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Legion Strength & Conditioning Podcast

Aug 31, 2020

Tight shoulders? Difficulty getting overhead for squat snatches and overhead squats? Struggling with handstand push-ups or handstand walking?

The market in fitness wants to sell you a simple solution.

You can’t get overhead because your muscles are “tight.”

What do you do with a tight muscle? You loosen it!

You...


Aug 17, 2020

Testing protocols are huge in the sport of CrossFit.

Since we have so many things we can measure, we always want to know “how we are doing as athletes.”

Still, as we’ve discussed many times on the podcast, the relationship between testing results and performance in events that we care about is often looser than...


Aug 3, 2020

Yearly training plans are often built around competition schedules.

Even casual athletes who just enjoy participating in local events will usually have a few events that they plan their years around. For some, that’s the Open and a few local competitions.

For others, that used to be Regionals and is now...