A common question that seems to be making its rounds at the moment is: should endurance athletes be lifting weights and incorporate strength training into their training schedule? I mean, muscle is heavy and will just result in you carrying…
If you had asked me a couple of years ago what my idea of fitness and a beautiful body is, I would’ve said it was running on a treadmill and being skinny". I didn’t go near the weights section of…
So you want to do double unders and move away from Double F#%! dammits. Timing is key and in order to get timing, you need to spend some time with your rope. Before you do that, here is a quick…
Coaches Couch Coaches couch are the ramblings of the CrossFit Ex Animo coaches. Some of the ramblings are based on regular queries from the box and members and some or just great pieces of information the coaches have picked and…
Its November already and the festive season is upon us, its been a year of great things for the gym and we look forward to making 2017 an even better place to train and improve your life 1 hour at…
5 Great tips on how to get coached So you signed up to your local CrossFit affiliate and now you are on your way to being the next Matt Fraser, I am sorry Rich Froning, but we have to celebrate…
This journey to where CrossFit Ex Animo is today has been a rather interesting learning curve. One which I would not have wanted to learn any other way. Opening a Crossfit Box in South Africa has been one of the…
CrossFit Ex Animo: So we have been getting many questions about how our programming works and the methods behind the madness. I think some valid questions coming from our community that is growing from Parkhurst, Sandton and Craighall. I am…
I have been in two minds about getting involved in this debate that is taking center stage over the fitness world. Some of the headlines are media and fitness blogger's way of getting reads and followers and some are very…
The coaches at CrossFit subscribe to the idea that although Crossfit is the foundation of the principles we teach and the structure of our programming we remember that there is a wealth of knowledge out in the world and some…