JOIN THE #800gCHALLENGE®   WHAT IS IT? The #800gChallenge was designed by OptimizeMe Nutrition. Eat 800 grams (g) of fruits and/or vegetables, by weight, per day.  No foods are eliminated, but only fruits and veggies count toward the 800g. Eat the fruits and veggies of your choice. Hit the macros you want. Raw, cooked, canned, frozen; doesn’t matter!  If you can weigh it as a standalone and unprocessed fruit or vegetable, you can count it. Yep, that’s it! Here’s a one-sheet with all the rules. So why 800g? It’s associated with increased health and is a simplified way to hit those recommended servings of fruits and vegetables. Read morehere. There are prizes, but if you follow this strictly, the true prize will be health, and increasing your chances of fighting off illnesses. DATES May 11-June 7th SIGN-UP You can register HERE ***Anyone can participate but you must have an active...

This week will make week three of no gym, and I am very impressed with everyone with their home workouts. I have written blogs and done videos on why home gyms do not work for CrossFit, and I stand by that. We see videos of people like Matt Fraser and Josh Bridges killing it in their garage, and we think we can do that too, but we forget that they are the fittest on earth and have a reason to wake up every day and ‘Pay the Man’ in their garage. All of us mortals exercise for general health, and not to be the fittest on earth. I always tell my personal story from when I was a member of a CrossFit Deer Park back in 2011. I didn’t have much money and was paying the monthly membership for classes, but I thought I could do it on my own....

Here in Texas, we are going into our second week of “Stay At Home,” and its clear most of us are going a little stir crazy. Many of us use the gym as a get-away or stress relief, even if going to the gym means twenty minutes on a cardio machine and aimless wondering for the next forty. Most people are trying to get into running to stay fit, and I respect that, but it isn’t something that many of us would look forward to daily. Others are searching social media for at-home workouts posted by influencers, but its week two or three of bodyweight squats, pushups, situps, and we are bored. Most everyone has to change their style of exercise to stay fit, but not CrossFitters. A good CrossFit gym is keeping its members fit by staying in constant contact with their members and keeping them engaged, customizing workouts,...