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Growing Healthy Habits

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Heading into lockdown 3.0 at CrossFit Leyland we decided to introduce a weekly team challenge for several reasons; to rally our members together to support each other to raise awareness of current habits and reinforce healthy habits to provide greater accountability on a daily / weekly basis Having gone through several months of lockdown over...
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CrossFit During Pregnancy

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CrossFit Leyland is no stranger to newborns amongst our community, with many of our female members continuing to enjoy Crossfit throughout pregnancy and returning soon after giving birth. Our coaches have become more adept over the years at scaling workouts for female members at different stages of pregnancy. CFL co-owner and coach, Gina Turner, actually...
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Be like mike

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Today marks the 60th birthday of the late, great Mike Redshaw, CFL legend and someone that will be sorely missed and remembered by many. It still seems surreal that Mike passed so suddenly and without warning, something that many of us who knew him well have really struggled to come to terms with. Mike passed...
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Find your tribe

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We’ve previously published a blog highlighting a variety of reasons that some of our members choose to CrossFit and the life changing impact that their CrossFit journey has had upon them.  You can read more here > https://www.crossfitleyland.co.uk/why-do-you-crossfit/.  In this blog, we delve into the importance of finding a gym / ‘box’ / fitness community...
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Improvise. Adapt. Overcome.

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In this blog, we catch up with two of our members who have not been phased by lockdown and have clearly embodied the military ethos of IMPROVISE, ADAPT and OVERCOME. Partners Carl and Cirsty Spencer have been members at CrossFit Leyland since October 2019 and since joining have really embraced the CFL community and taken...
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Essential Running Tips

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Following the closure of gyms last month, many people have taken the opportunity to do more running as part of their daily exercise routine. With that in mind, we thought it would be useful to compile some top tips for improving running technique, to help reduce the likelihood of injury and improve efficiency. Head, Shoulders,...
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Stronger Together

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This year marks the 20th anniversary of the inception of CrossFit! The number of people following CrossFit programmes in the UK has steadily grown over the past 10 years, when CrossFit Leyland opened in 2012 there were approximately FIFTY CrossFit boxes in the UK, whereas today there are over FIVE HUNDRED. What started out as...
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All Star Games

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This Sunday (5th April, 2020) was set to be the 6th annual All Star Games at CrossFit Leyland. Always popular with our members, the All Star Games was established as an opportunity for the CFL community to get together, have fun and put their fitness and skills to the test. Over the years the event...
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Find the key during lockdown

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It's been SEVEN DAYS since we shut our doors at CFL, no doubt there are a few of you starting to go stir crazy and climbing the walls (That's why we want to keep you as active as possible with our daily home workouts and LIVE ZOOM classes!). "This train don't stop!". During that time...
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