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How did you do last year? Did you make the masters qualifier or the regionals team as you had set out to do at the beginning of the year? Did you hit that 200lb snatch or get the sub-four minute ... Continue Reading

Rich Froning and Sam Briggs won the CrossFit Liftoff. Zzzzzz. The Games website described the event as: “[A]n online, three-event competition consisting of different weight classes allowing ... Continue Reading

On the 12th of November, 2015, two-time CrossFit Games competitor and GRID athlete with the Boston Iron Lindy Barber announced she was moving to Tennessee to join Rich Froning’s team, CrossFit Mayhem ... Continue Reading

In Part One of this series, I discussed gender inequality in CrossFit and in women’s sports at large. It takes more for women to have an equal playing field with men - the “more” being a hypersexualized ... Continue Reading

Sex sells. The axiom I put forth is that in CrossFit, with a few exceptions, a female athlete is more likely to get noticed, develop a following, and be able to craft a brand if she conforms to the “sex ... Continue Reading

Hey CrossFitters, have you ever noticed that we rarely call “shenanigans” on ourselves? As a tribe, we love to do a lot of outrageous, experimental, and potentially dangerous things, photograph them, and ... Continue Reading

On August 31, 2015, Becky Sefscik took her own life. Becky was a former United States Navy shipmate, and a coach at CrossFit The Tracks in Erlanger, Kentucky. She was a friend to many, a sister, and a ... Continue Reading

When we were kids, we all had contests in the pool to see who could hold his or her breath the longest. That’s a rite of passage as a kid in summer, claiming your spot as the reigning champ of underwater ... Continue Reading

When I competed in the CrossFit Games in 2011, the competition area that was set up in the StubHub Center (then known as the Home Depot Center) was “Parking Lot 17.” I had hit the big time. Painted parking ... Continue Reading

Andre Miller Executes a Perfect V-Sit Andre Miller Executes a Perfect V-Sit Featured Article of the Week: The Most Memorable Fitness Swindles of the Last 30 Years - Andrew Read takes you on a ... Continue Reading

Sometimes it’s hard to go to the gym. Work stress creeps in. Obligations begin to take over. Maybe a nagging injury flares. I know I have my excuses. After I met Joe Fonseca I started to suck it up ... Continue Reading

I flunked out. The past four years of pursuing professional baseball at all costs was valiant in effort, against the odds, but I fell short of my ultimate goal. Much like my collegiate clock ran out in ... Continue Reading

Feedback on the The Max Effort Black Box System has been terrific. Thank you to everyone who has purchased it for supporting Breaking Muscle. Watch for more ebooks and programming in the near ... Continue Reading

In 1965, daredevil Evel Knievel made his first motorcycle jump, jumping his bike forty feet over boxes of rattlesnakes. In 1974, he attempted to jump his “skycycle” over the Snake River Canyon, three ... Continue Reading

In 2013, Hyundai released a viral video advertisement that depicted a man attempting to commit suicide in his car. He gets into the Hyundai in his garage, turns on the engine, and forlornly begins to ... Continue Reading

CrossFit, Inc., is out to rewrite the script of fitness worldwide - more so than they have already, which is a lot. CrossFit has truly revolutionized the fitness industry and I have never been reticent ... Continue Reading

With the proliferation of CrossFit gyms on nearly every corner, competition for your dollars has become fierce. You, the customer, sit in an advantageous position in being able to select where you take ... Continue Reading

If you believed in an organization so strongly that you would stand up to defend it against your own friends and family, would you also then assume that organization would stand up for you? According to ... Continue Reading

Back in about 2010, I discovered OPT (now OPEX) training as an alternative to straight-up CrossFit. The Optimum Performance Training system, created by the first CrossFit Games winner James FitzGerald, was ... Continue Reading

A new client came in last week who had been doing CrossFit for over six months and was unable to do a good push up. This got me thinking, “What had he been doing for the last six months?” It obviously ... Continue Reading

During this most recent CrossFit Open, I decided to run a little experiment: take three athletes, all from different backgrounds, and measure certain physiological markers as they made their way through ... Continue Reading

“We don't rise to the level of our expectations; we fall to the level of our training.” - Archilochus If you followed the CrossFit Super Regional competitions, you're probably aware that Julie Foucher ... Continue Reading

Every year, when the CrossFit Games Regionals come around, there are athletes watching on their computers at home or from the stands at the events who know they would be one of the top individual finishers ... Continue Reading

In less than twenty years, CrossFit founder Greg Glassman has built what is arguably the most successful fitness entity ever. Not only has CrossFit created the biggest fitness community in history, ... Continue Reading