Let's get it started

Four friends getting familiar with CrossFit fundamentals together.

Bag-o-fun

One-mile 170-pound team sandbag carry.

Heels over head

Christine practices hand balancing.

Working inverted develops a bunch of the core elements of true fitness--strength, agility, flexibility, coordination, and balance—as well as a lot of more unusual but equally important abilities: spatial awareness, body control, trunk stability, wrist flexibility and strength, and tolerance for inversion itself, to name a few. Plus it’s just plain fun.

When was the last time you did a handstand?

Saddle up

CrossFit Eastsiders Nick Abbott (pictured) and Volker Rosendahl recently completed the seven-day BC Bike Race from Victoria to Whistler, British Columbia.

CrossFit Games 2008

Two of our Seattle-area CrossFitters, Jeralee Anderson and Justin Clark, are on their way to this weekend's 2008 CrossFit Games in Aromas, California.

J & J,

You both have worked hard become stronger, fitter, and more capable than when you started your journey to the Games. Approach your events this weekend like all your training sessions up to this point: embrace the unknown and the difficult and trust yourself. Dream big, learn as much as you can, and, above all, enjoy the experience.

We have had the pleasure of coaching your growth over the last weeks and months. Thank you for letting us all be part of chasing your goals and ambitions.

Sincerely,
Your CFES fan club

Final lap

A beautiful day for an outside row/run workout.

Waste management

CrossFit: decreasing lactate intolerance worldwide.

Beyond crunches

Glute-ham developer wall-ball sit-up

Each rep begins from a seated position on the glute-ham developer under the wall-ball target. The ball is lowered back, with arms overhead, until it touches the ground. With the snap of the knees and powerful flexion of the hip that characterize the glute-ham sit-up, the ball is launched to the target and then rebounds back into the athlete's hands, ready for the next rep.