functional fitness

The ability to escape a dangerous situation is the most serious display of functional fitness, but our fitness comes in to play in all aspects of our day.

Sometimes we get caught in a trap of coaching the coachable. Nurturing the rock stars, while we allow the less coachable to fade.

Mixing and matching from boxes and CrossFit celebs is a prescription for failure. Seeking out the most heinous crush-fest is just plain reckless.

An on-ramp teaches foundational movements, but it also teaches the language of CrossFit, lowers injury rates, and welcomes clients into your culture.

Your mission as a CrossFit coach is to challenge the client in your gym, get them stronger, and lead them on the path to mastery and competence.

Structuring the benchmark Girls as time-constrained tests provides a method to help your athletes mature into accomplished CrossFitters.

Cry, bleed, vomit, but don’t stop. And, yes, if you find the idea of breaking your neck a problem, we don’t care to associate with your kind.

I have proven for the third time that I am one of the twenty fittest men in the world. I’ll be damned. I’ll take that.

Overnight we went from a world where everybody could claim to be a CrossFit coach to a world where nobody can.

It's refreshing not just to see the glamor, but also the grit and the grief that inevitably comes along the way.

I enjoy reading articles by the Breaking Muscle coaches about their perspective on the Games. From them, three common themes emerge.

Here are all the 2014 CrossFit Games individual workouts all in once place. We've also added our notes on scaling and strategy so anyone can attempt these.

You may know the reigning champs, but do you know who won each year? And how it all started on a little farm in Northern California?

Here are all the 2014 CrossFit Games team workouts all in once place, along with our notes on how to adapt and strategize.

Place quality over quantity now so that you continue to make gains in strength, work capacity, mobility, and overall fitness.

We are analyzing the WODs and looking for ways to adapt them so that we can all join in this annual celebration of the power of CrossFit.

This is my third trip to the CrossFit Games. As such, I am in the experienced old-timer camp rather than the overly anxious first-time athlete category.