by Saltwater Athletics | Feb 4, 2025 | Uncategorized
Our Nutrition Prescription “Eat meat, vegetables, nuts & seeds, some fruit, little starch, no sugar. Keep intake to levels that support exercise but not body fat.” Eat meat: Protein is the priority. It’s why it’s listed first. Eat lean animal proteins...
by Saltwater Athletics | Jan 14, 2025 | Uncategorized
Sleep Training Sleep Training We may say things like “I’m totally good with 5 hours” or “I get groggy if I sleep too much”. In reality, we can function with less, but our bodies need more recovery. Just like consistency with workouts, we can train bigger and...
by Saltwater Athletics | Dec 12, 2024 | Uncategorized
Don't Trip. Full Grip! We naturally grab the pull-up bar: A) with our thumb wrapped around the bottom (full grip), or B) over the top (overgrip, suicide grip). While there’s no exact right or wrong, there is a better or worse. Here’s a few reasons the FULL GRIP is...
by Saltwater Athletics | Jun 20, 2021 | Uncategorized
One of the great components of CrossFit is the friendly competition with your buddies, coupled with the desire to not be left behind. It’s part of CrossFit’s strange allure – by default, you push yourself. But not everyone wants to compete. We have...
by Saltwater Athletics | May 14, 2021 | Uncategorized
To Our Saltwater Team & Supportive Community, After an amazing 11 months in our humble little CrossFit box, we are finally moving! Please bear with us over the next week as you will see major pieces of equipment disappear into the night. As the week moves along,...
by Saltwater Athletics | Apr 16, 2021 | Uncategorized
At Saltwater Athletics, our CrossFit programming is referred to as “constantly varied,” ranging from high intensity interval training, heavy lifts, and longer aerobic workouts, to gymnastic-based movements (think pull-ups, toes to bar, etc.), body-weight workouts and...
by Saltwater Athletics | Apr 14, 2021 | Uncategorized
MURPH Every year on Memorial Day weekend, CrossFitters in affiliates across the world perform the Hero workout, ‘Murph’. At Saltwater starting Monday 19th you will find a 6 week “Murph prep” that will span 17 workouts. This is supplemental training to add...
by Saltwater Athletics | Apr 5, 2021 | Uncategorized
We are super excited to move in this direction. Why? because so many of you have been challenging yourselves and now we see the need to continue to improve. We know a lot of you are used to the 20min METCON and we are glad this has helped you. But now it’s time...
by Saltwater Athletics | Mar 29, 2021 | Uncategorized
At Saltwater Athletics: CrossFit, Strength and Conditioning (and the home of Garden State Crossfit!), we want our members to feel that there is immense value in their membership, so we’ve added ROMWOD to our daily programming. We’re not looking to simply “get...
by Saltwater Athletics | Mar 26, 2021 | Uncategorized
We often hear from our new members that they wish they’d tried CrossFit sooner, but delayed giving it a shot because of the price point… and we get that. Before we opened Saltwater Athletics: CrossFit, Strength and Conditioning, we were members of a CrossFit gym (and...
