We wanted to give a shout out to our own Ricky Alcarez who will be defending his MMA Full Contact Fighting Federation (FCFF) Super Heavyweight title in the upcoming Rumble at the Roseland 69 in Portland on January 19th. While we miss training with Ricky on a daily basis (now that he's down in California...
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Let me start by saying - if you're not keeping a training log, you're losing out on a ton of potential improvement. I can't stress this enough, but a training log is CRITICAL to improving as an athlete. Not making any gains? Not losing weight? Feeling run down or injured?...
Continue readingLearning the Ropes
CrossFit Reflexion has been open about a month, and we're seeing a lot of new faces at the gym; our fitness family is growing! A huge thank you to everyone who has been bringing friends in to try out a week (free!) of CrossFit, or handing out flyers, or liking...
Continue readingBeing Sick and Working Out
Let's face it. “It” happens, even to CrossFitters. You come to the gym and go to pick up a weight and it feels abnormally heavy. You brush it off as fatigue from yesterday's WOD and continue to lift. Then, the daily metcon feels really hard, and your score stinks, and...
Continue readingYou Can’t Get It All In One Day
With the 2013 Open 110 days away (not that we're counting down or anything) I've been talking with a lot of our open hopefuls, and wanted to share something I've been telling them. You can't get it all in one day.
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CRX is almost complete!
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After CrossFitting for a little over 2 years, I'm in the best shape of my life and broke my all time snatch record. Last time I had over 200lbs over my head was 18 years ago. Today, I put 210lbs over my head and it wouldn't be possible with the...
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