When one thinks about athletic competition, they usually think about it’s physical elements rather than the mental and emotional component. While strength, speed, and power are important to success in competitive endeavours, one must not forget how vital mindset training is to the competitive process.

la, each of whom pays $75 Euros a month for a training program and monthly lifestyle consults with Costa. Though Costa says he has room to take on a few more clients, he’s now in the process of looking to hire a coach to help him handle the volume.

Matt is a husband and and father, looking to make consistent progress and increase his standings in the OPEN each year.

In this weeks 10 Minutes of Fitness James FitzGerald and Micheal Pilhofer discuss James’ newest course, Mixed Modal. You can watch the full episode for yourself here.

Planning is something that we at OPEX pride ourselves on. It is what creates the pathway to success for anyone to reach there full potential and fitness goals.

Robin Lyons breakdown from consult, assessment to prescription when starting a new client….

While the ‘open gym’ model technically does exist through globo gym models, such as a Gold’s Gym, 24-Hour Fitness, or YMCA, there is undoubtedly a difference in the style of training and equipment available at these mega-gyms versus your raw, box setting or functional fitness style gym (think rubber mats, pull-up rigs, squat racks, bumper plates, boxes, air-dynes, rowing machines, rings, kettlebells, wallballs, Oly lifting bars, etc.).

Pacing the floor, back and forth, to ensure safety, remind Enrique to catch the bar with ‘fast elbows’, remind Alyssa to squat “all the way down”, and assist Barbara with donning her foot into the big thick green pull-up band on the pull-up bar, but all in all, the chaos ensues to say the least.

What struck me once again is how many coaches there are out there who want to learn and grow so they can best serve their clients.  They come to our courses and hear a lot of new thoughts, ideas, and principles.  They engaged in coaching practices, communication and brainstorming sessions in order to expand their perspectives and learn from one another.  And what they tell me at the end of the course is that they are fundamentally changed, their eyes have been opened to the nuances of people and the differences that exist between us all.  Their coaching bandwidth has been expanded because their capacity to coach a variety of people has been stretched.

Routine is a part of life—particularly if your fitness and exercise regime is important to you.

Madi Glass is a high school Onsite Coaching Client here in Scottsdale.  She is coached by Head Coach Michael Bann.  Her priorities are a linear progression in basic barbell lifts with unilateral work for accessory training

Miko’s training initial training focus has been on addressing some underlying structural issues that led to a minor back injury earlier in the year. As these continue to improve we’re starting to incorporate more barbell work and technique focus into his training.

“At this time of year, athletes only really need to focus on refining skills in relation to the competition they are going into. Too many athletes tend to overcomplicate their training in the hopes of improving. The reality is that athletes don’t get tremendously better between the Open and the Regional Competition.”

Tennil will be tackling 18.3 in her morning session at OPEX North Scottsdale.

Whether you are an athlete, a business owner, or somebody looking for health and fulfillment there becomes a time when you must go through discomfort.  That discomfort can come in many forms:

The 2018 CrossFit Open was slated to be a rather routine and uneventful step for OPEX Sponsored Athlete Austin O’Neal on his path to the South-West Regionals and ultimately, the CrossFit Games. In fact, much of his training was focused on the regionals competition rather than the Open. However, that all changed during the second workout of the 2018 CrossFit Open, 18.2.

Every year, Zen Planner produces a financial report compiled from surveys of all of the gyms in their Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system. Information such as member size, rent expense, number of instructors, and types of classes offered is compiled and analyzed to benefit their community and the fitness industry as a whole. We can learn a great deal about the fitness industry, how to run a gym, and how to determine what success means by taking a look at this report.

Pacing, or tempo training, has been around for as long as we can remember. However, how do you incorporate tempo training while using mixed modal training? James Fitzgerald talks through how to build aerobic endurance and how to attack a mixed modal workout while using pacing throughout.

First things first, it’s important to define what exactly ‘Paleo’ means when you ask the question, because depending on who you talk to, you may get conflicting points of view.

When you’re thinking about quality of service, you have to think about what exact experience you want your clients to have. If you don’t know what you want them to do, feel, think on a daily basis when their thinking about their training or when they’re doing their workouts in the gym, you won’ t create it. You first have to map out the experience you want.