Reaching the pinnacle of one strength sport — powerlifting, Olympic weightlifting, CrossFit, strongman, bodybuilding — is a monumental feat. Becoming the top dog in more than one strength sport is a ... Continue Reading
Torian Pro CrossFit Semifinal Results and Recap: Who Is Going to the Games?
With COVID-19 restrictions beginning to ease in many parts of the world, CrossFit has opted to hold five of its 10 Semifinals in-person leading up to the 2021 Games. The Torian Pro was held over the ... Continue Reading
How to Watch the 2021 CrossFit Games Semifinals
Fans and athletes are one step closer to the ultimate competition in CrossFit. On May 28, the four-week-long Semifinals will kick-off to decide who the 38 men, women, and teams (plus two more men and women ... Continue Reading
Here’s What Affiliate Owners Think of CrossFit’s New OnRamp Course
“But I’m not fit enough to start CrossFit.” It’s a phrase CrossFit affiliate owners and coaches hear regularly. After a year of lockdowns, online classes, and pivoting gym structures, CrossFit ... Continue Reading
Companion Legislation For the Gym Mitigation and Survival Act Introduced In Senate
The gym industry has a long way to go to make up for the damage caused by COVID-19 over the past year, but it got another push in the right direction on Thursday, May 13, 2021. A companion piece of ... Continue Reading
Grab a Partner — CrossFit HQ Announces New PairUP ThrowDOWN Competition
On May 6, 2021, CrossFit HQ announced a brand new competition called PairUP ThrowDOWN that gives partners, teammates, and rivals the opportunity to, well, pair up to throw down. According to their press ... Continue Reading
Kari Pearce Named Among Winners of Rogue Fitness “Pump-N-Row” Challenge
Rogue Fitness has been offering a series of virtual challenges for fitness junkies. Rogue's last event, “The Cliffhanger Challenge,” tested grip strength while hanging from a pull-up bar, while the ... Continue Reading
Mayhem Freedom On Top — 2021 CrossFit Games Team Quarterfinals Results
The CrossFit Games Team Quarterfinals have come to a close, and the scores are in. Teams from six continents competed in five different workouts (known as tests) remotely that involved a massive amount of ... Continue Reading
Five 2021 CrossFit Games Semifinal Events Will Now Be Virtual
Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, CrossFit HQ decided to take the necessary safety precaution of shifting five of the CrossFit Games Semifinals events from in-person to virtual. The following two ... Continue Reading
Fitness Apparel Company NOBULL Raises Funding at $500 Million Valuation
The global COVID-19 pandemic hurt many CrossFit affiliates and other gyms due to lockdowns and various restrictions. However, it did not hurt the fitness apparel brand and title sponsor of the 2021 NOBULL ... Continue Reading
Mat Fraser and Buttery Bros Announce New Supplement Company “Podium”
The Buttery Bros — Heber Cannon and Marston Sawyers — are the documentarians who produced The Fittest on Earth Trilogy and operate a YouTube channel focused on CrossFit-related content. Recently, they ... Continue Reading
The 10 Best CrossFit Games Battles of All Time
Every year, the CrossFit Games tests the fitness and mettle of some of the most impressive athletes on earth. For the last 14 years, athletes of all shapes and sizes and from varying backgrounds have ... Continue Reading
Sydney Wells — Brooke Wells’ Twin Sister — Qualifies For the CrossFit Games Semifinals
Many of the notable names in the elite CrossFit space have stamped their ticket to the 2021 CrossFit Games Semifinals events set to occur both virtually and live on each of the six continents recognized by ... Continue Reading
CrossFit Quarterfinals Test 4 — The Benefits of Front Squats In Strength Sports
The benefits of the front squat are plentiful. They work the quads, upper back, spinal erectors, and abdominals. They offer more quad mass, greater knee-joint stability and can help improve other ... Continue Reading
On to the Semifinals — 2021 CrossFit Games Quarterfinals Results
At the conclusion of the 2021 CrossFit Open, the four-time Fittest Woman on Earth® Tia-Clair Toomey-Orr led the women, and 2020 CrossFit Games fifth-place finisher Jeffrey Adler led the men. After the ... Continue Reading
Emma Cary: Can a 16 Year-Old CrossFit Phenom Make This Year’s Podium?
Coming into the 2021 Open, most CrossFit fans probably didn't know much about Emma Cary. Diehard fans will recall that she was the 2019 CrossFit Games 14-15 Girls Champion. Some other fans may have heard ... Continue Reading
The 2021 CrossFit Open Is Over — Here’s Who Sits On Top of the Leaderboard
The 2021 CrossFit Open was a fast and furious three weeks, consisting of four workouts — 21.1, 21.2, and a combo deal of 21.3 and 21.4. The top 10 percent of athletes in each of the six regions (North ... Continue Reading
Strongman Rob Kearney Interviews 5-Time CrossFit Games Champion Mat Fraser
Strongman Rob Kearney is preparing for the 2021 strongman season following his recovery from surgery on his ruptured triceps. Since getting back to the gym, he's focused on winning trophies over breaking ... Continue Reading
Weightlifter Dmitry Klokov Tosses Around 330 Pounds In CrossFit Open Workout 21.4
On March 29, 2021, weightlifter Dmitry Klokov shared his results for CrossFit Open workouts 21.3 and 21.4. The workouts test different aspects of participants' fitness. 21.3 was an intense ... Continue Reading
2021 CrossFit Open Workouts 21.3 and 21.4 Announced
On March 25, 2021, the announcement for workouts 21.3 and 21.4 — the final workouts of the 2021 CrossFit Open — took place in a new time slot on the CrossFit Games YouTube channel. At 12 p.m. PST, as ... Continue Reading
2021 CrossFit Open Workout 21.2 Results
The 2021 CrossFit Open continued with dumbbell snatches and burpee box jump-overs for workout 21.2 and the results are in. Following the announcement of 21.2 — titled "Youth vs. Experience" — on March 18, ... Continue Reading
CrossFit Open Workout 21.2 Tips For Adaptive Upper Extremity Athletes
2021 CrossFit Open workout 21.2 is an exceptional challenge for Upper Extremity athletes. The workout standards and weights are all Rx, with the only difference being that the dumbbell snatches must all be ... Continue Reading
How To Watch The 2021 CrossFit Open Workout 21.3 Announcement
Both workouts 21.1 and 21.2 for the 2021 CrossFit Open have been announced. Both were revealed by the Director of the CrossFit Games, Dave Castro, on the CrossFit Games YouTube channel on March 11 and 19, ... Continue Reading
Use These Tips To Dominate CrossFit Open Workout 21.2
With last week's test, which included the wall walk, a movement that had previously never been done in the Open competition, we enter week number two using one of the important CrossFit training mantras: ... Continue Reading