By: Dawn Swinney You work hard. Maybe you’ve been coming to the gym for a few years. You come consistently and give each workout your all. You’ve seen improvements in your health and abilities inside and outside the gym. You’re proud of your hard work. Then…you look around. You see someone who maybe hasn’t been coming to the gym as long as you have or maybe isn’t as consistent as you are. Their PR is higher than yours. They beat you in workouts. You tell yourself that their muscles are bigger than yours or they’ve lost more weight. Now, you think you suck. You’re disappointed in your next PR because it “wasn’t as good as theirs”. You stop telling them good job and don’t even acknowledge them in class. Whatever relationship you might have had with them feels either awkward or nonexistent. Most of us have dealt with something like...Read more

GROUP CLASS WORKOUT Warm Up: 3 lap run around gym 3 Rounds 5 dumbbell clean and jerk (each arm) 10 sit ups 10 calorie machine Coach led clean and jerk progression Strength: Clean & Jerk (every 1:15) 9×2 MetCon: Welded: 14 minute EMOM 1. 20/14 cal. bike 2. 40 double unders Welded Lean: 35 Minute AMRAP 3 Rounds 15 burpees 45 double unders/90 singles or 15 double unders 3 Rounds 12 hang squat cleans (115#/75#) 36 calorie machineRead more

On Friday, May 25th Double Edge will be honoring LT. Michael P. Murphy in the annual workout “Murph”. Whether you are experienced with this workout or brand new to it, this will challenge you mentally as much as physically with the average finish time of Murph being around an hour. This is one of our favorite workouts because it not only honors a fallen hero, it also is a great measurement of your fitness which you can continually retest each year. So come prepared to push your limits as we participate in this annual workout. For more information about The Murph Challenge head to themurphchallenge.com.Read more

By: Savina Brown Contrary to popular belief, yoga isn’t just about flexibility and contorting your body in to crazy shapes. It’s also about rebuilding, strengthening, and sculpting muscles as well. Think you get enough of that in Welded? Think again. Although Welded is a great way to develop full-body strength, it is also easy to sustain imbalances in the body. Larger muscle groups begin to take over smaller muscle groups and stabilizers due to lack of mobility or lack of use. Ever heard the saying, “use it or lose it?” That’s exactly what’s happening here. Once those big muscle groups take over, they no longer recruit smaller muscle groups and stabilizing muscles to help them out. Hence, you’re losing the strength and ability of these muscles. No fear yoga is here! Many of the postures in yoga encourage proper alignment, balance, and stabilization. Meaning that yoga uses and reinforces muscles...Read more

GROUP CLASS WORKOUT Warm Up: Coaches Choice Dynamic Range of Motion MetCon: Welded: 18 minute AMRAP 2 Rounds 10 power snatches (135#/95#) 12 bar facing burpees 2 Rounds 30 wallballs (20#/14#) 30/24 calorie bike Welded Lean: 18 minute AMRAP 200 meter run 10 deadlifts (135#/95#)Read more