While it looks way more impressive to update social media with a hashtag that says #25-pound-back-squat-personal-best than it is to say #muscle-up-quality-and-efficiency-is-improving, I believe qualitative personal bests are as—or even more important—as quantitative ones.

A friend of mine Mandy Gill posted a video of her doing bar muscle-ups and chest-to-bar pull-ups this morning. 

The accompanying post said: “Comparison steals joy. Wake up every morning proud of how far you've come and how hard you've worked.”

If you’re a competitive CrossFit athlete, ask yourself whether you’re truly helping your affiliate and your community? If you are, awesome! Many do. But if you can relate to the situations in this apology letter, it might be time to look at yourself from an affiliate owner’s perspective.

In the past, due to workouts including T2B or kipping pull-ups, I suffered a lot of blisters, little cuts or completely ripped hands.

I’ve tried a lot of products to protect my hands like sports tape and gloves.

But nothing feels as good as using your bare hands on the barbell or pull-up bar.

Whether your muscle-ups are so good you don't need to false grip, like phenom muscle-upper Alex Schaalo, or you struggle along with the false grip like myself—which often leads to ripped skin on my wrists—a good grip is important when it comes to any ring work, especially big swinging movements like muscle-ups.

When it comes to competition, they're arguably the most successful box in Canada West.

CrossFit Taranis has had athletes at the CrossFit Games every single year since it moved from the ranch to Carson, California in 2010.

When 15.3 was announced, my heart sank.

After 6 years of CrossFit, I’ve finally made it to a place where I’m not scared of 30 double unders. 100 still gasses me like no other. Let alone more than one set of 100...

"CrossFit is torture." We’ve all heard that before.

And I couldn’t agree more with that statement. 

My understanding of why torture works is that it makes a person so uncomfortable—puts them in so much physical pain—that they snap mentally and end up doing things like revealing information they would never otherwise never reveal. When this happens, the torturer wins.

It’s no secret that from the moment Nate Beveridge and Robbie Perovich opened Hybrid Athletics, one of their missions was to produce world-class CrossFit athletes—something they’ve managed to do year-after-year.

My hands are susceptible to ripping. Or maybe it's that my 165 lb. bodyweight makes me have to grip harder, kip harder, and rip harder. Two years ago, my hands would have been an utter MESS after 15.1!