Athlete Spotlight Trenton has been a member with us for about two years now and has seen some awesome results. He makes time for the gym three or four days a week at least, all while working shift work as an operator. He is young but he knows what hard work is and it is paying off for him big time. Congrats on everything Trenton! Keep up the good work! -Richard   First Name & Last Initial Trenton H   Home Town Mont Belvieu   Age 23   Occupation Operator   When did you first start CrossFitting? July 2016   When did you first start training at BayWay CrossFit? July 2016   Favorite WOD Anything with Double Unders or Box Jumps   Least Favorite WOD Thrusters or Wallballs   Tell us about your sports & fitness background? I Played Little League Baseball when I was younger, and then in High...Read more

Over the last few months, I have seen significant growth in the number of people in my life making a switch to a plant-based diet. Two people close to me made a switch because of some health issues, and it has been really good for them, life-saving even. Some of the basic concepts of a plant-based diet is eating whole foods like vegetables, fruits, and grains while avoiding meat and highly processed foods. By doing this, you reduce inflammation in the body by detoxing it from a cellular level. In many cases, this is the reason people switch to a plant-based diet. However, is this a diet for someone who does not need it for significant health, medical or moral reasons?   Self admittedly, I did not know much about the Plant-Based diet before this, and the desire to know more is the reason for this blog. As I read...Read more

Athlete Spotlight:   First Name & Last Initial: Miriany H.   Home Town: Beach City, TX     Age: 38   Occupation: Real estate management/investor   When did you first start CrossFitting? March 23, 2016   When did you first start training at BayWay CrossFit? March 23, 2016   Favorite WOD: It’s hard to narrow that down but if I had to chose I would say handstand push-ups, burpees, anything shoulder to overhead.   Least Favorite WOD: Double Unders!! I have a love-hate relationship with the jump rope.   Tell us about your sports & fitness background? I didn’t have the luxury of playing sports growing up, but I did play volleyball through HS. My love for fitness started with running and being just a regular gym rat. I used to run 13 miles at a time without a problem and would spend about 2 hours at the gym not getting...Read more

CrossFit attracts a particular type of person. They are usually self-motivated, goal oriented and a hard worker. These are all traits of successful people, and working with 125+ generally successful people usually means you have a gym full of people who are used to excelling at things, but what happens when they don’t? CrossFit is a fitness program that combines aspects from all fitness regimens. Some of these include simple movements like running or biking, but it also includes complicated Olympic level movements like the snatch, handstands and ring work. All of these movements (including the simple ones) require practice and a lot of it. Malcolm Gladwell wrote in his book, Outliers, that “exceptional expertise requires at least 10,000 hours of practice.” That is a lot of practice! As an example in the CrossFit world let’s use butterfly pull-ups for Gladwell’s rule. If you only came to the class that...Read more

Let’s talk about the glorious and powerful booty… other than being the easiest way to distract someone, the booty is often underdeveloped, undertrained, and underutilized. The glutes, (glute medius, minimus, and maximus) are the largest and strongest muscles of the body that are used together to abduct, rotate, and extend the hips. But let’s face it, most people just do not know how to use those all-powerful buns. Many people cannot even correctly fire their glutes without first undergoing some teaching or simple activation. Many people who spend the majority of their day sitting down do not utilize those muscles. So why are our posteriors so inactive? There are numerous reasons but quite simply put; it is because people do not use them due to their lifestyles (IE sitting down for most of the day) or just inactive due to poor mechanics. So what made you make a blog about...Read more