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2025 CrossFit Open Registration Numbers

Nearly 200,000 CrossFit Open Participants From 2024 Did Not Return in 2025

Before we start: CrossFit Open workout 25.2 was a repeat of 22.3 — was your score better or worse this time around?  CrossFit is observable, measurable, and repeatable. Over the years, a repeat workout ... Continue Reading

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Mikaela Norman Finds Her Next Adventure in HYROX After 10 Years of CrossFit 

It was love at first sight for Mikaela Norman when she first stepped onto the HYROX racing course.  After 10 years of CrossFit, the Swedish athlete switched to HYROX and hasn’t looked back.  Her ... Continue Reading

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How to Watch CrossFit Open Announcement 25.2

CrossFit Open workout 25.2 is live! Get the full details and tips from top coaches! Week two of the 2025 CrossFit Open kicks off with the live announcement of workout 25.2 on Thursday, March 6, on the ... Continue Reading

2025 CrossFit Open Registration Numbers

2025 CrossFit Open Registrations Down 32%; Lowest Total Since 2014

CrossFit Open workout 25.1 is done, and the results are in.  While many are pondering their own fitness level, the leaderboard, as always, also highlights overall registration and ... Continue Reading

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2025 CrossFit Games Prize Purse to Decrease ~30% From 2024 

The 2025 CrossFit Games prize purse is estimated to be about $1 million lower than last year. This estimate is based on total Open registrations after the sign-up window closed.  As of 8:00 ... Continue Reading

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Drag Racing Champion Antron Brown Uses CrossFit to Stay Fit Physically and Mentally

Drag racing and CrossFit might not sound like a match — but for Antron Brown, four-time NHRA drag racing champion, the two complement each other perfectly.  Brown, 48, recently added CrossFit movement ... Continue Reading

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3 Guaranteed Ways To Crush the CrossFit Open This Year

Powered By: The CrossFit Open is here — a time when athletes worldwide test their limits, whether aiming for the CrossFit Games or engaging in friendly competition at their local box.  To ... Continue Reading

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From CrossFit to HYROX Elite: Champ Lauren Weeks Balances Motherhood and Training for Worlds

Current HYROX female world record holder and three-time world champion Lauren Weeks is in the thick of her HYROX season.  Weeks is simultaneously chasing around her toddler and coaching other ... Continue Reading

2025 CrossFit Open regisrations

2025 CrossFit Open Registration Continues to Lag, Competitive Regions Hold Steady Year-Over-Year

The 2025 CrossFit Open begins on February 27. Register here. Over the last few weeks, we have been on a journey together, tracking the day-by-day numbers for the 2025 CrossFit Open registration ... Continue Reading

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How to Watch CrossFit Open Announcement 25.1

The first live CrossFit Open announcement of the 2025 season is coming in hot on Thursday, February 27, at 12:00 PT/3:00 p.m. ET. And we’ve got all the details you need to know heading into the event. ... Continue Reading

Why We’re Sticking With CrossFit: Scaled Nation

In June 2018, I sat in CrossFit HQ’s offices, about to record an episode of the CrossFit Podcast.  I had no idea who was interviewing me, no clue who owned the company, and no recognition of names ... Continue Reading

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Association of Fitness Judges Holds First-Ever Seminar in 2025

“You guys have the hardest job out there” – Khan Porter The Association of Fitness Judges (AFJ) held its first Seminar in Miami Beach, FL, just before the 2025 TYR Wodapalooza Miami. The AFJ was ... Continue Reading

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Emma Lawson to Sit Out 2025 CrossFit Open, Focus on World Fitness Project

Emma Lawson, the teen phenom turned elite individual, announced on Friday that she plans to sit out of the 2025 CrossFit Open, citing a nagging injury. She is still preparing for the World Fitness Project ... Continue Reading

2025 CrossFit Open Registrations

2025 CrossFit Open Registration Lags, Games Set for Lower Prize Purse

The Open begins in 8 days. Register here. We are just over one week away from the start of the 2025 CrossFit Open and less than two weeks to the submission deadline for 25.1, on Monday, March ... Continue Reading

CrossFit Open 25.3

CrossFit Open Announcement 25.3: First Look and Predictions

The third and final week of the 2025 CrossFit Open will start with the 25.3 live announcement, where three of the best male athletes in the sport will throw down against each other: James Sprague, Dallin ... Continue Reading

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2025 CrossFit Training Camp Preview: Underdogs Athletics

When you picture an intense and animated coach yelling and pouring every ounce of emotion and energy into their athletes on the competition floor, you are imagining Justin Cotler.  And like so many ... Continue Reading

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Why We Are De-Affiliating: CrossFit New England

Editor’s Note: Several weeks ago, Ben Bergeron (CF-L4) announced to his CrossFit New England community that his gym, CFNE, would be de-affiliating from CrossFit. CFNE was established in 2007 and has ... Continue Reading

CrossFit Open Announcement 25.2: First Look and Predictions

Week two of the CrossFit Open will kick off with the 25.2 announcement in Arizona with two notable elite women athletes going head-to-head:   This is Wells's second live Open announcement; her ... Continue Reading

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2025 CrossFit Training Camp Preview: Invictus

In 2023, Team Invictus, comprised of Josh Al-Chamaa, Jorge Fernandez, Devyn Kim, and Brittany Weiss, put on a show at the CrossFit Games in Madison.  With the members of that squad going their ... Continue Reading

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PRVN Fitness Brings in HYROX Coach James Kelly to Launch New Program

Training for a HYROX race?  PRVN Fitness picked Australian HYROX athlete and coach James Kelly to write the program and prepare athletes of varying levels for race day.  This isn’t the first ... Continue Reading

CrossFit Open Registration

2025 CrossFit Open Registration Numbers Climb Slowly 

The Open begins in 16 days. Register here. We are just two weeks away from the start of the 2025 CrossFit Open and more than halfway to the submission deadline for 25.1, on Monday, March ... Continue Reading

CrossFit Open 25.1

CrossFit Open Announcement 25.1: First Look and Predictions

Fans are in for an exciting first live 2025 CrossFit Open announcement, which will feature three athletes who finished in the top 10 at the 2024 CrossFit Games, including: All three athletes come from ... Continue Reading

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Lumen: A “Wellness Era” Tool for Metabolic Health

POWERED BY: If you’re not waking up chugging a green juice, rubbing your face with beef tallow, or using a smartwatch to track your REM cycle, are you even in the year 2025?  This brings us to ... Continue Reading

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CrossFit Athlete Council to Conduct Community Survey

The CrossFit Athlete Council (CAC) Individual/Coach Committee has released a “community questionnaire” to gather feedback for ongoing meetings the council is having with CrossFit HQ and the Games ... Continue Reading

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