Jess Vincent tells us about her first experience of weightlifting - on our recent three-day weightlifting weekend in Devon.

Throughout the weekend Jess discovers that rather than being a niche sport for elite athletes, the true value of Weightlifting – a deeper understanding of what your body is capable of and the opportunity to meet like-minded people – is accessible to all.

Mike Cerbus, Weightlifting Coach at Power Monkey Fitness and former Team USA weightlifter, has been teaching in CrossFit gyms around the world for over 10 years. During our Weightlifting Weekend in Devon, we asked Mike what often holds people back, and why weightlifting holidays, whether you’re competing or just starting out, give us the space and time we need to progress in the sport.

We’re excited to be running our first Weightlifting Weekend this April. Wondering whether it’s for you? Read below our Q&A with Mike Cerbus and Stella Kamba and if you have any questions whatsoever, please drop us a line.

What could you achieve in a year with a daily movement practice?

Here at MLA we are so excited to be bringing you our very first Fitness and Mindset retreat this April, in partnership with coach Tamara Akcay and Mindset RxD.

After receiving questions from the MLA community asking exactly what it will involve, I thought I’d put together a short post to explain why I think training fitness and mindset together is so important.

If you only have about an hour to train and you want to move well and lift heavy things, it pays to prime your nervous system to do that in advance. Visualisation can help.

Are you about to start a new training programme with a new coach? Making the most of your time together can take your training and wellbeing to a whole new level. Below are a few ideas.

Going by the response to our last story, it looks like a few of you are still in two minds about the CrossFit Open. Remember, taking part and registering online are two different things. You can take part without registering. A few examples below:

The CrossFit Open is our favourite time of the year. Yes, on a par with Christmas! Here is our advice on how to approach it, if you are relatively new to it. 

After our recent posts you asked a lot of questions about our upcoming October weekends, mostly to do with the Open. We thought we would get answering them!