The dust has settled on yet another fantastic CrossFit Open. CrossFit Leyland set a new PR, with 94 of our members signing up to take part in the fun and games and push themselves to their respective limits. It was a testing five weeks, with a few curve balls (in the shape of dumbbells) thrown…
Gymnastics is one of three disciplines incorporated in CrossFit (in addition to Weightlifting and Metabolic Conditioning), providing a seemingly endless number of skills to master and strengths to develop. Similar to the revival that Olympic Weightlifting has experienced over the past decade, gymnastics has also gained a lot of new interest from those who want…
The CrossFit Games Open, or ‘the Open’ as it is more commonly referred to, is the preliminary qualifying stage of the CrossFit Games. It unites CrossFit communities around the world and allows individuals to put their fitness to the test, whilst providing a comparison with the best athletes in the world, other members in your gym…
As we draw a close to 2016, it provides an opportunity to evaluate your progress in the box (gym) over the past 12 months. Did you set some goals at the start of the year? A skill to develop, a strength target, a body composition goal, a time in a benchmark workout, a competition based…
What can you get for £20 these days? I’ll tell you what you can’t usually get… 8 x CrossFit training sessions 1 x t-shirt 1 x training diary Thanks to our fabulous friends at Lancashire Sport Partnership and Sportivate, we have been able to subsidise the cost of the training package above, giving you even…
Since the turn of the Millennium, CrossFit has breathed life into a stagnant fitness industry that was characterised by rows upon rows of seated resistance machines and treadmills in chain gyms around the world. It has challenged the longstanding belief that bodybuilding style training, or plodding along on the treadmill is relevant, appropriate for everyone,…
