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Keeping it Real with Nyree and Fiona — 211 episodes

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Fitness and Mental Health

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⏰How to Make Time for Fitness

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Don't Settle for Mediocre! How Fitness Defies Being Average💥💣

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🤔What's Your Definition of Fitness?

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🥩Has the Protein Trend Jumped the Shark?

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🏋️‍♀️The Elements of a Great Strength Workout

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👉Prepping For the 2027 Open - Our Tips to Improve Your Performance

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🏋️‍♀️Strong Women, Strong Futures!

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💥Another Open is Done! Our Recap of a Fun Few Weeks💣

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🍒🥑Habit Stacking Challenge Recap

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🔥26.1 is Done! The Wine and Beer-fueled Recap!🍷🍺

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💥And the Chaos Begins! Our Version of the CrossFit Open Starts Now.

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🎖️The Surprisingly Un-Clean Eating Habits of Olympic Athletes

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♥Feeling the "Love" from a Workout? How to Ease Muscle Soreness.

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❄Snow Shoveling For Time - How to Safely Crush Winter's Ultimate Workout

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📢The Scale is Lying - There are Better Ways to Measure Fitness Progress!

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The Smart Shopper: Comparing Coaching Gyms and 24hr Access Gyms

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Our Go-to Healthy Habits

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The Most Challenging Workouts of 2025 - Our Picks🤣

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🙌Why CrossFit is for Beginners.

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🎅Holiday Weight Gain Got You Feeling Santa-sized?

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🪙🥫How to Eat Healthy on a Budget

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🤢Unhealthy Foods from Childhood that Make You Go "Ew!" Now

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Are Supplements Like Boost Good In a Pinch?

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😷How to Stay Healthy This Cold & Flu Season

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Willpower is a finite resource. 💥Build systems for success.

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🤣The GRCF Amazing Race - Recap!

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Reframe - The Alcohol Mindfulness App

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Mirror, Mirror Not on the Wall...

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🍒Why Cherry Picking Your Workouts Hinders Your Fitness

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Coaching the Coaches - Greg & Nyree's Level 2 Recert

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🏋️The Biggest Mistakes CrossFitters Make

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🤔What's the First to Go? Endurance or Strength

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🏋️‍♀️Not feeling strong lately? We do a deep dive on why you may not be feeling strong.

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When Your Femoral Nerve Goes Wonky - Fiona's Story

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Would You Rather? Oh, we are going there!🤣🤣

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Programming for Goals: General Fitness vs Competition vs Specialty

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🏋️‍♀️💪Things that May Impact Your Gainz!

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🔥🥵Working Out in the Heat - Our Top Tips!

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🥳It's Time to Celebrate What Our Bodies Can Do

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Cycle Syncing. It is a Thing and Should You Do It?🤷‍♀️

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🚀Women + Barbells = AWESOMENESS

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Never Buy a Diet Book Again!

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🏋️Pain or Progress - How to Tell the Difference

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🍕🍔You Can't Out-Train a Bad Diet - The Research is In!

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🤩You CAN Start CrossFit After 40!

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🏋️What Heavy Means in Real Life - Function Over Fear

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🤩1% Better Every Day

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Do Accessory Exercises Help or Hinder Your CrossFit Performance?

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How to Improve Your CrossFit Open Performance

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2025 Open Recap -- The Good, the Logistically Challenging and the AWESOME🤩

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Taking a break!

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🐻How to Combat Winter Weight Gain

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🍽How You Eat is Just Important as What You Eat

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💤Maximizing Your Recovery

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🤧Cold and Flu Season Survival Tips

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Understanding the Process - How to Beat "Quitter's Day"

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GLP-1 Drugs and Gyms can Co-exist!

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Fitness Influencers are Not Fitness Reality!

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🎉🥂Our Take on New Year's Resolutions

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😂😂CrossFit Hang-ups

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🎄🍰Enjoy Whatever You Want This Christmas!

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The Health Benefits of Breaking From Routine

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🌟2024 Row-a-Thon Recap!

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🎖Fit to Serve

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⏰💤Time Change, Sleep and Your Health

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What Are You Training For?

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The Fitness Demands of Different Jobs

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⏲How to Eat Healthy When You're Busy

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🍺🍷Are Low Carb Alcoholic Beverages a Healthier Option?

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🔥A NEAT Way to Burn Calories

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🤣🏃‍♂️The GRCF Amazing Race Recap!

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🧠🥦Foods for Brain Health

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🧠6 Things You Can do to Improve Brain Health

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Ugh! Another "Artificial Sweeteners Will Kill You" Study☠☠

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Ugh! Another "Meat is Bad" Study!

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🏃‍♂️Running! Love It or Hate It? We share our experiences.

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✈🏝Getting Back on Track with Your Fitness After Vacation

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"What's with you and funnel cakes?" - 2nd highest rated episode

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First Ever Row - a - Thon Replay - from November 2021 / Vacation episode.

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The Carnivore Diet - Not for Everyone...

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What is the Best Water to Drink?

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😱Don't Fear Processed Foods!

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🧁🍇Things You THINK May Cause Weight Gain, But Don't!

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The Rx'd Debate

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💪Reps For Strength, Size and Endurance. What's the Difference?

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🍔🥩How to Survive BBQ Season

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Our First Outdoor Venue! - Episode 112

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Why We 💖the Whiteboard

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🍽Why Meal Plans Don't Work - We Offer a Better Way to Master Healthy Eating!

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🍴Hunger vs Appetite. How to Tell the Difference.

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Is Carb Loading Still a Thing? Our Pre-Race Nutrition Strategy.

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🥛Liquid Calories - The Good, The Bad and the Don't You Ever!

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💪The Benefits of Squats!

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🏋️‍♀️Strength Training After 40 - What You Need to Know!

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What Almost Everyone Gets Wrong About Weight Loss - And How to Get It Right!

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Training and the Aging Athlete

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😡The 2024 Open Workout That Messed Greg Up - The TMI Edition

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🏋️‍♂️💪The 2024 Open So Far - Our Recap of the Action!

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🔥CrossFit Open 24.1 - Highlights From the First Event!

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🤒That ONE Time Coach Nyree Got the Flu

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📢2024 GRCF Open Intramurals Teams Announcement!

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🚀The 2024 GRCF Open Intramurals Are Coming Soon!

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💪Bouncing Back from Bad Workouts

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🤔How Long Does It Take For CrossFit Moves to Feel Natural?

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One Day or Day One?

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⏲The "I Have No Time to Exercise' Excuse BUSTED!

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The Pros and Cons of Fitness Trackers

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🌟How to Make Your 2024 Awesome!🌟

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🎄🎁Christmas Gift Ideas for the CrossFit Enthusiast

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👟If The CrossFit Shoe Fits....

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💪Start Now! Don't Wait Until January 1st to Get Fit.

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💖Our 3rd Annual Row-a-Thon Was a Huge Success!

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💊Low Grade Chronic Inflammation - The New Health Normal That Shouldn't Be

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🥗🥙How to Dine Out and Eat Healthy

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💤Time Change, Sleep and Your Health

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👻Tapeworms for Weight Loss Anyone? The Hallowe'en Edition.

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Elite Athletes, Pregnancy and Fitness For Mere Mortals

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Balance is a Myth!

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🤧Snatiation - It's a Thing!

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😡Negative Emotions and Exercise

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👴👵Live to 100 - The Must Watch Netflix Docuseries

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🔁Workout Do Overs! Repeat, Improve and Do It Again!

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🚀The CrossFit Certification Experience

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🏋️‍♀️Why Women Love CrossFit💪

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Coaching Within - and Beyond - Your Limits🚀

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🤔How Greg and Nyree Got Into CrossFit - A Chat GPT "Interview"

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🏋️‍♀️CrossFit and the Older Athlete

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Excuses! Excuses! 🤷‍♀️

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🚀Coaching = Success!

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💣How to Sabotage Your Metabolism

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🍳🥗Does Stuffing Your Face Late at Night Cause Weight Gain?

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🤕Working Out With Injuries - We Share Our Personal Experience

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🧠Exercise For Your Cognitive Health🏋️‍♀️

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🍰Deadlifts & Desserts - The Delicious Recap!

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😩Workout Anxiety!

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Functional Fitness - Workouts For Real Life!

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📢You Don't Need to Be Fit to Do CrossFit!

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🏋️‍♀️🌟The Most Important Piece of Fitness Equipment EVER!

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🚀🏋️‍♀️PRs are AWESOME!

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🎂Is it a Treat...Or Is it A Cheat?

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Sneaky Signs You Have a Weak Core

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Technique ➡Consistency ➡Intensity

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You Don't Need More Cardio‼

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💪We LOVE Deadlifts! And You Should Too!

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👩👨🧓It's About the Community!

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Why We 💖Barbells!

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🧂Pass on the Salt! How to Keep Your Sodium Intake in Check.

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🏋️‍♀️The Highlight Reel - 2023 CrossFit Open

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🙌2023 Open Recap! Inspiring Moments and Triumphs.

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Fitness Through the Ages. Make It a Priority Now!

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😎Random CrossFit Open Trivia!

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🍷🍺About that Booze Study...

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💪Creatine - What is It and Why You Need It

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You Don't Need Supplements - Most of the Time!

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🙌Failure is a GOOD Thing!

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📆A Better Way to Do New Year's Resolutions🎉

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🍅🥑Eating Healthy on a Budget and Keeping Those Veggies Fresh

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How Do You Eat Your Pop-Tarts?🤣

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🌟Our 2nd Annual Row-a-Thon Was a HUGE Success! The Recap Edition.

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🏋️‍♀️Free Weights vs. Machines. Which is better?

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🤧Achoo! Working Out When Illness Strikes.

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🚀How to Get Awesome Results from CrossFit

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👻🎃Scary CrossFit Workouts!

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🤣🤣Funnell Cakes!🤣🤣

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🤔CrossFit Lingo - A Brief Glossary of Workout Words (Not 🤬 Words!)

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🎉It's Our 12th CrossFit Affiliate Anniversary!🎉

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☠Sneaky Ultra-Processed Foods. What you need to ditch now!

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🏋️‍♀️What is Fitness? Let's just say the definition is a uniquely individual thing!

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Virtuosity - Doing the Common Uncommonly Well

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Pre- and Post-Workout Nutrition. Which is More Important?

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How to Stave Off Muscle Soreness with Active Recovery

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🏋️‍♀️ Are You Chasing the Rx'd with Poor Technique?

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💤Rest Days! How do you know when you need one?

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🤣Plan B. Because Life Happens!

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Veteran members - what keeps them coming back...

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Liquid Calories - where do they lurk?

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😱Don't Fear Fat!

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🍆🥑Bacon-Wrapped Veggies and Smart Carbohydrates🥣🍞

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🍗Mmm...Protein! Peanut Butter is NOT Protein and other myths busted.

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Eating S-L-O-W-L-Y ⏱ It's WAY Harder Than You Think!

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The Fabled Chip Cabinet 🤷‍♀️🤣

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🍅Nutrition Challenge Week One - Fiona Shares her Experience So Far!

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Age Is Just A Number! How Our Seniors Inspire Us🏋️‍♀️

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📣Announcing the Back to Basics Nutrition Challenge!

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🤣CrossFit Math is Hard!

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⭐It's All About Connection!

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Lifting Belts, Weight Lifting Shoes and Wrist Wraps. Do you need them?

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2022 CrossFit Open Wrap Up - Member Interviews and more!

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🏋️‍♀️🌟22.2 Live on Location! -- Member Interviews and More!

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22.2 - The After Show!

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🤣Let The Games Begin!

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Resolutions Reality Check - How to Not Be a Quitter!

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📣Are the CrossFit Games going to be same without Dave Castro? We weigh in!

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Which Team Will Be The Fastest? Our first ever Row-a-Thon starts tomorrow!

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Mindfulness and Staying Healthy During the Pandemic

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Do you need a fitness goal?

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Even your brain needs a break!

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Fail Small! How to get back on track with your health and fitness goals faster.

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WOD Blindness! The Struggle is Real🤣

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What's Your Fast Food Kryptonite?

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Strategies to get through the tough workouts.

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Worst workouts! We have a few fine choices!

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CrossFit and why women in their 40’s and 50’s love it.

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The Challenge of At Home Workouts with Fiona Alford

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Structure = Freedom

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January Insanity!

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Keeping up with your fitness when life changes.

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The Power of Eating Slowly

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You gotta keep going!

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You just gotta start!