The Top Pre & Post workout Nutrition Mistakes You want to perform your best. You want to feel strong. You want energy to sustain you through your training session. You want to recover afterwards so your muscles can be repaired, recover and come back stronger. You want to make constant and never ending progress. [...]
A little backstory for you: Pat, 66, reached out for help with her Nutrition about 10 weeks ago. She had done years of shake diets, quick fixes, weight watchers, all to lose weight but gain it back. Wasting countless time and a lot of money. In her first sit down with Coach Shawn she made [...]
I started CrossFit in the summer of 2011 on my own. Fast forward to 2013 I was on a competition floor in Massachusetts with the now 5x Fittest Man on Earth Matthew Fraser. He wasn’t the Fittest Man on Earth yet. He wasn’t even known yet. But even back then you could tell he was [...]
My mom used to do CrossFit. And you couldn't imagine the feeling I got Coaching my mom in group class who after 2 weeks, was wearing high socks and ripped off her tank top during a workout and worked out in her sports bra! She was all in. Juiced up and thriving off the [...]
During COVID lockdown I wanted to try something that had been intriguing me for awhile, intermittent fasting. What is intermittent fasting → it’s an eating pattern [essentially times when you eat and when you don’t eat] It doesn’t focus on what you eat per say but when you eat it. In this respect it’s [...]
If I don’t go grocery shopping, I don’t have food. If I don’t have food, I don’t eat. If I don’t eat, I eventually starve. If I don’t pay my mortgage, I get a notice of default. If I continue to not pay my mortgage the lender will initiate the foreclosure process. Within 6 months [...]
Member Spotlight: Ava, a different kind of teenager What environment would you think could be more difficult for a teenager? High School? or Group CrossFit Class with adults... While Group CrossFit workouts at Railroad CrossFit can be difficult (& scaled to any fitness level) they come with other individuals (a community) who support and encourage you. Not [...]
I once had this core group of friends when I was younger. They spent most of their time here upstate but in the summer down in a beach town in NYC. And man were they party animals. One summer I spent a month down there. I traded working out each day for drinking on the [...]
Do you remember when you were a little kid and you were told these imaginary stories. Maybe they were so vivid, they felt real because you believed them. You may have even added to them. If you’re a parent you probably see this with your own children. The ability to believe what is not real. [...]
I’m going to share something with you, I’ve never told anyone. True vulnerability from my past. At 19 years old when I left for the military I had no idea what I was getting myself into. Adjusting within boot camp was difficult, mentally and emotionally. So much so that I considered quitting. I saw it [...]
