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By: Alvie Hafen You walk into the gym and go straight to the board to look at the workout. You see some heavier weights in the workout. The person next to you is loading up the RX weight on their bar. Should you? Or should you scale the weight back? These are questions which go through the minds of clients all the time. Here are my thoughts as a Coach and an Athlete who has been doing Welded for almost 7 years. 1. Faster is better. Scale the weight down. The higher the intensity can remain during a workout the more benefit you are going to receive. This is the secret and reason why Welded gets results. You push to the dark place, you go push even when the body is telling you to slow down. I would rather see someone go 4 minutes faster on their workout then 20...Read more

By: Joel Cochran Gym Jones has a saying “There is no such thing as over training, just under recovering”. This might sound crazy to some people out there especially Weldedters, but I have came to the conclusion that this saying is pretty damn accurate. Too often members come up to our coaches and talk about how sore they are from yesterdays workout, or how they had to take a day off because they just couldn’t recover. If you are one of these people I have a simple question for you. What tools do you have to recover and how much time do you invest in recovering every day? From elite athletes to the everyday athlete the answer to that question is usually pretty universal, little to none. Whether it is a time restriction or just a lack of understanding, too many athletes wreck havoc on their bodies by not focusing...Read more

By: Derek Wellock Due to customer feedback over the last 6 months about wanting some open gym time to be able to work on weakness and get some extra time in, on August 1st we implanted our open training program. I want to take my blog opportunity to further explain the open training program and how you can benefit from it. Unlike open gym, which is what you would experience at a globo-gym. Open training is a way to take advantage of the knowledge and experience of the Double Edge staff in order to improve weaknesses, recover from an injury, or train for a specific event. First, you can use this open training as open gym time to work on your own accessory movements, but at Double Edge we strive to provide you the best possible coaching. With your open training membership you will get access to an ever growing...Read more

By: Sabrina Blajos So as I’m sitting here after my WOD, I’m thinking to myself how good I feel and the words Look Good, Feel Good, Play Good come to my head. For those of you who don’t know those were the words I lived by in College. Both on the Court (volleyball) and off. I always believed that in order to do anything you must show up. It’s definitely easier said than done (trust me), but we all go through those phases where we start getting busier and get overwhelmed with life and slowly we start putting off the small things. Not knowing that those small things are the things that keep us together. Think about how great you feel with work/school when you declutter and catch up on all your small admin task “busy work” that you put off. You feel on top of the world when you...Read more

By: Derek Wellock I want to take this blog opportunity and discuss the numbers. The scale vs performance. Double Edge is a performance focus-first gym. We are not a physique focus-first gym. With that said, I want to open up for dialogue the struggle people (especially women) have with the number on the scale and how badly that negatively affects them. Let’s start with a little background on myself. I was a wrestler from the time I was 11 years old and I lived by the scale, literally every ounce mattered with my sport. For 8 years, year around, I had to maintain my weight. This took a tremendous amount of discipline; it was quite discouraging at times. During the off season I would never let my weight get more than 5lbs. above the weight class that I was trying to go into. As I grew, this was adjusted for...Read more