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When life gets busy, workouts have to be efficient and effective. Most people don’t have hours to spare at the gym. That’s where burpees shine. This dynamic, full-body movement offers all-in-one fitness benefits and can be done anywhere, no equipment needed. Now this article is a bit of a plug as at ...

We all know that adrenaline rush the moment the workout timer starts and it’s go-time. It’s easy to feel invincible, pushing yourself to the absolute limit in every CrossFit WOD or HYROX race prep. But here’s the kicker: it's not the all-out sprints that make you fitter over time; it's the consisten ...

EDITORS NOTE: The images in this post are not correlated to the article. Injuries are frustrating, no doubt about it, and the truth is that as much as you can train smartly to minimize the risk of injuries they do happen - sometimes in the Gym, but even more often outside of the Gym and those times ...

Testing your capacity vs Training to improve it can be two very different things, and yet some times you can get away with using a "Test" of a workout to improve your capacity in the future - let's define what's the difference and when we think you should think about TRAINING instead of Testing to m ...

Our "PEAK mission" is to make 1000's of human beings Happy, Healthy and FIT - but how can we do that if we don't define what "Fit" really means? And even more importantly, how do YOU know if you are actually getting the results you work so hard for if you don't measure your progress..? We could end ...

But before we explain what it IS, What does it mean to BE "Super Human"? Well in this case we aren't necessarily talking about having a super high "CrossFit"-capacity, or being able to do a Pro HYROX-Race in sub 1 hour - what we aim want to do is define being "Super Human" as "having beyond average ...

HYROX Cape Town 2024 - What a vibe! We had +70 members from our various PEAK Gyms (not all present in the picture above as we had athletes in almost every heat from early AM to late PM) - and we think we can speak for everyone when we said that the race was a really FUN challenge. Soné & Rudy fr ...

The answer is as always: it depends... But this article serves to define when what is most important for YOU, depending on your actual goals and objectives with your training - and of course, your current capacity! We often see/hear through for instance Social Media things like "Do this to get bar m ...

This is the third, and shortest, blog post is a part of a mini-series defining our 3 objectives of what we're trying to create for our members in our PEAK Gyms: Happiness, Health & Fitness! The last couple of weeks we have defined what we consider being healthy levels of fitness, and in reverse: ...

What is Health..? Hint: this is not a "CrossFit is the holy grail" kind of post, read it with an open mind. This is the second blog post in a little series defining our 3 objectives of what we're trying to create for our members in our PEAK Gyms: Happiness, Health & Fitness! Before we get starte ...