The Second Pull Blog — crossfit

The CrossFit Open is coming around again, and that means we’re going to see a lot of burpees and a lot of box jumps. With the ever looming potential for achilles injuries, we’re going to see a lot of people lambasting the use of rebounding box jumps. Last year, everyone jumped on the programming of Open WOD 13.2: 10 mins, as many rounds as possible of: - 5 shoulder to overhead, 115 lbs for men, 75 lbs for women - 10 deadlifts, same weight - 15 box jumps, 24 in for men, 20 in for women I have to say,...

The shoes you choose to workout in can oftentimes have a dramatic effect on your movement, abilities, and overall performance. Most of us who do crossfit have adopted the use of minimalist athletic footwear due to their lightweight and low profile design features. Today we’re fortunate to have a ton of training shoe options at our fingertips from some of the best footwear manufacturers in the business. Reebok is by far the most well-known and visible of these manufacturers, and since partnering up with Crossfit they’ve begun to release some different footwear choices for the wide range of athletes who...

The supplement, vitamin, and overall sports nutrition industry has been booming for the last couple of decades. It seems like every other day there’s a new product available touting the ability to enhance your performance in one way or another - some more outlandish than others. As the sport of fitness continues to grow and evolve, so too will the number of supplements marketed to the crossfit athlete. One of the newer supplements to hit local boxes is Extreme Endurance, developed and manufactured by nutraceutical company Extreme Endurance. Well known within the triathlete and endurance sport communities, Extreme Endurance is...

     The beautiful thing about CrossFit is its ever-changing nature. During the 2013 Reebok® CrossFit Games we were able to see the world’s best crossfitters power through a hellish weekend filled with not only familiar movements, but a whole batch of new ones we can start to hate and dread (legless rope climbs anyone?). And as our sport continues to change and evolve, so does the equipment we use and rely on.      Reebok® like they’ve done so well in the past has risen to the occasion with the release of the brand new Reebok® CrossFit Nano 3.0....