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Optimize Your Recovery Time
Whether you are training for an endurance race, weightlifting meet, the CrossFit Games, or life in general, your ability to quickly recover from your most recent training session has a direct impact on the quality and results of your next training session. The faster...
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5 Common Rowing Mistakes
Rowing is certainly a mode of exercise that people can progress very quickly in. In fact, it’s not uncommon for a talented athlete to start rowing and make their country’s national team within just two or three short years. The point is only to say it doesn’t take...
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Rip Tips
If you’re swinging on bars doing pull-ups and throwing around kettlebells and barbells, chances are you’re going to rip your hands at some point. For you veterans: Do you remember your first rip? Were you excited because it felt like a rite of passage into the world...
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Choosing Movement Progressions
Choosing progressions doesn’t show weakness: It shows intelligence Handstand push-ups are on the agenda today: 5 sets of 5 reps as challenging as possible. Some athletes kip, others do strict deficit sets, but the great majority choose a “progression” to get through...
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What you can expect from your Coach for Life
One of the things we pride ourselves on at The Foundry is being able to provide all our clients with a Coach for Life. What’s a coach for life? Well, it’s something you won’t find at many gyms! The majority of fitness facilities are marred by a constant revolving door...
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Why you’re not PR’ing anymore. Or are you…
When personal bests become few and far between… When you first start training, you can pretty much expect to hit a personal best nearly every day you show up, and sometimes they’re huge PRs. Two years later, personal bests might only happen once a week. A year after...
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Take your fitness with you on the road
Fitness while traveling is like a day with a substitute teacher when you were in grade school: Full of slacking off and acting out. Traveling as an adult often means ditching your normal, healthy routine—like eating well and working out—and adopting a less healthy,...
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Staying Committed
Whether we’re talking about fitness or dating, there’s no better feeling than the honeymoon stage. You know the stage: Those first few days, weeks, and maybe even months when your newfound relationship or passion for the gym is novel and you’re overtaken by giddy-ness...
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Are you socially fulfilled?
Loneliness @ 1,000 friends It’s one of the biggest paradoxes of our time. Through technology, it's never been easier to be in contact with other people. But in reality, as many studies have shown, our dependency on screen time is causing our relationships with one...
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Breathing and Performance Workshop at The Foundry
Importance of Breathing Mechanics Understanding why breathing is important to us is an easy concept to grasp…without air, we do not survive. However, very few people understand the true importance of breathing habits, and how proper training can improve quality of...
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Improve Your Running in Just 8 Weeks with Foundry Spartan SGX
An 8-week intensive program designed to build the skills and confidence necessary to take on the Spartan Race obstacle course. Back for the 2018 Season! Spartan SGX @ The Foundry is a CrossFit Endurance-based approach to building aerobic capacity and training obstacle...
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What Does It Mean To Be Perfect? Foundry Open 2018
After falling behind 26-7 to rival Dallas Carter High School in the state championships, “Coach Gaines” (Billy Bob Thorton) of Permian High School tells the guys what being perfect really means. “Well I want you to understand somethin'. To me, being perfect is not...
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