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Focus and Determination by Mayan Smith-Gobat

Focus and Determination by Mayan Smith-Gobat

Here’s our Gnarly athlete, Mayan Smith-Gobat's latest update from her blog, http://www.mayanclimbs.com/. Read it! It's a great way to get motivated to put some adventure in your life. Thanks, Mayan!

Some Awesome Ideas for Breakfast

Some Awesome Ideas for Breakfast

Your blood sugar is naturally lower in the mornings. And just because you’re sleeping doesn’t mean your body isn’t burning calories keeping everything going. If you’re like me, you wake...

How to set up a transition area for your next triathlon

How to set up a transition area for your next t...

Never done a tri before? Nervous as all get up that you’ll stumble into the transition area and lose valuable seconds if not minutes trying to get socks on wet...

CrossFit’s “Hotshots 19” Memorial WOD Recap

What an unbelievably tight community Prescott, Arizona and Captain Crossfit are lucky enough to be a part of. Heading into Prescott, I had no idea what to expect. I didn’t...

CrossFit’s Memorial WOD this Weekend in AZ to Support Families of Fallen Hotshots

CrossFit’s Memorial WOD this Weekend in AZ to S...

This Saturday, Aug 31st, Gnarly is honored to be headed down to Prescott Arizona to take place in a very special memorial WOD for the 19 fallen firefighters of the...

A Tale of Two Worlds

A Tale of Two Worlds

Today’s blog comes from Craig Lloyd whose love for ultrarunning runs deep. Craig writes a blog, refuse2quit, which is filled with his musings and adventures -It’s a pretty damn decent...

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A Tale of Two Worlds

Patent for Artificial Sweetener Aspartame Verifies it is E. Coli Feces

Patent for Artificial Sweetener Aspartame Verif...

With the patent for the very popular artificial sweetener aspartame recently being released to the public domain comes the bizarre news that it is actually “harvested” from the excrement of...

Mayan Smith-Gobat is Gnarly!

Mayan Smith-Gobat is Gnarly!

One of our amazing athletes is Mayan Smith-Gobat and we love when she decides to clue us in on her adventures and post a new entry on her blog. Her...

Pearl Izumi’s Urine Swatch Poster

Pearl Izumi’s Urine Swatch Poster

I came across this poster from an ad campaign Pearl Izumi did a few years ago and remembered how brilliant I thought it was.

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Pearl Izumi’s Urine Swatch Poster

New Cadence App For Runners

New Cadence App For Runners

There’s a new iPhone app that will automatically adjust the speed of your music to fall in line with a cadence that will help you reach a specific pace you’ve...

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New Cadence App For Runners

Gluten and Endurance Athletes

Gluten and Endurance Athletes

Here’s a great article from Active.com talking about gluten and why more and more endurance athletes (myself included) have decided to push it out of their diet.

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Gluten and Endurance Athletes

Tara Costa and Switching How We Gauge Fitness

Tara Costa and Switching How We Gauge Fitness

A couple weeks ago, former Biggest Loser contestant Tara Costa found out she was being sued by the fitness company, FC Online Marketing Inc, for whom she’s a spokeswoman, because...

K/Rail and The Lean Berets: Avengers of Health!

I had the chance to spend some quality kettlebell time with Kevin Rail of The Lean Berets this weekend. This guy eats, sleeps, and lives by his belief in truly...

Gnarly Throwdowns: Week 1 Re-cap

Gnarly Throwdowns: Week 1 Re-cap

Friday night's Throwdown was FANTASTIC! Although it was our first one, and there were going to be some obvious bumps and surprises, they were all good surprises.

Whale Eats Diver (Almost) and What Gnarly is (o...

People ask us all the time what Gnarly is and how we define it. Let's see if I can do that for you today.

Hungry for Change.

Hungry for Change.

Ok, If you’re a regular reader of this blog, and you’re familiar with Gnarly’s stance on clean, natural ways to fuel your body, then you’re going to want to check...

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Hungry for Change.

Anthill Films Trailer for "Not Bad"

Anthill Films Trailer for "Not Bad"

Here’s a sick little bike film from Anthill Films that tickled our kiwi endeared souls at Gnarly HQ.

Elevated CrossFit Summer Games Recap

Elevated CrossFit Summer Games Recap

The second annual Elevated CrossFit Summer Games took place over this past weekend, July 19th-20th, 2013 at Timpanogos Harley Davidson in Lindon, Utah.

Recon’s Jet Sunglasses

Recon’s Jet Sunglasses

If you have an extra $1,500 to spend on sunglasses, you might want to think about Recon’s new Jet. These glasses will not only protect your eyes from the sun,...

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Recon’s Jet Sunglasses

Motivated By Music

Motivated By Music

Gnarly adventurers, in honor of Friday and the beautiful summer weekend we have before us, I thought I’d share a few of my recent and all time favorite songs to...

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Motivated By Music

Anybody Watching The Tour

Anybody Watching The Tour

10 years ago, I was in love with the Tour de France. I was obsessed with cycling. I raced my bike weekly at local criterium races, I commuted to and...

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Anybody Watching The Tour

Hey Crossfit Groupies

Hey Crossfit Groupies

thought this post was pretty amusing from Josh Bobrowsky over at Integrated Fitness Crossfit. The title kinda says it all, “Don’t be a CrossFit A$#hole: 6 Tips to Be a...

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Hey Crossfit Groupies

Getting Over Getting Up

Getting Over Getting Up

One of the hardest aspects of trying to stay healthy and fit is finding the time to do it. For a lot of us, that means we need to get...

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Getting Over Getting Up

The Truth About Running

The Truth About Running

Here’s a great running comic from Matthew Inman and his website The Oatmeal.

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The Truth About Running