Dec 21, 2020
As athletes improve in the sport of fitness, their weaknesses become obvious and apparent to them.
“Man, I really struggled on those handstand push-ups.”
“My weightlifting numbers just aren’t up to snuff.”
Driven athletes home in on their weaknesses and will want to work on them obsessively.
However,...
Dec 7, 2020
Intensity and volume reign in the competitive fitness landscape.
While debates go back and forth about which is more effective for adaptation (Hint: It depends), very few people are asking whether they should just stop training when they still have something left in the tank.
In fact, many athletes who we coach often...
Nov 23, 2020
We’ve got another episode with Sergio going deep on the metabolism of lactate—and its underrate role as a signaling molecule and a preferential fuel source for many internal organs.
In this episode of Science with Sergio, we review some of the highlights for performance-based athletes in George Brooks’s extensive...
Nov 9, 2020
Like everyone else in the CrossFit world, all of the Legion coaches wasted at least a few hours a few weekends ago streaming the CrossFit Games instead of doing whatever work we should have been doing.
And, like everyone else in the CrossFit world, we all each have some opinions on the programming and the testing—some...
Oct 26, 2020
And now, for a new segment on the Legion podcast: “Science with Sergio”
Lots of CrossFitters talk about lactate or “lactic acid,” like joggers from the 1970s—saying things like “my legs were burning with lactic acid” or “my lat are so sore from the lattice acid from that workout yesterday.”
Our...