit Seminar Staff member James Hobart, is the most unforgiving of all the squat movements, so it not for

The ABMAT situp, demonstrated here by CrossFit Seminar Staff member Julie Foucher is a great little core exercise. As with most core exercises, where the

A staple powerlifting movement, the Bench Press, demonstrated here by CrossFit Seminar Staff member James Hobart, is a great at developing chest strength. However CrossFit

Following on from last week’s dips on the bar, this week we look at the Ring Dip, demonstrated here by CrossFit Seminar Staff member James

Following on from our bodyweight pushing movement theme, CrossFit Seminar staff member, James Hobart, demonstrates the Bar Dip. The bar dip is a great way

CrossFit Seminar Staff member James Hobart demonstrates the ring push-up. Like a normal puishup, the ring push up works to strengthen the chest, shoulder and

You’ve most likely done a Push-up at some point in your life before starting CrossFit, but you might not have done the full range of

The Box Jump is a great movement for developing explosive power and jumping ability. It literally does what is says on the.. well… box. From

As much as rowing looks like an arm exercise, most of your power for each stroke actually comes from the leg drive. It is also

Like the Kettlebell Swing, the Sumo Deadlift High Pull is a more explosive hinge movement, creating more momentum in the barbell and making it easier

The Kettlebell Swing is a firm favourite with many people, not just because it’s fun and it feels good, but because of it’s all over

CrossFit Seminar Staff member James Hobart demonstrates the Overhead Lunge here, which is a more challenging version of the back and front rack lunges we

CrossFit Seminar Staff member James Hobart demonstrates the back rack lunge here, which is pretty much, as you’ve no doubt guessed by now, just another

Building on from the Walking Lunge last week, this week all we are doing is adding some weight with a barbell in the Front Rack

Over the next four weeks we are going to look at different variations on single leg movements starting with variations on the lunge. Single leg

This week CrossFit Seminar Staff member James Hobart demonstrates the legless rope climb, which most definitely does require more upper body strength than the leg

Anybody can climb a rope, even if you don’t have a lot of upper body strength! Over the next couple of weeks, we look at

In today’s video, CrossFit Seminar Staff member James Hobart demonstrates the basket rope climb. This is similar to the wrapping technique we looked at last

CrossFit Seminar Staff members Julie Foucher and James Hobart demonstrate the L-sit, which is a challenging core and hip flexor exercise. It can be performed

CrossFit Seminar Staff member Julie Foucher demonstrates the V-up, a great abdominal strengthener, primarily targetting the rectus abdominis or the ‘six pack’ muscle. It’s not

The Hollow position and Hollow Rock are staples for all gymnastics work and gymnasts spend literally hours drilling variations on this movement. To maximise the

Like the kipping pull-up, the Butterfly Pull-Up, demonstrated here by CrossFit Seminar Staff member James Hobart, uses momentum to lift yourself over the bar. The

Following on from last week’s kipping pull-up, CrossFit Seminar Staff member James Hobart demonstrates the kipping chest-to-bar pull-up for us this week. This is pretty

CrossFit Seminar Staff member James Hobart demonstrates the kipping pull-up. The kipping pull-up differs from the strict Pull-up in that it uses momentum to propel

The Toes to Bar, demonstrated here by CrossFit Seminar Staff member James Hobart is very often the first kipping movement you come across in CrossFit.

CrossFit Seminar Staff member James Hobart demonstrates the strict chest-to-bar pull-up, which is exactly like the strict pull-up, but you need to pullyourself higher, so

A fundamental movement and one on the wish list of many, the pull-up, often known in CrossFit as the ‘strict’ pullup to distinguish it from

We are back to gymnastics for our next series of Movement Tips and over the next few weeks we will be looking at pull-ups and

The Pistol Squat, as demonstrated here by CrossFit Seminar Staff member James Hobart, is a one legged squat that, like the Overhead Squat, requires a

CrossFit Seminar Staff member James Hobart demonstrates the Turkish get-up. The Turkish Get-up is a fantastic exercise, that you could do with practically any heavy

As the two Olympic Lifts require the barbell to move from the floor to an overhead position, we will need to add something to the

The Push Jerk, demonstrated here by Julie Foucher, CrossFit Level 1 Seminar Staff member, is similar to the Push Press in that we have the

CrossFit Seminar Staff member Julie Foucher demonstrates the Muscle Clean for us this week. With the Muscle Clean, the legs do not bend after the

This week CrossFit Seminar Staff member Julie Foucher demonstrates the Hang Power Clean for us. By this stage you may be getting a little confused

The Power Clean, as demonstrated here by CrossFit Seminar Staff member Julie Foucher, is simply a Clean where you don’t have to hit full depth

While the Clean is executed from the ground, the Hang Clean, demonstrated here by CrossFit Seminar Staff member James Hobart, is a variation of the

CrossFit Seminar Staff member James Hobart demonstrates the clean, which is the first of a two part Olympic Lift, the Clean and Jerk. When done

CrossFit Seminar Staff member Julie Foucher demonstrates the medicine-ball clean, which is one of CrossFit’s 9 Foundational Movements. This is a great little exercise, along

This week, CrossFit Seminar Staff member James Hobart demonstrates the skin the cat for us. Skin the Cat is typically a more advanced gymnastics movement.

Like the kipping Pull-Up, the Kipping Bar Muscle-Up is easier to achieve than the Strict Muscle-Up as it uses momentum to help throw your bodyweight

CrossFit Seminar Staff member James Hobart demonstrates the Snatch Balance, which is a great exercise for developing speed, timing and precision dropping under the bar

CrossFit Seminar Staff member James Hobart demonstrates the Snatch Balance, which is a great exercise for developing speed, timing and precision dropping under the bar

This week CrossFit Seminar Staff member Julie Foucher demonstrates the Hang Power Snatch for us. By this stage you may be getting a little confused

The Power Snatch, as demonstrated here by CrossFit Seminar Staff member Julie Foucher, is simply a Snatch where you don’t have to hit full depth

While the Snatch is executed from the ground, the Hang Snatch, demonstrated here by CrossFit Seminar Staff member James Hobart, is a variation of the

The Snatch, demonstrated here by CrossFit Seminar Staff member Julie Foucher, is the first of the two lifts contested in the sport of weightlifting. The

Everybody wants to handstand walk! CrossFit Seminar Staff member Julie Foucher does a great and balanced demonstration for us here. Like most gymnastics movement, the

The Kipping Handstand Push-Up, demonstrated here by CrossFit Seminar Staff member James Hobart is a movement best left to the competitive CrossFit athletes. While it

CrossFit Seminar Staff member James Hobart demonstrates the handstand push-up. For some of us, getting upside down is something we haven’t done since we were

We take a break from Olympic Weightlifting for a few weeks as we look again at some Gymnastics or Bodyweight skills. The Wall Walk is