No, not Manny… MANI! As in Manicure. Virgin Hands We all come to CrossFit with virgin hands. They are nice and smooth. Pure as the driven snow. Then CrossFit puts us through endless bar work – pull ups, toes to bar, knees to elbows… and over the course of a few weeks...

Beast Mode Being tagged in a photo from your CrossFit box is a kinda cool yet funny yet slightly embarrassing phenomenon.  Everyone in your Facebook world gets to see the “bad ass” workouts you do.  Friends, family, and fellow CrossFitters make silly comments like, “Do...

This post is a repost from January, 2011. Since that time we’ve had a lot (A LOT!) of new faces come thru our gym – most of which are with us today.  So here and there I’mma pepper in some of our “ancient” posts for your cranial fornication. Arbel wrote this...

Has anyone seen my goggles?  I left several pair of them at CFSB, and I’m constantly losing them here at LAX. Please return to me if found, so I can burn them. ATTENTION: LAX CrossFit will be closed July 4th, however we will be offering a 10am workout.  Please take note. Get...

Girls. Can’t Live With Em… This post goes out to ALL. Males and females of the CrossFit world.  We ALL know that one girl who’s a complete bitch.  She’s antagonistic, arrogant, and catty.  She’s always looking to break people down.  Everyone has to deal with...

Recipe For Riches Being in the fitness world, you hear of things come and go.  There seems to be a natural evolution to the pump and dump game employed by a lot of fitness “businesses”.  Other industries use similar cycles (finance), but let’s just stick to what we know...

Old News But Good News Especially old cause it accidentally auto-posted when it wasn’t supposed to. BAD EDITOR! This is age old news by now – but Charles Barkley, everyone’s favorite voice on the NBA has committed (on national TV none-the-less) to CrossFit in an effort to get...

My Boring Weekend 2. Almost as good as The Hangover 2. Just not funny at all. And without monkies, trannies, and penis shots.  So I guess not anywhere near as good as The Hangover 2. Which was a subpar movie, in this dude’s opinion. While everyone was up at Mudder I remained home. In my...

Which Came First? You all might recall recently Radio Raheem guest blogged from the 80′s (here) and spoke of Love and Hate.  Just as Love cannot exist without Hate, we find Honor and Respect have an intertwined relationship.  Honor breeds Respect.  Respect begets Honor.  In the...