Safe Suffering

Lina Dickinson, co-founder of Mer-Sea & Co., a lifestyle brand based here in Kansas City shares her story of taking an idea from a home office to now working with national brands such as Anthropology and Tommy Bahama. She inspires with her positive attitude and the fact that she did all this with 4 young children.

We’re often asked “Is this CrossFIt thing a fad?” Invariably, our answer is YES. But it is only a fad in that we’ll continue to pursue what is best for our clients as it relates to programming, equipment and getting them results. These things change overtime as we learn better methods for applying the craft and CrossFit gives us the freedom to operate in any way we see fit. The important part of C...

We had the pleasure of sitting down with Lene Yeo and learning about her fight with cancer and how it affected not only her, but her family and entire support system. She credits her community with helping her through the most difficult times and giving her a new perspective now 11 years on the other side of being cancer free.

In modern life, we spend a lot of time looking forward at our phones, computers, etc. In this episode, we talk about how to improve your shoulder stability, and therefore reducing pain in the shoulder, by using a device called a pec stick. Not to mention it’s now pool season and everyone wants to work on their ‘bod’ a bit...the peck stick might be your answer!

This week we dig into a simple, yet incredibly important topic, in Hydration. It's a tool most of us realize needs to be taken seriously yet falls by the wayside when we get busy. We share the WHY behind being hydrated and HOW you can take some simple steps to ensure you're doing what needs to be done so you can improve the quality of your skin, get better in the gym, and be able to own the heat t...

As much as we'd like to disagree, more is not always better. This week we do a short-form podcast to help explain our new 25 minutes FIT program and the benefits short, intense training has on your health and ultimately your results. We started this program a couple of months ago to accomplish three things, 1) Provide a tough workout, 2) Create intensity WITH safety in doing simple movements that...

This week is a special episode as we get to sit down with an inspiring person in Drew Komenda as he shares a story many of us would potentially work to keep out of the public eye. Drew has a battle with alcoholism and is now over 10 years sober in that fight and is an inspiration to the rest of us who want to live a happy, healthy and fun life. He reveals it all and further identifies how critical...

Shared suffering is something we've become very good at in regards to pushing ourselves in the gym. We're looking to take this theme and use it to create a community around daily challenges that we will all be participating in over the course of 3 weeks. In this week's podcast, we discuss the Redefine Wellness Challenge that will be taking place at 2020 Fitness starting May 14th and the WHY behind...

Ep. 13 | Reduce Stress. Sleep Better. Cut body fat. by Jon Rowley

In this week's episode we take on a lighter topic with Making Bad Decisions, how you're inevitably going to make them and how we can minimize their affect on your health. From eating cookies, to getting a poor night sleep, we share some tactics that can help you stay on the bandwagon longer and keep achieving the goals you're after. Golfers will enjoy our analogies as we relate lifestyle decision...

This week we got to sit down with one of our own, Dr. Chris Ehly. We dig in to his path towards wellness and his recent pursuit of evolutionary medicine. Though he's schooled in western medicine, you can tell from the conversation that Dr. Ehly is continually innovating in both his personal life and his practice by helping to move health care from the current "sick care" model to one of prevention...

It is politically correct to take a sick day. In this week's episode we talk about creating an environment where it's socially acceptable to improve your recovery on a daily basis. Getting sleep, quite time for the brain and down regulating more often so you can improve your recovery are all ways you try to improve your fitness in the gym to take your health to the next level. Working out by defin...

Sleep is a vital tool at our disposal to improve health. Though under-appreciated and overlooked, we share some thoughts about sleep and how we can take our recovery a little more seriously and the positive impacts it can have on your health. By the end of the podcast, we hope you consider making some changes to your routine that will have a positive impact on your sleep and thus, your health. In...

The key to getting results is consistency...aka doing a little of something every single day. We wish there was a shortcut however it's really as simple as doing the work. In this episode, we review the book "Compound Effect" and how you can apply this methodology to your health. We wish there was a silver bullet to solve everyone's problems although the answer, more often than not, comes down to...

Pool Season is around the corner and the thought on a lot of our minds is, "How do I get rid of that stubborn belly fat?" In this episode, Coach Jeremy Whiteford shares his story about finding fitness, getting leaner and how he came to find 2020 Fitness. It was a long journey with many steps and training partners along the way - One common theme you'll hear is the consistent pursuit of progress. H...

In this week's episode, we reiterate a very important idea of learning to "maximize results while minimizing the amount of 'work' you have to put in". This all links back to "doing your homework". Last week we talked about getting injured and how to avoid it. This week we dial in how to get aerobically fit WITHOUT traditional training OR in addition to. Jon went through a period of working through...

Today we talk, literally, about how to get injured. Danny Laughlin, from Laughlin Performance and Physical Therapy, joins us to talk about the difference between pain and injury. Jon shares his personal experience with a recent injury related to ignoring the pain, hoping it goes away, and then continuing to "work through" the pain - basically doing everything completely wrong and how this and othe...

We talk about creating the complete platform to help people not only become fit, but to improve their health & become the ultimate person. On February 7-8th, we took a group of 12 people on a 2-day immersive health retreat north of Kansas City at the Heartland Center. We hash out what the perfect training model looks like and how we are working to create "Ultimate Person" through 4 pillars of heal...

We got the opportunity to sit down with one of our own, Karen McShane, as she shares her story of the incredible journey over the last 10 years towards health. She talks about the many layers of the onion she has peeled off and it serves as a great reminder that health doesn't happen overnight - it's a process. "You must set goals if you're trying to be better every day." Notable Book Marks: Being...

Jon and Jeremy dig into why everyone should compete, learn to get comfortable being uncomfortable, and how the CrossFit Games Open will prepare you to be a better human being, outside the gym. Notable Book Marks: :30 - The hottest place in the gym 3:30 - Difference in training for an event vs. training for life 8:30 - Earning the right to suffer a bit 10:15 - Jeremy sits on the toilet in the groce...

Jon Rowley & Jeremy Whiteford launch episode #1 of the 2020 Experience Podcast. Jeremy grills Jon on how 2020 Fitness came to be...his morning routine, family life, how his training has evolved from Ironmans to Wim Hof and where 2020 Fitness is going. Jon provides a better understanding of what it was like to start 2020 and all the efforts it's taken from his better half, Britni, to actually see t...