Buff Brains by Vegvisir CrossFit

The muscle-up is one of those movements that gets the same question that doing Algebra is middle school gets, "why do we do this if we don't do it in real life." Well, the answer is that you actually do! So, today we are gonna dive into all the practical uses of the muscle-up and how you can get benefits from it at any skill level!

How much and how often should you rest when you're working out for a specific goal? What about active recovery? What even is active recovery? Well, in today's episode we go over just that!

After our planned discussion about fitness, the crew had a candid convo about psychology and fitness and some of our stories about mental struggles associated with our fitness journies! Listen in to hear more!

Come join us for a discussion about mental health and how it affects our fitness and how our fitness in turn can help our mental health (:

Exercise can be a scary subject when you have heart issues. In today's podcast we talk from the prospective of an athlete who has heart issues that does CrossFit and a gym owner who has trained many athletes with heart issues. 

Jump Ropes?! You mean those things we used in gym class and then immediately forgot about once we hit middle school? Well, in CrossFit we use the jump rope quite a bit and it can be one of the most challenging implements to master with some of the biggest payoffs for your coordination and cardiovascular abilities! Join us as we talk about Jump Ropes and their benefits to you in today's episode

While it can be sexy to focus on goals like getting abs or squatting 500lbs, the reality is that everything we are doing today for our health and fitness will pay dividends as we age. 6In Today's podcast we talk about the importance of training as we grow older and how starting at any age can help improve your health and build a buffer against aging that we all desire!

Caffeine is something that plenty of people have every day. In this episode we talk about how it affects us during workouts, how it affects different athletes differently, and when is the best time for you to have it to get the most out of your day!

Preparing for something you care about gives you drive to do the little things every day, even when you don't feel like it. For Nikki, this was training for the 70.3 Ironman in Oregon this Summer! Join us as we talk about what it took to train for this spectacular event and the lessons learned along the way!

As part of our second interview with one of our coaches, we decided to interview our newest Vegvisir Coach, Manny! Hop on in to today's episode to learn about his CrossFit journey and how it might be not so disimlar from your own!

Running is the most popular form of exericse in the world. It helps improve cardio vascular abliities but it has some pretty big blindspots in overall fitness and mobility! Today we discuss how weight lifitng and incorporating movements with greater ranges of motion can help running and improve your health in tandem with your cardio!

Most of the lifting that is done in gyms invovles a nice and neat barbell, dumbbell, or machine. In our gym, we love to incorporate a different object into the mix of weight lifting. The sandbag is quite the useful tool to make ahtletes stronger in the real world and we discuss how those lovely blobs of dirt improve our fitness!

If you've been to our gym, you've probably seen a big canvas that has a bunch of different exercises on it with Norse God names across the top! This is our Tyr Board and we use it to help athletes set goals! Join us today as we talk about setting goals and how we help athletes of all levels improve their fitness!

Working out is tough. Working out in the extreme heat and cold is even tougher! I today's episode we talk about the do's and don't's of training outdoors in tough weather and our experiences with said rough weather in our training!

Working out on vacation can be taboo to some people. I mean, if it adds stress it doesn't belong on vacation right? Well, what if we told ya there was a way to start your day off with a shot of energy + have the BEST review network you could access for walkable food and excursions you should take THAT DAY? Well, why don't ya try Dropping-In to another CrossFit gym while you're on vacation?! In tod...

We improve in the margins between what we can do and haven't done yet. In lifting, this is seen in the form of lifts where we have to focus just a little bit hard on our mechanics and go into some reps with there being a possibility we can't stand up the wait. Today we talk about the importance of learning how to bail and how pushing your limits can be done safely and help you improve as an athlet...

One of our athletes, Arturo Torres, made it to the CrossFit Semifinals! This week we are talking about the experience of being behind the scenes at Semifinals from a coach's perspective! Follow us for our future episode where we interview the athlete himself!

Teaching children how to lift weights is a touchy subject. But, what if we don't teach them how to lift at all? In today's podcast, we go in-depth from the perspective of a health professional and CrossFit Kid's Certified Coach about safe ways for kids to train and how it can affect them throughout life.

You've seen it on all the CrossFit videos. People doing handstands and claiming it they make you "fitter."  Today we talk about how Handstands are beneficial for athletes of all levels and how learning to do them helps with body awareness, strength, balance, and coordination!

Fitness is a personal issue for many of us. The number on the scale feels like a reflection of who we are and it can either build us up or tear us down. In today's episode we discuss how the scale isn't a reflection of who you are and how to start developing a healhty relationship with you and your fitness!

Have you always seen CrossFitters flop around on a pull-up bar and wonder "why the heck do they do that and how can they even call that a pull-up?" Well, join us on this episode as we talk all things kipping and how this skill helps improve your fitness!

Have ya ever found yourself in one of our classes and gone "Why are we doing X many reps for X sets today? How does this help me?" Well check out today's podcast to learn just that (:

When you join a gym, you typically don't think you'll end up falling in love with fitness so much that you make a career change. Well, that's exactly what happened to Coach Brian! Join us for a chat about starting CrossFit, lessons learned along the way, and some of Brian's top tips for athletes going through the same hurdles he has faced!

Cardiovascular/respiratory endurance, stamina, strength, flexibility, power, coordination, agility, balance, and accuracy. These are the 10 General Phsyical Skills we train in CrossFit. Join us as we talk about these skills and how we work on them to help improve your overall health!

Have you ever wondered why we do Clean and Jerks in CrossFit? Give this episode a listen if you wanna learn why this movements is valuable to your overall fitness and how we apply it!