Crossfit can be a fantastic sport that improves you physically and mentally. But if done wrong, it can also cause you to plateau and (thankfully more rare) it can also break you a bit. Because, boy...
HIIT - or, High Intensity Interval Training - seems to be everywhere at the moment. It’s especially popular among sprinters and fitness gods who want to increase and maintain their muscle tone and ...
The type of body you were born with will decide how you train so that you’re always maximising your time in the gym. There are three main body types: Ectomorph Endomorph Mesomorph In this ...
Crossfit is all about endurance and power. And when it comes to the drugs you can use and cannot use, knowledge is power, too. Performance enhancing drugs have been a controversial issue in spo...
Wanna be the best beast you can be? You need to get intense. When people talk about “intensity”, what do they mean exactly, though? Well, if you’re an intense person, it usually means that you’re p...
Skipping or - for American readers - jumping rope, is a staple exercise in three places – a Crossfit gym (AKA box), a boxing gym, and a primary school playground. My brother often teases me about s...
Everyone knows that top boxers skip (jump rope) – we’ve all seen the videos of Mayweather moving so fast that the rope, his hands and feet are all a blur. But why should boxers jump rope? Skipping ...
Beast Gear Stories: Jason Smith - Africa's Fittest Man Welcome to the first in our new series: Beast Gear Stories, where we catch up with inspiring characters from the world of sport, health and fi...
You can still find articles online – usually from around 2010 – that call Crossfit a ‘fad’. They called it out as a passing trend which would pass in a few years. Wrong. Crossfit is a massive p...
10 years ago the only people skipping were boxers and 9-year-old girls. Now skipping is a staple conditioning tool for Crossfitters, martial artists, bodybuilders and fitness fans everywhere…and YO...
Skipping!? That’s for children isn’t it? The only adults who skip are professional boxers aren’t they? Well, I used to feel that way – and then I discovered that actually, skipping rocks! Skipping...
Can you pronounce Tsatsouline? No? Well it’s “sat-soo-lean”, and if you aren’t familiar with this name, you should be. Pavel Tsatsouline is a world renowned strength and conditioning coach. Molded ...