May is Mental Health Awareness Month, and Forging Youth Resilience (FYR) is taking action to raise awareness. Last year, the nonprofit — which is dedicated to empowering youth to build mental and ... Continue Reading
Going Back to Cali: CrossFit Competition Returns to Carson for 2024 Semifinals
It was July 24, 2016, and Mat Fraser had just won the first of his five CrossFit Games championships. The electricity from the crowd was palpable as Katrín Davídsdóttir edged out a young ... Continue Reading
Affiliate of the Month: All Level CrossFit Doing All the Good Deeds in Ontario
For John Mack, the owner of All Level CrossFit in Windsor, Ontario, a focus on inclusivity has led his community to offer fitness to those who really need it while raising thousands of dollars for charity ... Continue Reading
Interview: 10-Time Champ Rich Froning on His Upcoming 100-Mile Bike Race (and Why He’ll Never Compete at the CrossFit Games Again)
Sponsored by: What does life look like for 10-time CrossFit Games champion Rich Froning these days in Cookeville, TN? We caught up with the legend himself to talk about his current training style, ... Continue Reading
Interview: Katelin Van Zyl Explains How Tech Issues Almost Cost Her a CrossFit Semifinals Spot
Heading into the 2024 Quarterfinals, Australia’s Katelin van Zyl was relaxed and ready to rumble. A mother to two young boys, van Zyl had arranged for her mom to be in town to care for the kids ... Continue Reading
Hip Replacement and Chronic Leukemia Are No Problem for 63-Year-Old CrossFit Quarterfinals Qualifier Mary Harrison
The day before the 2024 CrossFit Open started, Mary Harrison didn’t think she was going to compete. The 63-year-old had a hip replacement last June, and still isn’t 100 percent. But when the first ... Continue Reading
Interview: Andrea Nisler Talks About Qualifying for Semifinals 6 Weeks After Giving Birth
Andrea Nisler, twice a member of the Fittest Team on Earth (2021 and 2022), did most of the 2024 CrossFit Open while pregnant. Remind me: Individual Quarterfinals took place earlier this month, ... Continue Reading
After 27 Years in Prison, Trevor Jones Competes in Quarterfinals
Trevor Jones has done the CrossFit Open workouts for the last eight years, but he only registered for the first time this season. That’s because Jones did his seven other Opens in the midst of a 27-year ... Continue Reading
Don’t Call It a Comeback: Charley McAvoy Training for 100-Mile Race Only Months After Cancer Surgery
One softball size mass and 700 lesions were removed from endurance athlete Charley McAvoy last November. Now, just a few months post-op, he and his girlfriend, Sage Burgener, are already training for a ... Continue Reading
Interview: Is It Finally Anikha Greer’s Time?
Anikha Greer is tired. She is “tired of this circle” she has been living in since 2018, when she first missed qualifying for the CrossFit Games. She is tired of thinking about how she missed ... Continue Reading
Korey Bromery Attempts to Qualify for the U.S. Army National Best Warrior Competition and CrossFit Semifinals in the Same Week
For most Quarterfinals athletes, next week revolves around four singular tests of fitness. For Korey Bromery, however, the Quarterfinal events will be the easiest part of his week. That’s because the ... Continue Reading
New York’s “Pack Paws” Promotes Fitness for Athletes of All Ages
At the playground last summer, 6-year-old Charlotte could barely transition from one monkey bar to the next without dropping down and could never string more together than the first two. She also ... Continue Reading
From a Stroke in Utero to a Place on the CrossFit Games Podium: Amea Reyna’s Story
Amea Reyna came into the world already battling from behind — she just didn't know it. When Reyna’s mother was pregnant with her, Amea had a stroke. A perinatal stroke is quite rare, affecting between ... Continue Reading
Coming “Full Circle”: CrossFit Level 2 Seminar Headed to Garage Affiliate in South Africa
Chad Theron started CrossFit in 2007 “outside in the dirt” and soon began training clients out of his parent’s backyard garage in South Africa. That wasn’t uncommon in the pre-2010 days. Dave ... Continue Reading
A Quick Pivot: Hannah Black Talks Late Adjustment to “CrossFit Invictus Unconquerable” Roster
Hannah Black had her “breakout” performance during the 2023 North America West Semifinal, where she snatched 215 pounds, won the event, set the world record, and became one of the athletes to watch for ... Continue Reading
Interview: 2024 CrossFit Open Winner Mirjam von Rohr Sets Her Sights on Fort Worth
Mirjam von Rohr is the 2024 CrossFit Open women’s champion — seemingly out of nowhere. She is also one of the top-ranked women on the HYROX world leaderboard as of this article's publication, but ... Continue Reading
Alyssa Kobela: From Ineligible in 2023 to Adaptive Open Winner in 2024
Last season, Alyssa Kobela was devastated to learn she was ineligible to compete in CrossFit’s neuromuscular division. Though she has multiple sclerosis (MS) – a central nervous system condition without ... Continue Reading
Following a Stroke, Tim Taylor Found Resilience and Community at CrossFit Convergence
Tim Taylor was a regular at the 6:30 evening CrossFit class on Thursdays at CrossFit Convergence in Tallahassee, FL. It was like any other class for him on February 23, 2023 — he hit a metcon and ... Continue Reading
CrossFit Oslo Qualifies 109 Athletes to Quarterfinals — Why Are They So Successful?
Norway’s powerhouse affiliate CrossFit Oslo continued to prove just how fit its community is during the 2024 CrossFit Open by qualifying 109 athletes — 101 in the Individual division — to the ... Continue Reading
Fitness, Fraser, and Finals (at West Point): Get to Know CrossFit Newcomer Cale Layman
As we move from the Open to Quarterfinals, the CrossFit community is accustomed to seeing many of the usual names at the top of the leaderboard. But this year, after what some may say is an Open with a ... Continue Reading
Festivus Games to Host First Adaptive-Only Competition in April
The Festivus Games, originally launched in 2011, targets novice and intermediate Cro ssFit athletes who want to compete. As of April 2024, adaptive athletes are being added to that list, ... Continue Reading
New Documentary, “Danielle Brandon Energy,” Highlights Softer Side of the Fierce CrossFit Games Veteran
She walks in, clad not in chalked-up leggings and a sports bra but in jeans and makeup with her hair down. She sits, looks at the camera, and takes a breath. “Ready,” she says. Competing ... Continue Reading
“The Journey to 300,” Part 5: A New Beginning, Again
Editor’s Note: This is the fifth part in a multiple-part series written by Athena Perez, chronicling the year-long challenge that she originally dubbed her “Hiller Challenge.” Throughout the early ... Continue Reading
“We Just Do CrossFit”: The Secret to CrossFit Nashville’s Longevity
To be a successful gym owner today, we’re led to believe we need complex marketing plans, online advertising, and fancy software solutions with automated lead nurturing. We need to go through ... Continue Reading