Today I’ll share what I’ve learned about something most of us do wrong: breathing. Last year, after listening to the audiobooks “Breath” by James Nestor and “Oxygen Advantage” by Patrick McKeown, I became intrigued by the idea that athletes could use their breath to influence their performance. Then, after taking…

Hey, fellow fitness enthusiasts! We’re beyond excited to share some amazing news: WODwell, the go-to archive of popular “benchmark” workouts (aka: WODs), including “hero” and “memorial” WODs and their stories, just took a massive leap toward our mission of making functional fitness more accessible to everyone — and we mean…

Adopting an ancient practice to aid performance, recovery, and so much more — In 2022 WODwell affiliated with CrossFit under the name “Spiritus CrossFit.” Spiritus means “breath” or “life force” in Latin. One of our members asked me why we chose this name. This was my answer: When Lisa and I were thinking about what we wanted WODwell’s CrossFit affiliate name to represent…

Track your progress in your personal activity log — for free. — Why log your workouts? ✅ Keep yourself accountable. The simple practice of documenting what you do (like workouts) has been shown to help you create and enforce good habits (like working out consistently). ✅ Track your progress. You can’t improve what you don’t measure. …

Working out at home? Don’t have access to all the equipment of a full CrossFit gym? Use this hack from WODwell to find hundreds of great workouts using just the equipment you do have. IMPORTANT: Don’t skip the last step! Open wodwell.com Click the main menu Select “Pick Your Equipment”…

Improvements to WOD filters on wodwell.com — Every athlete and fitness coach knows the feeling of being stuck and lacking the ‘fire’. The feeling of pulling up your favorite source of workout inspiration… and you just keep scrolling. The right workout doesn’t show itself; the workouts use equipment you don’t have. …

Today, millions of athletes use WODwell to discover workouts. Now we’re building a way to help our users find and hire remote coaches online. Why? Because one-off workouts will only get you so far on your functional fitness journey. Because 80% of our users are athletes and 20% are coaches…

35% of the coaches in a test we ran we ran over the Summer (to match athletes with remote fitness coaches) told us they got hired by at least one athlete. That’s not bad for a low-budget prototype. Now we’re designing software to do it better. After we ended that…

Over a few weeks in Summer 2019 I ran a low-tech (and low-budget $0) test to see if I could help athletes, users of WODwell, who were looking for “remote coaching.” 30 coaches signed up. 100 athletes asked us to match them with a coach. …