The results of the 2022 CrossFit Team Quarterfinals are in the books, and Team Mayhem Freedom takes the top spot on the worldwide and North American leaderboards. The squad led by Four-time Fittest Man on ... Continue Reading
Here’s How 5-Time CrossFit Games Champion Tia-Clair Toomey is Eating to Cut Weight
To be a champion CrossFitter, you have to eat like a champion CrossFitter. On March 21, 2022 — mere days before the 2022 CrossFit Quarterfinals begin virtually on March 24 — five-time Fittest ... Continue Reading
CrossFit Open 2018: Best Programmed Ever
This year’s CrossFit Open kicked off on February 22 with WOD 18.1 and ended with final score submissions for with WOD 18.5 last week. As each Open WOD was announced, I offered you the same briefing I gave ... Continue Reading
Quick Tips For CrossFit Open WOD 18.5
This year’s CrossFit Open kicked off on February 22, with WOD 18.1 and is ending with WOD 18.5. As each Open WOD has been announced, I have provided you with the same briefing I give the athletes at my ... Continue Reading
Some Pre-CrossFit Games Reflections From Carson
This is my third trip to the CrossFit Games - 2011, 2013, and 2014. As such, I am in that “experienced old-timer” camp rather than the “overly anxious first-time athlete” category. I smile ever so slightly ... Continue Reading
Is CrossFit’s Definition of Fitness Flawed?
I think I may have found a flaw in CrossFit’s definition of fitness. Maybe this article will be overstating the obvious, or maybe it will be so blasphemous as to get me shivved. If someone comes up to me ... Continue Reading
3 Things I Learned While Sitting Out the CrossFit Games Open
The excitement of the CrossFit Open has passed and Thursday afternoons are once again just another run-of-the mill day. As the clock struck 5:00pm PST on March 31, CrossFitters around the world breathed a ... Continue Reading
Integrity in Competition: A Manifesto for Athletes, Coaches, and Judges
Competition can do strange things to people. I’ve seen it happen time and again. When the stakes are raised, the competitive claws come out - athletes go ape, coaches go crazy, judges get jumpy, and it can ... Continue Reading
Top 10 CrossFit Articles of 2013
This year we have covered a wide range of CrossFit subjects, from an even wider range of angles. You may have agreed with some, disagreed with a few, and perhaps had mixed feelings about the others. One ... Continue Reading
Athlete Journal: Pat McCarty, Entry 20 – 7/17/2013
EDITOR'S NOTE: Welcome to the athlete journal of CrossFit trainer and masters athlete Patrick McCarty. Patrick competed in the 2011 Reebok CrossFit Games in the 45-49 age bracket and has his sights set on ... Continue Reading
Athlete Journal: Ingrid Kantola, Entry 21 – 7/21/12
Read our other CrossFit Athlete Journals: Travis Holley and Michael Winchester Ingrid Kantola - Athlete Journal 7/21/12 (Read Ingrid's Bio here) 120713 Friday We arrived at the ... Continue Reading
Froning and Thorisdottir Win the CrossFit Games…Again!
Photo provided by Miguel Tapia Images. The fittest man and woman on Earth...remain the fittest man and woman on Earth. The 2012 CrossFit Games season came to a conclusion this past weekend in Carson, ... Continue Reading
It’s In the Practice – Trudging Forward in the Wake of the CrossFit Open
Now that the fanfare of the CrossFit Open is over, I feel like I’m in the middle of a deserted street after a parade. And I’ve just been handed a broom. The day after our last team Open workout, I ... Continue Reading
