Disappointed in Competition?
Disappointed in Competition? James FitzGerald offers perspective Losing a game, getting an injury, not improving your personal record; disappointment is synonymous with competition. As The Open draws...
View ArticleHow To Bring In More Clients
Many small gym owners are at an important crossroads. They aren’t 25 years old any more. They need to grow financially for themselves and their families. They also want to be seen for what they...
View ArticleHow Expectations Kill Performance
Gain the Mental Edge with Fitness Objectives that Build Confidence. Charles Kettering was a master inventor, engineer and business man. Holder of 186 patents, for everything from gasoline to car paint,...
View ArticleCreate Your Gym’s Culture and Seal Your Success
Three simple steps to building a positive culture in your gym. Culture is a shared set of values and perceptions. Playing out across continents, nations, groups, offices and most definitely gyms,...
View ArticleNew CEO for OPEX
Fitness is personal. We live in a fast-paced world that is growing more individualized every day. Some years ago I foresaw this development and made it OPEX’s mission to provide fitness education...
View ArticleAssess Don’t Guess: How To Use The Flywheel Bike in Assessments
How to Use the Flywheel Bike in Assessment Assess don’t guess; that’s the mantra we use to remind coaches of the groundwork necessary to write a solid fitness prescription. One tool used in that...
View ArticleMix It Up: How to Use the Flywheel Bike in Mixed Modal Training
In the late 1980s and early 1990s fitness was revolutionized with the introduction of mixed modal training. Using multiple “modes” or types of movement in training, has the benefit of not only...
View ArticleAll Action, No talk
Five Self-Promotion Tips for the Introverted Coach and Gym Owner It’s a noisy time on the planet. With a plethora of social media platforms to broadcast on, and billions of people broadcasting on them,...
View ArticleQuality Coaching is Eternal
Six tips to finding a coach that fits: Fitness, just as much as fashion experiences fads. As Coaches we’ve been privy to them all, answering questions from our clients on everything from the ab roller...
View ArticleWork Theory & Programming with The Flywheel Bike
If you’ve been following our Flywheel Bike series you’ll know what a versatile, reliable training tool the bike is. But before incorporating it into your client’s program, there’s a few basic work...
View ArticleRise and Shine: “Meat” the Breakfast of Champions
The Meat and Nuts Breakfast and its Benefits You may have heard of Charles Poliquin. Attributed with the success of 17 Olympic medalists, he’s widely considered one of the world’s best strength and...
View ArticleThe Importance of Story in Marketing
A small time team/athlete gets a once in a lifetime chance to compete against a sporting nemesis, but to win must face and overcome fierce external and internal obstacles. Sound familiar? It should....
View ArticleWhat Makes a Champion?
The Five Characteristics that Define Champions Ask anyone in the sport of fitness to name a champion and two come definitively to mind: Rich Fronig and Sara Sigmundsdottir. Ask those same people to...
View ArticleThoughts on Leadership
How to Lead as a Learner Leaders; the best ones have the character, position and vision to energize their followers and make the world, or at least work, a better place. Right? Well, not quite. Or at...
View ArticleAce the Assessment
How to Up-Level Your Programming Through OPEX Assessment The assessment of a client’s fitness is what separates professional coaches from amateurs. A coach needs the concrete data collected from an...
View ArticleSchedule Your Success
Why a Calendar is a Critical Business Tool Just as the body and mind thrive on rhythm, so too does your business... When was the last time you scheduled an important meeting? A business project? A...
View ArticleSunday at Regionals: Discover What You’re Really Capable Of
The Story of an OPEX T-Shirt Sunday: after Saturday and before Monday, it’s the day of the week associated with rest. Not so, of course, if you’re a CrossFit Regionals’ Athlete. As the final day of the...
View ArticleWhy Compete?
Three Regionals Athletes Reflect... Whether at work, in school or on the playing field: competition is inescapable. The desire to be better than the next person is so prevalent, in fact, that it seems...
View ArticleThe Importance of Individual Program Design
Promoting a Healthy Relationship with Fitness Many coaches rely on training templates for their clients. While this may ease the coach’s workload, it significantly impedes the client’s physical...
View ArticleTennil Reed – The Balance of A Champion
Tennil Reed went to San Antonio with one goal in mind...to win the CrossFit Games Regional Competition. Everything about her demeanor in the starting gates on Friday said "I am here with purpose." She...
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