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How USA Weightlifting is Helping Fight Cancer

How USA Weightlifting is Helping Fight Cancer

Weightlifting for a great cause? That sounds amazing to us. USA Weightlifting isn't just about winning medals and breaking records; they're also on a mission to destroy cancer. Through the American Cancer Society's Coaches vs. Cancer program, RWL Weightlifting and USA Weightlifting will take part in the third annual Kilos...

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Learning the Squat Clean With Khan Porter

Learning the Squat Clean With Khan Porter

The clean, one of two Olympic lifts, is a common ingredient in CrossFit classes and WODs. There are two main variations: the power clean (where the bar is caught above parallel), and the squat clean or clean (where you ride the bar all the way down into a squat). Right...

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5 Tips to Maintain Your Hands

5 Tips to Maintain Your Hands

If you’re already part of the CrossFit community, you’ve probably noticed the social media posts from people boasting about their hand tears, calluses and bruises. Many consider these their badges of honor. However, nothing about injuring yourself is honorable. Knowing how to maintain your hands is nonnegotiable. Injuries only keep...

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USA Weightlifting Picks its IWF Championships Squad

USA Weightlifting Picks its IWF Championships Squad

Exciting news coming from USA Weightlifting: they’ve officially selected their squad for the 2017 International Weightlifting Federation World Weightlifting Championships, which is being hosted at the Anaheim, California Convention Center from November 28 through December 5. While we’ve always put up a good fight, the USAW has experienced a “12-year...

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Sarah Robles is Proving That Beauty Comes in All Sizes

Sarah Robles is Proving That Beauty Comes in All Sizes

Functional fitness and weightlifting are wonderful for women. It's an area where ladies are encouraged to focus on what their bodies can do, as opposed to what they look like. Whereas magazines and pop culture want women to be stick thin and vulnerable, functional fitness and weightlifting tell us to...

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The CrossFit Kettlebell Specialty Course is Here to Up Your KB Game

The CrossFit Kettlebell Specialty Course is Here to Up Your KB Game

While CrossFit is about being good at many different things, they still offer more specific training so you can improve in each area. Enter CrossFit courses. Aside from attending Level 1 and Level 2 seminars to receive your certification, CrossFit offers a variety of specialty courses; and they've recently revamped...

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Tia-Clair Toomey Brings Home Medal at Weightlifting Championships

Tia-Clair Toomey Brings Home Medal at Weightlifting Championships

Tia-Clair Toomey is no stranger to podiums. After being crowned the fittest on earth at this year's CrossFit Games, she finished on the podium once again – this time, coming in third at the 2017 Commonwealth and Oceania Weightlifting Championships. Competing as a 58kg lifter, Toomey finished with a 75kg...

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Knee Wraps or Knee Sleeves?

Knee Wraps or Knee Sleeves?

Finding the right fitness accessory for your workout routines might just give you the added boost that you are looking for. Let’s talk about knee sleeves versus knee wraps. You may have noticed a couple of people wearing knee accessories at the gym. While they do look cool, knee wraps...

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Dave Castro Has a Challenge for You!

Dave Castro Has a Challenge for You!

Director of the CrossFit Games Dave Castro has teased another individual Games event on his Instagram account. He's challenged his followers with filling in the blanks and offered up a Rogue Fitness Castro Bar as the prize for the correct guess! https://www.instagram.com/p/BXEheyJlSQu/?taken-by=thedavecastro&hl=en  

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Q&A With Games-Bound Jess Coughlan

Q&A With Games-Bound Jess Coughlan

Like most people who step into a CrossFit gym for the first time, Jess Coughlan didn’t think she was good enough to be a competitive CrossFit athlete. All of that changed after the 2011 CrossFit Games Open, in which she placed eighth in Australia. It wasn’t always an easy battle,...

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CrossFit Announces 2017 Team Series

CrossFit Announces 2017 Team Series

CrossFit HQ has announced the details surrounding this year's CrossFit Team Series. Read all about it here. 

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The Benefits of Body Language

The Benefits of Body Language

Whether it’s dominating the competition world or meeting your own fitness goals, most athletes strive to be at peak performance. No matter what the motivation, reaching the apex of health and fitness is a never-ending challenge. Dedicated athletes rarely miss a day of training. They eat all the right foods...

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