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How We Train Around Injuries Before They Happen
The biggest myth in fitness is that hard training and healthy joints are a trade-off, that if you train seriously long enough, something eventually breaks. Most of the injuries we see don't come from training too hard. They come from tissue that was never prepared for the range of motion or load it was suddenly asked to handle. Our approach borrows heavily from the ATG (Athletic Truth Group, also known as Knees Over Toes) philosophy: train joints through their full range, not
Mark Offerdahl
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Why We Coach Animal-Based Eating at CrossFit Uncommon
You can walk into the gym and give us everything you've got three times a week, and still feel flat, inflamed, and slow to recover if what's on your plate is working against you instead of for you. That's why we coach an animal-based approach to eating here, not as a 30-day challenge or a detox, but as how we actually eat. Protein-forward. Built around real food. Light on the seed oils and ultra-processed stuff that make recovery harder than it needs to be. Here's the short v
Mark Offerdahl
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Why Protein Comes First
You can train hard all week and still leave most of it on the floor if the plate after class is an afterthought. At CrossFit Uncommon we treat protein like the first decision of the meal, not a side note. Muscle building is not a vague vibe. It is a switch. When a meal delivers enough high quality protein, especially from animal foods, that switch flips and repair starts. When it does not, almost nothing happens, no matter how good the workout felt. This is education for peop
Mark Offerdahl
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