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The importance of recovery

March 15, 2018Gina YatesBlogs1 commentCrossFit, CrossFit Leyland, CrossFit Open, Fit4Life, FitFam, Fitness, Health, Injury Reduction, Lancashire, Recovery

The importance of recovery is often overlooked when planning a training schedule. It is, however, ESSENTIAL. The extent of any adaptations / improvements to your training is influenced by many factors, including recovery. Not many CrossFitters enjoy rest days, but if you want to improve when you come to the gym, rather than deteriorate, then...

What did you achieve in 2017?

December 29, 2017Gina YatesWODNo Comments2017, achievements, CrossFit, CrossFit Games, CrossFit Leyland, FitFam, Fitness, Goal setting, Health, New year resolutions, Success Stories

From everyone at CrossFit Leyland we hope you all had a merry christmas and a rewarding 2017! In this blog, we take the opportunity to summarise the achievements of some of our members over the past year. It usually gets to this strange week between christmas and new year, when we've all eaten and drank...

Healthy body + healthy mind

December 6, 2017Gina YatesWODNo Commentsbody, CrossFit, CrossFit Leyland, FitFam, Fitness, Health, Mental Health, mind, spirit, success

Neil Ashton is one of CrossFit Leyland's longest serving members, a man mountain and a true gent. He was kind enough to give us his take on CrossFit and how it helps keep him on track and maintain a healthy body + healthy mind. "As a man closer to 50 than 40, a nuclear family...

Newsletter – November

November 18, 2017Gina YatesWODNo CommentsCrossFit, CrossFit Games, CrossFit Leyland, Fit4Life, FitFam, Fitness, Health, Ladies who lift, Lancashire, Leyland, Life Changing, Newsletter

Hellloooooo CFL Members! We have had so much going on at the box recently so thought it would be good to give you all a round up… On Sunday 5th November CFL celebrated their 5 year anniversary. We started CFL (originally Athletes' Edge) for no other reason than we loved it and we wanted to share...

Success Story – Mike Redshaw

October 31, 2017Gina YatesBlogsNo CommentsCrossFit, CrossFit Leyland, Fit4Life, FitFam, Fitness, Leyland, Life Changing, Success story

At CrossFit Leyland we are proud to have a broad range of members who regularly join in the daily classes, proving that CrossFit can be enjoyed by, and benefit all, regardless of age, experience or physical impairments. We caught up with CFL member and regular 6am class attendee Mike Redshaw and asked him a few questions about...

CrossFit Transformation: “If it was easy everyone would be in great shape”

October 25, 2017Gina YatesWODNo Commentsathlete, Body Composition, CrossFit, CrossFit Leyland, Fat loss, FitFam, Fitness, Mindset, Nutrition, rugby, Transformation

"If it was easy everyone would be in great shape" My view of CrossFit and what I have learnt... My background was Rugby Union and I played for various clubs for over 10 years playing over 100 national league games along the way. This involved training twice a week, gym 4-5 times a week...

The supplement minefield

October 17, 2017Gina YatesWODNo CommentsCrossFit, CrossFit Leyland, FitFam, Fitness, Health, Nutriton, Performance, Supplements

The supplement industry is worth over £100 BILLION globally and is expected to double in the next ten years! Suffice to say there are a lot of companies around the world making money off supplements, in particular those in the health and fitness industry. The FDA defines supplements as products “intended to add further nutritional...

CrossFit Games Athlete – Cathy Wilson

August 22, 2017Gina YatesBlogs1 commentCathy Wilson, Competition, CrossFit, CrossFit Games 2017, CrossFit Leyland, CrossFit Mums, FitFam, Fitness, Ladies who lift, Lancashire, Success Stories, This Girl Can

This past weekend, we welcomed CrossFit Leyland member and 2017 CrossFit Games Athlete Cathy Wilson back to the box. We caught up with her to get her thoughts and reflections on a truly unique experience for a UK masters athlete. Q. It's just over 2 weeks since the 2017 CrossFit Games finished and just a...

Newsletter – June

June 19, 2017Gina YatesWODNo CommentsCrossFit, CrossFit Games, CrossFit Leyland, Exercise, FitFam, Fitness, Newsletter

Summer is well under way! And the box… well, the box is positively tropical 🙂 There has been lots going on lately and more to come, take a read of the latest newsletter below… CFL Partner Competition We will be hosting our 2nd annual in house pairs competition on Sunday 16th July 11:30 am – 4.30 pm….

CrossFit Leyland Open Awards 2017

May 14, 2017Gina YatesBlogsNo CommentsCrossFit, CrossFit Games, CrossFit Leyland, CrossFit Open, CrossFit Teens, Fit4Life, FitFam, Fitness, Lancashire, Success Stories

The dust has settled on yet another fantastic CrossFit Open. CrossFit Leyland set a new PR, with 94 of our members signing up to take part in the fun and games and push themselves to their respective limits. It was a testing five weeks, with a few curve balls (in the shape of dumbbells) thrown…

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The importance of recovery

What did you achieve in 2017?

Healthy body + healthy mind

Success Story – Mike Redshaw

CrossFit Transformation: “If it was easy everyone would be in great shape”

The supplement minefield

CrossFit Games Athlete – Cathy Wilson

CrossFit Leyland Open Awards 2017

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