By Khan Porter
There’s a reason we call Stu ‘The Whippet’. He’s a sprightly fellow, however, hopefully not for much longer.

After doing CrossFit for the last six months Stu’s become so lean that ocean swimming (a favourite pass time of his) has become more like taking an ice bath and each session is getting notably shorter due to the poor Stu being unbearably cold.

So in this edition of 180 seconds or less, we join Khan and Stu on the couch and chat about Stu’s new dietary and strength training endeavor, in which he’s looking to put his days of Whippetry behind him and become more of a Rottweiler, or better yet Great Dane.

The diet is based on the “Bigger Smaller Bigger” plan, put together by fitness and nutrition experts Dr John Beradi, Martin Rooney and Nate Green. They claim it helped Green pack on a massive 20lbs in 28 days, so we’re looking forward to seeing what it does for Stu!

By 180 Nutrition

Snatch The CrossFit Monkey idolises his fellow 180 Nutrition sponsored athletes. After seeing the Australian CrossFit champion Chad Mackay squat with one arm after shoulder surgery, Snatch wanted to emulate his hero!

After his first workout ‘Fran’ being a very impressive 2 minutes 34 seconds, Snatch’s confidence his high. With wild instincts coursing through his veins being fresh out of the jungle, we still feel we need to keep his ego in check and improve his table manners…

You can follow Snatch’s journey to the 2013 CrossFit Games here.

By Guy Lawrence

Mate: So you can actually compete against each other in CrossFit?

Me: Yep…Pretty cool hey!

Mate: So what exactly will you be doing?

Me: Well, I’m not really sure. But somewhere along the lines of running, jumping, throwing weights around…You know, the usual…

Mate: Umm, that’s about as clear as mud.

So what is CrossFit? This is a question I get asked often. After my competition last weekend the question I get now is…Well what’s this CrossFit competition thing you did then?

I’m still trying to answer both so I thought I’d put this post together.

If you have been following my crossfit journey, a few months back I mentioned that my coach Cassie had entered myself and Stu into our first CrossFit competition at CrossFit Feel Good in Sydney. Well that day had finally come.  Continue reading →

By Guy Lawrence

What is CrossFit? I’m still struggling with this question when I get asked. But when I tell people the first thing I do in the morning is check the CrossFit Bare website to see what today’s WOD is, I usually get two responses that go something like this:

1. Uh? Don’t you think that’s a little obsessive? What’s wrong with you mun!
2. Wow…Really! What’s a WOD? Tell me more…

This post is dedicated to the latter…

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