Paleo Challengers! Please write your final results on the paleo challenge white board in Southie Green so that we can calculate points, analyze benchmark improvements, and pick a winner!! Please do this by this by Wednesday evening. Winners will be announced on or before Thursday. It gives me great pride to announce that our First [...]

All, as mentioned in last Friday’s post, the culmination of the 5th annual First Responders’ Challenge will be held Saturday 3 March from 10am to 1pm  at Reebok CrossFit ONE in Canton. With 14 teams from local affiliates, this event will be sure to draw an impressive crowd. However, in order to give these first [...]

Erica Saint Clair is running the 2012 Boston Marathon for the Melanoma Foundationin memory of her father Doug Raber who passed away from occular melanoma. As and incentive, Erica is emailing a pdf of her paleo cookbook (which is awesome) to anyone who donates $10 or more to the Melanoma Foundation. All you need to do to [...]

Reduced Schedule on Monday Patriots Day – Morning classes will be held at 6am, 7am. 9am and 11am only.  No 530am, 630am or 730am classes.  There will be a noon class and open gym from 3-5pm.  Night classes will be at 4:30,5:00, 5:30, 6pm and 6:30pm.  Everyone is welcome and encouraged to come to any [...]

Recently, we as a coaching staff have heard many pose a familiar question in regards to those with a 2x/week membership – “what can I do to supplement my CrossFitting outside of my two days a week membership?” First, for those who are able to make it – utilize our Open Gym, Yoga, and Mobility [...]

Don’t forget to sign up for the Paleo Brunch this weekend at Arik’s place.  Click here to register. Also, the Boyson boys are hosting a CFS Super Bowl party. Paleo foods and finga hugs strongly encouraged. The more the merrier. Post to comments if you want in. Who out there has stared at the whiteboard [...]

After ringing in 2012, many new faces have come into CrossFit Southie. With limited time and much practical application and explanation to cover, little space remains to get our nerd on and delve into the science of CrossFit and why we do what we do when it comes to how we program WODs. To start [...]

There is no such thing as a stupid question. However, there is one question pertaining to strength sets I am asked daily that every athlete is responsible for knowing… “What weight should I be using???” Asides from it being an athlete’s first time executing that specific lift (only legitimate excuse for the above question), all [...]

CrossFit Southie, ‘tis the season to be merry: a time for joy, giving thanks, Christmas trees, Oldies 103.3 Christmas music, overly aggressive mall shoppers, movie marathons of Christmas Vacation, A Christmas Story, and Home Alone (1 and 2) on repeat, egg nog, apple pie, college football Bowl Week, and most importantly – charities. While giving [...]

Over the past few weeks many have probably heard my motivating schpeal on weight room safety when we move to the platforms. The reason we take safety so seriously when it comes to strength sets is two-fold: 1. To prevent injuring oneself 2. To prevent injuring another Below you will find the videos on weight [...]