We do a lot of skipping at CrossFit Leicester. Double Unders are a staple metabolic conditioning movement of CrossFit, and a staple movement frustrating most member. Here are a few tips for start to finish bettering your skipping ability. SIZING: To figure out the right size for the rope to use, just grab one and[…]
Nobody likes to put ice on his or her body; it’s shocking and uncomfortable. However, ice therapy or cryotherapy is a vitally important modality in the immediate treatment and rehabilitation of acute soft-tissue injuries. Unfortunately, there are many people who still are using heat treatment instead. As quickly as possible after injury, ice is necessary[…]
Journaling means recording your workouts, lifts, and sometimes what you ate and how you slept in a journal each day. Some people just use old school composition books, others use a more personalised one of their choosing, and we will be selling from June awesome personalised ones here at CF Leicester. It is an important[…]
You are going to get run down here and there doing any fitness program. Its the body working through a lot of hard work and rebuilding itself to a stronger version. I’m sure you know what I am talking about. We have all had the morning after struggle to get out of bed after a[…]
First off, you can expect to be pretty sore for your first 2 weeks to a month of training. All of these movements are relatively new and you are working muscles that you may have never used before or haven’t worked in a long time. Soft tissue/self massage work (baseball/foam/pvc rolling) will help break up[…]
So I am not one to visit the doctor’s office when I’m not feeling so energetic and my usual pumped self … I just believe that the body has the ability to heal itself when given the proper nutrition, fluids, and rest. However, some things just don’t have the ability to heal properly on their[…]
For those committed to trying to get healthier by cleaning up their diet, and possibly heading in a paleo-type diet direction, one of the best ways to eat healthier is to eat and cook more meals at home (or at least cook at home and take your meals with you to work, school, etc.). Cutting[…]
After watching the most physically fit individuals on earth perform gruelling workouts during the CrossFit Games I began noticing the advanced athletes at our box doing the same thing…transitioning well. What does that mean? They drop the barbell, breath heavily on the walk over to the pull up structure hammer out toes to bar then[…]
WHAT IS CROSSFIT ENDURANCE CrossFit Endurance is an endurance sports training program dedicated to improving performance, fitness and endurance sports potential. We inspire, coach, and provide our community with the most aggressive and proven fundamentals of sports science, exercise physiology, nutrition, and athletic training protocols. We are the leaders in strength and conditioning for endurance[…]