From Wednesday to Saturday, Jan. 18-21, 2023, I participated in an athlete camp hosted at CrossFit Mayhem in Cookeville, Tennessee. About two dozen athletes who have competed at the Semifinal level or ... Continue Reading
2023 TYR Wodapalooza Team Event Preview: “Kitchen Sync — Part B”
The 2023 TYR Wodapalooza (WZA) in Miami, FL, occurs Jan. 13-15, 2023. The Teams division competition includes workouts that challenge the three-member teams to various fitness tests. The final event ... Continue Reading
CrossFit Performance of the Week: Luka Đukić’s Dominating Win at the 2023 SFA SandClash in Saudi Arabia
It was “no rest for the weary” for Luka Đukić when it came to competition as he rang in the New Year with a dominating victory at the 2023 Sports For All (SFA) SandClash. The two-day competition was held ... Continue Reading
2023 TYR Wodapalooza Individual Event Preview: “Start Fast & Finish Strong”
The 2023 Wodapalooza (WZA) competition will be flush with unique and diverse challenges for all of the top-tier athletes in attendance when it kicks off on Jan. 12 in Miami's Bayfront Park. The "Start Fast ... Continue Reading
2023 Wodapalooza Individual Event Preview: “We Have Lift Off”
The second announced workout for Individuals at the 2023 TYR Wodapalooza gives the athletes and fans what they want: a heavy barbell with a twist. The athletes have three attempts at a one-rep max clean ... Continue Reading
2023 Wodapalooza Team Event Preview: “3, 2, 1 Lift Off”
The men's and women's elite Team divisions are a major focus of the 2023 TYR Wodapalooza (WZA), taking place Jan. 12-15 in Miami, FL. These three-person squads will compete in several workouts over the ... Continue Reading
7 of the Best CrossFit Athletes in 2022
It's hard enough to possess elite strength, speed, or endurance. CrossFitters need to build up to all of these traits and then maintain them for the duration of their entire careers — which can span over a ... Continue Reading
5 of the Best CrossFit Moments in 2022
In a sport where intensity and mystery are par for the course, it isn't easy to hone in on a handful of exciting moments. However, the sport of CrossFit in 2022 saw enough loaded barbells, organizational ... Continue Reading
Karin Freyová Is a DFC Legend. Can She See Similar Success at the 2023 CrossFit Games?
Karin Freyová's name is forever etched in the Dubai Fitness Championship (DFC) history book. She placed fourth (2018), second (2019), and first (2022) in her last three appearances at the event — and in ... Continue Reading
Close Races and Questionable Calls Dominate Men’s Major CrossFit Off-Season Competitions
The CrossFit Games is the premier event that the entire competition calendar revolves around. It's an opportunity for newcomers to build their reputation in the sport and for veterans to cement their ... Continue Reading
Breaking Down Kara Saunders’ 10 Years of CrossFit Excellence
When Kara Saunders won the final event of the 2022 Rogue Invitational, there was plenty of history to take stock of. If this is indeed her last competitive season, and that is not confirmed, she would have ... Continue Reading
Who’s Winning Which CrossFit Events at the 2022 Rogue Invitational?
The 2022 Rogue Invitational released the descriptions for seven of their 10 scheduled CrossFit workouts on Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2022. Without knowing the exact details of each event, below is a look at each ... Continue Reading
A Preview of the Individual Men’s CrossFit Roster at the 2022 Rogue Invitational
Unlike the women’s field at the 2022 Rogue Invitational, every athlete invited from the men’s side — along with the top five qualifiers through the “Q” (Rogue’s online qualifying competition) — has ... Continue Reading
A Preview of the Individual Women’s CrossFit Roster at the 2022 Rogue Invitational
The leading storyline in the women's field at the 2022 Rogue Invitational CrossFit competition is obvious: For the first time ever, the champion will (most likely) not be named Tia-Clair Toomey. After ... Continue Reading
The 2022 CrossFit Games Introduced These New Movements
The 2022 NOBULL CrossFit Games marked a new era of programming. For the first time in Games history, former General Manager of Sport Dave Castro did not design the Games workouts and run-of-show. Instead, ... Continue Reading
2022 CrossFit Quarterfinals Team Results — Mayhem Freedom Victorious
The five Team workouts for the 2022 CrossFit Quarterfinals are complete, and the results are in. Team CrossFit Mayhem Freedom, led by four-time Fittest Man on Earth®, Rich Froning, won the top spot on the ... Continue Reading
2022 CrossFit Quarterfinals Results — Toomey and Medeiros Win Worldwide
The 2022 CrossFit Quarterfinals kicked off on March 24, 2022, and featured the top 10 percent of athletes from each continent on the 2022 CrossFit Open leaderboard. Given that only the top 120 individual ... Continue Reading
Stats With a Story: 3 Baseball Statistics That Could Change How CrossFit Tracks Athlete Performance
Sports statistics has a long history. In baseball, the use of stats goes back to the early 1800s but didn't really start to take shape until 1867 when a man named Henry Chadwick wanted to recognize batters ... Continue Reading
Interview: Noah Ohlsen on Winning Wodapalooza 2022, Battling COVID-19, and a Decade at the CrossFit Games
Noah Ohlsen is on the pursuit. On Jan. 16, the 2019 runner-up Fittest Man on Earth® handily won the team division of the 2022 Miami Wodapalooza (WZA) as part of his new competitive cohort "The Boys" ... Continue Reading
2022 Wodapalooza Online Challenge & Qualifier Begins Oct. 4, 2021
Wodapalooza — a four-day CrossFit® competition — will return on Jan. 13-16, 2022, in Miami, FL. The contest will feature many of the premier CrossFit athletes in the world vying for a massive prize purse ... Continue Reading
Guilherme Malheiros Is the Future Star CrossFit Needs
Most of the CrossFit community didn’t know what they’d get with Guilherme Malehiros on the roster at the 2021 CrossFit Games. But Brazil did. Twenty-one-year-old Malheiros grabbed attention from fans ... Continue Reading
2021 CrossFit Games Podium Predictions — Men, Women, and Teams
If they haven’t already arrived, many elite athletes will be descending upon Madison, WI. in the coming days to acclimate, prepare, and get their game face on for the 2021 NOBULL CrossFit Games, which take ... Continue Reading
Use CrossFit Open Results to Improve Your Programming and Fitness Routine
“The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.” -Marcus Aurelius The 2021 CrossFit Open has come to a close, and now we’re faced with our leaderboard positioning, an ... Continue Reading
I’m a Former CrossFit Games Athlete and Champion. Transitioning to “Normal” Fitness Wasn’t Easy
Exercise is something we have been told is important for a healthy lifestyle. Most people who exercise do it something like 2-5 days a week, an hour or so at a time, switching up their routines based on ... Continue Reading