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

Earlier this month, we sat down for a Q&A session with the lovely coach Tamara Akcay, to find out a bit more about her coaching, what it means to train fitness and mindset together, and why it’s so important. Enjoy!

As we start the year with refreshed goals and intentions, Mike Lee is helping us dig deeper into our why and our habits.

In May 2020 I had a conversation with elite gymnast and passionate educator Dave Durante on zoom, where we talked about his gymnastics career, his competition mindset, his family, the Power Monkey Camp and the things he does for fun. I hope you enjoy this as much as I did!

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.

I sat down with Mike Cerbus from Power Monkey Fitness to find out what he means when he talks about ‘Strength in Faith’. Read below what we talked about! You can also watch the conversation on YouTube.

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.

In my first two months of CrossFit I remember being sore every day but still wanting to go back and train the following day. I had to learn resilience fast or I would not make it through the term! Here is what I found.

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.

You know it’s a good book when you keep referring back to it. This is an ever-changing list, but these are some of the books that I keep referring back to.

Since the quarantine started, a lot of us have lost our gym buddies, the people we would ordinarily ‘compete against’ or compare ourselves to in the gym. The silver lining is that this is an opportunity to find internal motivation and ways to push ourselves on your own.

In times of quarantine in particular, journaling can be an incredible tool for voicing your true feelings and processing them. This is an outline of various resources I have used for the past 25 years. I hope it helps. Get in touch if you have any questions!

Stress is a part of daily life. We need some of it in our lives, as it allows us to adapt and perform better, whether that is at work, at home or in training. Often we are unaware of the amount of stress we place on ourselves, and we can get close to the tipping point without realising.

A huge thank you to everyone who made it to our Winter Treats in October and January! Below is a selection of photos by Pablo Byrne. You can also find the notes from the last presentation here.

This article is reposted from the Revival Strength blog with the kind permission of Marcus Filly. We are reposting it here because it is relevant to everyone training in CrossFit.

We have just been to the beautiful, unspoilt island of Kauai in Hawaii, with the Power Monkey family, for the Ultimate Hawaiian Trail Run. The run was the focus of a week-long fundraiser organised by Aaron Hoff and the Keala Foundation, to protect young people from slipping into substance abuse.

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!