Rest Makes You Stronger

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The following is an excerpt from Train For Something Greater: A CrossFitter’s Guide to Spiritual Fitness. ***** Take a Break A couple of years ago, we had an athlete in our gym who was drinking the CrossFit Kool-Aid with both hands. You could see it in his eyes. He was obsessed, maybe even addicted. CrossFit [...]

The Ugly Side of CrossFit

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The following is an excerpt from my ebook Train for Something Greater: A CrossFitter’s Guide to Spiritual Fitness available in Kindle format via Amazon. The Ugly Side of CrossFit One of the knocks against CrossFit is that many CrossFitters come across as arrogant to outsiders. Where are they getting this impression? I have no idea. [...]

The View From The Floor

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The following is an excerpt from my ebook Train for Something Greater. The View From The Floor CrossFitters have much in common: language (WOD, AMRAP, Pukie), diet (Paleo-Zone-Primal), apparel (Lulu, Vibram, Inov-8), and philosophy (pain is weakness leaving the body). Before we started talking, eating, dressing, and thinking alike, we shared a common experience: we [...]

I Birthed A Book!

My labor of love finally gave birth to a book! Which reminds me of an old joke:  They say that writing a book is similar to giving birth, but it’s not. Books have edges. What does that joke and the publishing industry have in common? Both are being rendered obsolete by ebooks! (Not really or [...]

Just Released: Train For Something Greater

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From Amazon.com: Why can’t church be more like CrossFit? What if Christ-Followers pursued spiritual fitness with the same tenacity and intensity with which CrossFitters pursue physical fitness? What would it look like to take CrossFit principles and insights and apply them to training for Christ-likeness? These are the questions that spawned the book you’re about [...]