Travis is back and recovered from the CrossFit Games. He is still thinking about what happened and processing it all in his mind, though.

With the Olympic Games starting this week, we couldn't help but bring out some of our best posts on Olympic athletes and events. Enjoy these articles and the Games!

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The anticipation is over as the London 2012 Olympics will officially begin tonight with the opening ceremony. Check in every day at 4pm from now through 8/12 for your Olympic Games recap!

Holley is in London! This week Holley deals with jet lag and adjusting to London, while enjoying the environment of the Olympic Village and the endless supply of Coke Zero.

Get pumped to sit down and watch the opening ceremonies of the 2012 London Olympics Games by watching this amazing, heart-pounding highlight reel of the 2008 Beijing Games.

Bret Contreras has become a habitual training partner as of late and we’re having a great time talking shop and making plans to take over the world between sets.

I was always chubby growing up. Until I decided I was standing in the way of my own dreams. Learn how I went from 220lb video game addict to running a half-marathon and lifting weights.

When did fitness get so complicated? And have we even gotten it right, or have we just messed it up beyond repair? What if fitness looked like when we were kids, when we played in community settings?

New research shows the benefit of supplementing your strength training with both creatine and conjugated linoleic acid (CLA).

Chances are if you train BJJ, you've been on the receiving end of a rear naked choke. Have you ever wondered what physiological mechanisms of the choke are? Why you actually pass out?

Learning the Olympic lifts is only possible after the lifter knows the positions at the completion of each movement. This article focuses on three exercises that teach the “feeling” of the bottom.

Plummeting to death or crushing the brain falling out of crow pose is highly unlikely, as in, probably not likely at all. But we have a fear we hold on to that holds us back. Learn how to let this go.

Terrance Gant is a former Marine, football coach, and strength and conditioning coach. He is the man behind our Sport Specific Workouts for football. Find out how Terrance got to be Terrance.

New research shows brief, daily Kirtan Kriya yoga meditations can reduce inflammation in our bodies and help prevent diseases such as cardiovascular disease and depression.

Bob Takano explains why you don't necessarily have to be able to get your whole hand around the bar when you clean and jerk, using the example of Olympic weightlifter Dan Cantore.

Looking to mix up your at-home workout routine? Linda LaRue's Core Transformer series offers a unique and effective total body workout.

Getting sore is not the goal. The goal is to make you better tomorrow (or maybe the day after tomorrow) than you were today. Placing exercises in the correct order has a massive effect.

As the Olympics approach let's look back at the evolution of swimming since the 1896 Games, and also what are the "must watch" events on the Olympic swimming event schedule.