Magnesium and grips: when to use it, how to apply it and which Velites models fit best
Magnesium can be your best ally… or the reason you cut the set on rep 4. It's not about adding “more” or “less”, but about understanding when it's worth it and how to apply it so that the hand–grip...
How to choose grips by bar type: clean, chalked, smooth or knurled
How to choose your grips for CrossFit remains every crossfitter's battleground. If one week your grips seem to “work by themselves” and the next week you feel they don't hold at all, it's not magic...
What CrossFit Grips Are For: Protection, Grip, and Technical Progress
CrossFit hand grips are hand protectors placed between the palm and the bar or rings to reduce friction, prevent chafing, and maintain a stable grip. Their function isn't to spare you pain, but to ...
8 brutal jump rope crossfit WODs
No failure is more painful than failing a rep of double-unders. I mean, how annoying does it get, flogging yourself with a CrossFit jump rope? Well this can be quite a regular incident when pairing...
Functional Training for Beginners. Keys to Start with Guarantees
If you follow the Velites blog , you’re surely a CrossFit enthusiast or athlete. But if you’ve just landed on our website or blog and barely know our flagship sport, you’ve come to the right post, ...
How to perform double unders in 3 steps
Learning to do double unders is one of the challenges athletes face when we want to gain agility and dexterity. To master the technique, we have prepared this post with several resources to help yo...
Everything You Need to Know About CrossFit (and How to Train Safely and Efficiently)
If you want to know CrossFit CEO and founder Greg Glassman's official mantra on what fitness is, here it is: “Eat meat, vegetables, nuts and seeds, some fruit, few carbs and no sugar. Keep an ener...
10 Accessible Functional Training Routines in our app
Functional training routines are based on integrating all aspects of our body's movement into our daily exercise routines. That is, we don't train an isolated muscle group, but rather exercise rou...
Discover the new VELITES MINIMAL 1.0 training shoes: Performance Simplified
The story of the Minimal 1.0 shoes designed by Velites begins with a recurring question we've heard from athletes, coaches, and users who train CrossFit, Hyrox, and functional training: "I want the...
The 8 Best CrossFit Workouts for Beginners. Guide to Starting Functional Training
If you're new to CrossFit, you’re probably wondering: first, what does Froning do, and second, how to actually get into the world of WODs, the intensity, the pain and the functional workouts toughe...
7 HIIT Jump Rope Workouts – Maximum Results in Minimum Time
Bored of the usual jump rope routines? Let's talk about high-intensity interval training, also known as HIIT. As the name suggests, HIIT workouts are done in intervals, alternating intense anaerob...
20 of the Coolest WODs in the World
With Murph already done by most of us for another year, you might be asking, what's next? There's a whole world of hard and fun WODs to explore; some are much worse than Murph, and others are simpl...
CrossFit and functional training dictionary: Vocabulary, acronyms and abbreviations
Imagine you leave home or arrive at your workplace and everyone speaks a language unknown to you. The same thing happens when you land in a box. You’ve probably heard things like: “What do those in...
How to remove hand calluses for CrossFit
Whatever activity you perform with your hands, skin wear and wounds accumulate until calluses form. When you do CrossFit training the friction on the hands with each repetition is maximal. For that...
50 gift ideas for your favorite CrossFit and Hyrox athletes
Whether you're excited or anxious about the Christmas madness, your favorite CrossFit athletes are expecting gifts. From training shoes, weightlifting belts, chocolate protein or paleo snacks, deci...
50 At-Home CrossFit Workouts: WODs You Can Do With No Gym
Yes, you can do CrossFit at home without giving up the intensity or variety of the box. In this guide you'll find 50 at-home CrossFit WODs, organised by type and level: from the classic benchmark W...
Before getting into the specific process of how to adjust your jump rope according to your height, it's important to understand why the correct jump rope length makes the difference. Using a poorly...
Choosing the right jump rope can make all the difference in your CrossFit performance. Whether you're trying to nail your double unders, working on your speed, or prepping for competitions, your ro...
Rules change. Interpretation tightens. Enforcement varies by stage and by head judge.The only approach that never fails: follow the current CrossFit Rulebook, the workout scorecards, and the head j...
10 WODs Every CrossFitter Should Try at Least Once
CrossFit is a methodology of training that seeks to develop all physical capacities: cardiovascular endurance, muscular endurance, strength, flexibility, power, speed, coordination, agility, balanc...