If you're looking for evidence that CrossFit HQ and Dave Castro are programing with drama and entertainment in mind, look no further than individual Event 7 from the 2016 CrossFit Regionals. Since ... Continue Reading
These CrossFitters’ Dogs Steal the Spotlight from Their Famous Owners
CrossFit Regionals season is great, but it’s just so...much...fitness. Midway through the last weekend, I’m exhausted from watching all the fitness and looking forward to an AMRAP nap with a dog, ... Continue Reading
Attention Strongmen: (Split) Jerks Needed!
While weightlifting calls for highly specialized athletes who have narrowed their focus to just two lifts, a Strongman must be a jack of all trades, capable of a multitude of ever changing tasks. This ... Continue Reading
Anthropology 101: A Cultural Anthropologist Walks into a Gym
Editors note: Katie Hejtmanek, Ph.D. is a cultural anthropologist conducting research on the culture of strength sports in the United States. This is the first of an in-depth series introducing ... Continue Reading
Trading Money for Abs: My Journey from Corporate Banker to CrossFit Trainer
Four o'clock in the morning is an interesting time. For some, it signals the end of an epic if not precarious night. For others, it marks the beginning of a long and grueling day. Six years ago, I was ... Continue Reading
CrossFit Regionals Week 3: Experts Predict Top Women (& James Hobart’s Games Picks)
This is it, the last Regional weekend of the season, and our last chance to play our little Regionals speculation game. If you’ve been following along, you may have noticed that some of us are much better ... Continue Reading
Some Guy Just Created an Ultimate Database for WODs
We may be a little bit biased, but there seems to be a higher percentage of awesome people in the fitness community than in everyday life. Someone is always coming out with some new piece of equipment or ... Continue Reading
Strike Movement Chill Pill 2 Review: A New Athletic Standard?
Attention around movement has been growing as more people become interested in understanding the human body, health, performance, and physical expression. Many influencers of this culture — like Ido ... Continue Reading
Developing Pre-Weightlifters: How to Build a Foundation
What sports give us the biggest advantage for weightlifting? From 2010 to 2011 I was the coach of Innercity Weightlifting (ICW) in Boston. Our group’s mission was to help at-risk youth get away from ... Continue Reading
CrossFit Bans Laura Phelps-Sweatt, Disqualifies Westside Conjugate from Competition
In a post published on the Games website, CrossFit has announced that Laura Phelps-Sweatt is banned from sanctioned competition for one year. Her team — Westside Conjugate, which was scheduled to ... Continue Reading
Can Eddie Hall Become the First Man to Deadlift 500 kg (1,100 pounds)?
In a Facebook post on May 21st, pro strongman Eddie Hall made a bold claim: At a new, heavier bodyweight and with the aid of a deadlift suit (which he'd previously never used), he would become the ... Continue Reading
Zeke Grove Is Australia’s Next CrossFit Games Star
The 2016 CrossFit Regionals have included plenty of surprises, including sure-thing veterans missing out on qualification and fresh faces proving more than capable enough to take their spots. If you tuned ... Continue Reading
How to Watch the 2016 Russian Weightlifting Championships
If you want to watch one of the world's top weightlifting federations hold a stacked national championships, you're in luck: The Russian Weightlifting Championships are streaming for free on YouTube. The ... Continue Reading
Report: Nadezhda Evstyukhina Tests Positive from Beijing Olympics, Banned from Rio
On May 17th, news broke that several Russian weightlifters — including reigning World Champion and clean & jerk World Record holder Aleksey Lovchev — had received competition bans between four and ... Continue Reading
3 Practical Tips for Busy Weightlifters
Odds are that most of you reading this article have a job, career, family, or other responsibilities that interfere with training. Weightlifting is a very demanding sport, and mixing it together with other ... Continue Reading
Will the IWF Announce an 8th Women’s Weight Class in 2016?
The first Women's World Weightlifting Championship was held in 1987, and women lifted at the Olympics for the first time at the 2000 Sydney Games. But while the sport's popularity has skyrocketed for ... Continue Reading
Not Qualifying Could Be Great for CrossFit Games Hopeful Chandler Smith
There’s always one breakout star of the CrossFit Regionals, and this year, it's Chandler Smith. Though we still have one weekend to go in this 2016 Regionals season, we doubt we’ll see anyone match ... Continue Reading
Kianoush Rostami Breaks 85kg Clean & Jerk Record in Training
Iran's Kianoush Rostami has won two World Championships as an 85kg lifter, and he finished second at the 2015 World Weightlifting Championships in Houston (oh, and we won Bronze at the 2012 London Olympics ... Continue Reading
Are the Andersons CrossFit’s First Games Dynasty?
By definition, a dynasty is a family of rulers, with subsequent generations — or members within the same generation — passing the torch down from one to the next. And in spots terms, "dynasty" refers to ... Continue Reading
USA Powerlifting Nationals Results and Winners (and a 1,014 lb Squat)
USA Powerlifting Nationals was held from May 20-22nd in Colorado, and in case you missed the live streams, unofficial results and winners are already up on the USAPL's site via Google Spreadsheet. There ... Continue Reading
CrossFit Regionals Week 1 & 2: Top 5 Scores On Each Event Regardless of Region
Like last week, we've put all the athletes head to head to head to see who places in the top 5 for each event. Kara Webb still dominates with 4 appearances in the top 5, with Emily Bridgers coming in ... Continue Reading
“CrossFit Games Need More Chest Hair” (And Other Week 2 Gems)
Another week of Regionals, another week of FUBAR comments in the live youtube chat. While last week brought us some gems, particularly relating to Kara Webb and her past life as a kangaroo herder, ... Continue Reading
7 CrossFit Games Events We Haven’t Seen Yet (But Probably Will)
Every July, Dave Castro and the rest of the CrossFit Games team (okay, mostly Castro) throw a mix of the familiar and flat-out unexpected at athletes over a grueling 5+ day test. We see a combination of ... Continue Reading
How to Watch the 2016 Canadian Weightlifting National Championships
If you're looking for a place to watch the 2016 Canadian (Senior) National Championships in weightlifting, you're in luck: The event is live-streamed on YouTube thanks to the British Columbia Weightlifting ... Continue Reading