5 Steps to Becoming Julie Foucher
byBrandon Heavey|September 11, 2014 Beyond the whiteboard posted an interesting article last week on their blog. For those of you that don’t know, BTWB is a workout tracking website that’s been around for quite some time now. Four-time CrossFit Games competitor, Julie Foucher also happens to...
NPGL: Exciting as Hell and Definitely Not CrossFit
byBrandon Heavey|September 3, 2014 Last weekend I went to check out the first home match for the Los Angeles Reign, my local grid league team. Grid league, what the hell is that? Maybe you’ve heard of NPGL or perhaps their former name, NPFL. All of these monikers refer to the same thing, a sport...
Group Fitness Testing – July 2014
byBrandon Heavey|August 20, 2014 With great enthusiasm I announced in June a new series of posts on this site where I publish the results from the group classes at 626 and any insights gleaned from the direction of the training. So, without further ado, I give you the results from the most recent...
Energy Systems, a.k.a. 50 Shades of Conditioning
byBrandon Heavey|August 6, 2014 A few weeks ago I posted the results from a recent week of testing at 626. Included in these results were a battery of strength indicators, looking at the broad categories of: squatting, single leg, upper body pushing, upper body pulling, bending and core. Also...