The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has led to the cancelation or postponement of many CrossFit competitions including the postponements of the CrossFit Italian Showdown, the CrossFit German ... Continue Reading
2020 Rogue Invitational Will Now Be Held Online on June 13-14
The 2020 Rogue Invitational is one of multiple CrossFit Sanctionals® competitions that has been postponed due to the ongoing coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. On March 18th, it was announced that ... Continue Reading
14 CrossFit Games Women Reveal Their Daily Macros
While you can’t paint all elite CrossFit women with the same dietary brush, I thought I’d investigate to find out how similar, or different, their diets really are. BarBend spoke with 14 female athletes ... Continue Reading
2020 CrossFit Events Canceled or Postponed Due To Coronavirus (Updated)
With more and more events being either canceled, postponed, or otherwise affected by the coronavirus pandemic, we at BarBend decided it would be helpful to have a continuously updated list of CrossFit ... Continue Reading
Coronavirus Lockdown Causes 2020 CrossFit Italian Showdown to Move Online
According to a press release by CrossFitHQ, the CrossFit Italian Showdown scheduled for April 24th-26th at the Riccione Play Hall in Northern Italy will now take place online instead due to the ... Continue Reading
2020 Dubai CrossFit Championship Will Have New Format
Per ArmenHammerTV's exclusive, the 2020 Dubai CrossFit Championship (DCC) will have a significantly different format from not only years' past championships, but also from almost any other CrossFit Games ... Continue Reading
Kazakhstan and Bolivia National Champions Receive CrossFit Games Invites
CrossFit HQ shared a press release yesterday confirming that the male and female national champions of both Kazakhstan and Bolivia are eligible to compete at the 2020 Reebok CrossFit Games in August and ... Continue Reading
The CrossFit Games Has Undeleted its Facebook Page
Ten months after loudly deleting their account, CrossFit is back on Facebook! In one of the more bizarre entries in CrossFit’s ling list of public beefs — which includes their feuds with Big Soda ... Continue Reading
Why Is CrossFit Focusing On Senior Citizens?
If you’ve been following CrossFit for a while, there’s a chance you’ve noticed a significant change in the company’s focus in the last year or so. We’re not exactly talking about the changes made to the ... Continue Reading
Meet Heather Pivoras and the CrossFit Coach Who Helped Transform her Life
When Heather Pivoras arrived at CrossFit Murray in Kentucky seven years ago, she was down and out. “I was in an abusive relationship. My self-esteem was at an all-time low. I had a hard time looking in ... Continue Reading
Meet the Filipino National CrossFit Champion Robin Jaramillo
Robin Jaramillo has competed in the CrossFit Open every single year since 2013, always competing for the United States. This year, 29-year-old Jaramillo—a citizen of the Philippines, whose parents were ... Continue Reading
Meet Sana’a Mandar: The First Moroccan Woman to Compete at the CrossFit Games
In 2019, Sana'a Mandar became the first woman to represent Morocco at the CrossFit Games. “The feeling of accomplishment and pride to be the first woman to represent my country in such a prestigious ... Continue Reading
Meet CrossFit Games Athlete Nastassia Kaddour: Breaking New Ground for Covered Women
This summer, Natassia Kaddour will become the first Algerian woman to compete at the CrossFit Games in Madison, Wisconsin. Born in Algiers, Algeria in 1992, the 27-year-old moved to the United Arab ... Continue Reading
Norwegian CrossFit Championship Results: Qualifiers and More
The global journey to the 2020 CrossFit Games made its latest stop in Gol, Norway for the 2020 Norwegian CrossFit Championship. The fans in attendance of this Sanctional were pleased with the action and ... Continue Reading
How to Watch the 2020 Norwegian CrossFit Championship Sanctionals
The seventh CrossFit Sanctionals competition kicks off this weekend from the snowy mountains in Gol, Norway, and yes, we literally mean mountains. That's right, the Norwegian CrossFit Championship ... Continue Reading
We Interviewed Mat Fraser to Learn Everything About His Diet
We don’t really track anything specifically, I don’t really adhere to any specific diet like Paleo or keto or anything like that. We have a ballpark number in terms of what we’re striving for with ... Continue Reading
Lefteris Theofanidis Is In Breach of the CrossFit Games Drug Testing Policy
According to the press release from CrossFit HQ, Lefteris Theofanidis is in breach of the CrossFit Games Drug Testing Policy. The release states that Theofanidis "tested positive for banned substances ... Continue Reading
Brooke Ence is Returning to CrossFit Competition in 2020
In popular culture, Brooke Ence may be one of the better known CrossFit® athletes, due in part to her well publicized appearance in the Wonder Woman movie, the time she competed against Mattie Rogers and ... Continue Reading
2020 CrossFit Mayhem Classic Results and Recap
This weekend, the first CrossFit Sanctionals competition for 2020 wrapped up down in Cookeville, Tennessee. The CrossFit Mayhem Classic kicked off on Friday and ran through Sunday and it was an ... Continue Reading
2020 CrossFit Mayhem Classic Sanctional Preview
The CrossFit season is well underway but the first Sanctional of 2020 is set to take place this weekend. The inaugural Mayhem Classic will be taking place January 10-12 in Cookeville, Tennessee and is the ... Continue Reading
10 Most Memorable CrossFit Games Moments of 2019
Coming up with the 10 best CrossFit moments of 2019 was a tall order, as there were so many potential directions I could have gone, so many different inspiring athletes I could have focused on—Games ... Continue Reading
CrossFit Games Competitor James Newbury Is Fully Vegan
James Newbury, who finished 5th in the 2019 CrossFit Games, has been sharing a lot of posts about his meals on his Instagram page recently, foods rich in cruciferous vegetables like purple cabbage, fruits ... Continue Reading
Biggest Lifts From 2019 Dubai CrossFit Championship
The 2019 CrossFit Dubai Championship finished up on December 14th and the results saw Sara Sigmundsdottir, Brent Fikowski, and team MisFit M10 Performance claim victory in the women's, men's, and ... Continue Reading
Sara Sigmundsdottir and Brent Fikowski Win 2019 Dubai CrossFit Championship
After four days of competition and 11 events for Individuals and Teams, the 2019 Dubai CrossFit Championship has determined its winners. Sara Sigmundsdottir and Brent Fikowski walked away with the titles ... Continue Reading