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Fitness

Fitness

Over the twenty-two years I’ve been a Rolfer®, the seven years of doing CrossFit and the six I’ve spent coaching and owning a CrossFit gym, I’ve asked myself a lot questions about what is the optimum level of functional fitness we should have as humans. I’ve read a...

Heart Rate Monitors

Heart Rate Monitors

As you may know Jim is completing a year Coaching Certification with OPEX. Part of this training is understanding in better detail the difference between Training, Testing and Competing. If you been with us a while you’ve done workouts that were programmed at a Rate...

Breaking Windows

There’s a theory in criminology of how crime spreads called the “Broken Window Theory”. The basic theory is: Consider a building with a few broken windows. If the windows are not repaired, the tendency is for vandals to break a few more windows. Eventually, they may...

Pain is in the Brain

If you've been training with us at Integral for any amount of time, you've heard us tell you to not take things to a painful point in your body. We don't mean you should avoid mild discomfort but rather that you don't want to be in pain. For those of you who don't...

Functional Fitness

Functional Fitness

Functional Fitness This is the first post for this site. Our hope for it is that we'll be able to share useful information with you on subjects like: Rolfing Structural Integration, CrossFit, Olympic Lifting, Nutrition and how they can you attain your fitness goals....