Anchored At Harbor Park Crossfit

This week’s episode is all about the HPCF Intramural Open!   So what exactly is the Intramural Open? This is our 2nd year, and it is meant to just be fun with friends! It all starts with you registering for our Intramural Open. We will appoint 4 HPCF Ambassador members to go around the gym... Read More

The crew discuss the many pros & cons of juice cleansing and intermittent fasting. Both seem to be all the rage right now. But, juice cleansing sometimes have a negative connotation about them… People sometimes misconstrue a juice cleanse as a weight loss scheme… But believe it or not, juice cleansing can actually help repair... Read More

  “What exactly is the CrossFit Open?” Yes, it’s that time of year again… The time of year that many of us live for! The biggest online competition of the year! “Whoa! Wait a minute! Competition?!” We know, this seems intimidating at first, but we can assure you, it may be that one thing that... Read More

 The evolution of Thursday programming Every once and-a-while our team looks at how the programming for the gym is progressing. We discuss how we can continue to evolve to make the programming, the gym, and the learning experience to be as fun as possible. If you’ve been here since the beginning, or maybe you’ve... Read More

We are back for our first episode of 2019! We hope you all had an awesome New Year! In this episode, we are recapping all the awesome things that took place in 2018, and then, we are talking about some of the awesomeness coming your way in 2019! A special note: This is the year... Read More

This week we sat down with Maggie Picazo to discuss her health and wellness journey; how she found CrossFit, what obstacles she’s faced, and how she has remained focused and determined to continue. Last year, one of Maggie’s videos got a lot of exposure after CrossFit.com re-posted it, and Maggie gained a lot of friends... Read More

Episode 39 we sit down with special guest coach Blair Chapman and discuss CrossFIt programming and our gym’s programming in a little more detail than most of our members typically get into. When you look at the whiteboard on a given day or week, things might seem pretty random, but it’s actually much more detailed... Read More

Episode 38 is all about New Years Resolutions! As January 1st approaches, a lot of us start to look at 2019 and what we plan to accomplish. In this episode we discuss how to set better and smarter resolutions and we give helpful tips on how to stick to your resolutions better! Here’s to making... Read More

As a gym (and staff) that believes in always being the best as possible, values are something that have driven us from the beginning. We have always had values, however over the past few months we realized that we weren’t doing a great job of living by them. They were there, and something we referred... Read More

For episode 36 we are extremely excited to share our conversation with special guest Carl Paoli. We had the opportunity to host Carl for two of his seminars earlier in November, and he graciously sat down with us to chat. A little background on Carl: He grew up with ambitions of being an olympic gymnast,... Read More

Why do we fail?… and more importantly, Why we must learn to fail early, fail often and fail forward. Failure has a negative connotation to it. We are all fearful of failure, but in reality there is nothing to be feared! Failure is a learning tool. We fail because this is how we learn. Think... Read More

On Episode 34 we are taking on the Holidays! This episode is all about managing the craziness of the holiday’s, specifically busier schedules, stress from all of the running around, and most importantly, how to keep your nutrition in check during all of it. If you are anything resembling a normal human, you probably experience... Read More

How do you deal with bad days? The crew gets vulnerable this week as they share some stories from their personal lives, including how and why they have bad days and how they handle them. If you find that you are having more bad days than normal, be sure to tune in and hopefully you... Read More

Dr. Eddie is back this week to discuss another movement fix with Coaches Jason, Dave & Corian. This week the group discuss the snatch, specifically why we snatch, what typically goes wrong, and how we can fix those issues. The snatch is one of the most complicated movements, therefore risk of injury is also increased.... Read More

Episode 30 is all about our 3rd Annual Shipwreck competition that we held on September 29th. We had an absolute blast hosting so many great competitors and like normal we walked away with so many positive things stuck in our head. We talk about the competition itself, what stood out to us and who stood... Read More

This week we are announcing some exciting changes to test week and some minor changes to our programming, specifically around the levels program. The changes we discuss originate from Coach Andy who was trying to find a way to get everyone more excited about test week, and we think this new format will definitely help... Read More

Episode 28 is here and we are going over the importance of community, and why the CrossFit community is just so stinking awesome. If you are a member of HPCF, or for any CrossFit gym for that matter, then you most likely already know. There’s just something special about how everyone pulls together during the... Read More

This week on Anchored we talk about the big news surrounding the CrossFit Games – the recent changes that were announced surrounding the regionals format and what we can expect going forward. Bottom line – we aren’t exactly sure, but we are optimistic about what is to come. Just like anything in CrossFit, we must... Read More

We are back with another week of podcasting – this time Coach / Dr Ed joins us again for another movement fix. Although it is not a movement, persay, we decided it would be very beneficial to go over and break down midline stability – what it is, why it’s important, and where we see... Read More

Can you believe we are at episode 25 already? That’s almost half a year of podcasting!! For this milestone episode we brought it back around to nutrition – we decided to get a little deeper with food tracking/logging and finish the episode off with some helpful tips for new and exciting food recipes. In this... Read More