On Sunday, August 17th, we're hosting the third event of the 2014 Subway Series. We encourage all of you to register a team and compete for Team Virtuosity!For those of you who can't make it to the competition, please take note of our amended class schedule for Sunday.

The Brooklyn Barbell Club, in partnership with CrossFit Virtuosity, is proud to announce its first annual Olympic Weightlifting Meet! This meet is designed to be accessible to the relatively novice weightlifter, and is open to both members and non-members.

Name: Phil Quinn
Hometown: West Islip, NY (Long Island)
Age: 24
Occupation: Software Engineer
CrossFitting Since: On and off since 2010.

What makes CrossFit Virtuosity unique?
THE PEOPLE! That includes the members and the coaches. Everyone is super unique and varied and interesting and welcoming. No matter how far I move from CFV, I will keep coming back as long as I live in this city. I can’t imagine working out with a cooler group of people.

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(or Why We Don’t Program “Murph" Every Day)

For today’s bite, let’s take on the elephant in the room: cardio.

The mainstream fitness prescription calls for spending hours and hours “burning calories” on the treadmill (or elliptical, or exercise bike, or whatever the cardio machine du jour happens to be.)

We do not like this. Here’s why.

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We’ll be celebrating July 4th with a traditional "Jacinto Storm". For those of you who don't know, Jacinto is an NYC CrossFit legend -- the fittest 74-year-old around! He turns 75 on July 3rd; we'll be completing his birthday WOD on the 4th!

Come spend an afternoon learning, training, and gaining confidence in the clean & jerk during this 2.5 hour intensive! Work side by side with athletes of all levels as the clean and jerk are broken down individually, and then put back together again!

Weights are fun, but do you know enough about just moving your body? Want to work on your handstand or muscle up? Starting the week of June 23rd, Monday's 5:30pm Level 2 class will be Gymnastics with Chazz!

This Saturday is our annual CrossFit Virtuosity Prom! To facilitate clean up (and recovery!), we'll be making the following slight schedule changes.

How do we know CrossFit improves fitness? There isn’t one definition of fitness, but we have some models that we use to define it and guide us in our quest to become more fit!

Let’s talk about The Hopper Model. Picture a hopper containing bingo balls, each of which has a different physical challenge written on it. This could be anything — a 5k run, a 1RM deadlift, shoveling a driveway, running with a 40lb suitcase through an airport to catch your flight — it’s unknown and unknowable what might come out.

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