Melissa Pruett is an Onsite Coaching Client here in Scottsdale, coached by Head Coach Michael Bann. Her priorities are to get stronger but primarily pure aesthetics based training.

The shorter a workout is, the longer you have to warm-up. You don’t want to attempt this workout without warming up. 18.2/18.2a is a very physically demanding, fast, and painful workout. If you haven’t warmed up properly your body will crash very quickly with massive lactate build up from which you will not recover quickly.

“You can’t drag people from understanding to action. A  customer isn’t actually at the last mile if you’re the one dragging them to the finish line.”

Inaki Roza, the owner of OPEX Condensa in Mexico City, has been an athlete, a coach, and a gym owner. Now he is a mentor and an example of what others can achieve if have the patience and the will to succeed.

In this last block of training Abby has been working on receiving the bar in the catch. Most faults come from her getting soft shoulders or not finishing her pull in the extension. This video shows Abby hitting a 140# snatch. Abby is coached by OPEX HQ Head Coach Brian Foley.

What I enjoyed most about 18.2 + 18.2A is that it involved a little bit of everything. This workout required the athlete to put up a relatively high power output in fast contractions of both the burpee and the squat, and throw up a huge clean number in a very short amount of time. The volume was fairly minimal, only 55 reps in total of both the dumbbell squat and the burpee.

Wimbledon, Pan Am Games, Women’s Football World Cup, Tour De France….and the CrossFit Games.

A coach training a client or athlete—or several—and the trainees are struggling…big time.

2. Each fraction knocks away 3-10 seconds; it adds up; mid-level-and-above folks need to consider not fractioning lunges while taking one quick break on power cleans

Need some help jumpstarting your training in preparation for the next CrossFit competitive season? Our very own Mike Lee will provide some answers and tips for athletes and competitors.

A big reason nutrition is so interesting is because the opinions and information on the topic varies greatly.

The temps are in the 100s without fail, and we are more than thankful for air condition during training sessions.

Many failing gyms lose confidence in their business and adopt a discount strategy to entice potential customers. Though this strategy initially yields more clients, in the long run it can cause a dramatic fall in client retention and quality of service. So, what’s the solution?

AM Session – Upp In + Upper Str + Squat + Balance + STrict MU + Strongman

If you own, operate or coach at a gym business, you more than likely have a mission statement and/or vision listed on your website.

Communication is a vitally important component of running a successful business. Perhaps the most important topic you need to master is how to approach communicating change to your staff in a way that clears all confusion and gets them bought into the changes.

As coaches, we are often aware of the fact that we must attune to what it is our clients want out of their training—their goals, the reason they are training, their priorities, their current abilities…ultimately, their why. 

Tennil has just blood flow today as she prepares for the CrossFit Regionals. She will be competing Friday, Saturday and Sunday in the CrossFit South Regionals. Good luck Tennil and all other OPEX Athletes!!

Because the principles of Individual Design inform much of the way in which an OPEX Gym is run. This training methodology is best defined by being more effective than group classes and more engaging than personal training.