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Imagine yourself arriving at the gym stressed out, having trouble focusing on the workout to come. Of course, you could half-ass your training or take your stress out on your coach or fellow athletes, but after reading this blog, you'll know there are better ways to handle stress management and get calm, collected and focused.

"Constantly varied, functional movements, executed at high intensity," is the long-standing creed of CrossFit. The key to the success in CrossFit is intensity. When the intensity is too high or is applied in the wrong way, it often and unfortunately also means injury.

You step away from the pull up bar and find your hands to be a bloody mess.. Ripping your hands from training is unfortunately one of the common problems crossfit athletes face. Everyone who's ever accidentally put shampoo on their fresh rips while washing their hair can attest to the fact that ripping your hands is no fun at all. Since rips can also seriously interfere with training I thought I'd give some tips on how to prevent rips and how to take care of your hands so you can keep building that functional fitness.

We've seen a lot of people confused about the different barbell types we have in UnScared and the rules of etiquette that surround them, so here's a post to remedy that! In this quick article, we'll discuss the weightlifting bars, powerlifting bars, crossfit bars and technique bars. If you are weight training at UnScared, just remember to be respectful of the equipment, use clips and ask your coach if you're unsure about anything!

The short answers are: nothing, forever and never. However, that may not be the best way to convince someone to start with a CrossFit gym, or to stick with it. Even though it may be true, it does not really help to relieve some of the hesitation someone may have with starting.

In 1994, Henry Rollins published a legandary essay about the Iron and the Soul. Take your time to read it, chew on it and come back to it from time to time.