By Alan Shaw, Co-Founder and Head Coach of Rhapsody CrossFit They say the days are slow and years are fast. At Rhapsody CrossFit in Charleston, my experience is that the days are fast and the years are faster. The three of us can barely wrap our brains around celebrating our first anniversary. It seems [...]
By Alan Shaw, Co-Owner and Head Coach of Rhapsody CrossFit in Charleston As a CrossFit coach, you can be pulled in a thousand and five directions at any given time. From helping an athlete fine tune her clean to mopping sweat equity off the floor, every minute of every day demands attention from all [...]
By Alan Shaw, Co-Owner and Head Coach of Rhapsody CrossFit in Charleston WHAT FUELS YOUR FIRE? Scott Stefanelli, Founder of Coyote Nutrition. When it comes to health and fitness, what you do in the gym is only a piece of the greater puzzle to becoming your best self. Day in and day [...]
By Alan Shaw, Rhapsody Head Coach It’s Open season, sports fans! The CrossFit Open kicks off February 21 and we are rallying here at Rhapsody CrossFit in Charleston. Pause. What is this CrossFit Open thing everyone is talking about? The most important thing you need to know is that the CrossFit Games Open is [...]
Rhapsody CrossFit and Hobart Custom Rhapsody CrossFit in Charleston is proud to follow Hobart Custom programming developed by James Hobart. A legend in the CrossFit community, Hobart is a two-time podium finisher in the Northeast Regional, Affiliate Cup Champion and a former member of CrossFit Mayhem Freedom when the team claimed its 2015 + 2016 CrossFit [...]
Guest post by Mary Beth Henderson, Rhapsody CrossFit Member I AM A CROSSFIT ATHLETE You have never seen me in a competition, I have yet to get a muscle-up and, at first blush, you probably wouldn’t believe I can deadlift more than twice my bodyweight. Nevertheless, CrossFit is a significant part of my life [...]
By Alan Shaw, Rhapsody Head Coach For many of us, trying something new is a mixed bag of excitement and apprehension. Whether you are dipping a toe into fitness for the first time or are a seasoned CrossFit veteran, stepping inside a new gym can be intimidating. Along with striking a superman pose in [...]
By Alan Shaw, Rhapsody Head Coach Day in and day out they haunt me. If I had a nickel for every time I challenged a damaging CrossFit stereotype, I’d have retired in Maui by now. The reality, however, is that stereotypes don’t just happen. They bubble up after repeated exposure to information that, over [...]
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