This week has been absolutely huge with news impacting the 2018 Reebok CrossFit Games, and we'll catch you up to speed on everything below. The latest news comes from European Regionals first place ... Continue Reading
Emily Abbott Responds to 4-Year Ban for Breach of CrossFit Games Drug Policy
Yesterday, CrossFit HQ released a list of athletes who were in breach of their drug policy following the 2018 CrossFit Regionals competition. This list originally included 13 names (but has increased to 14 ... Continue Reading
How Much Money Is On the Line At the 2018 Reebok CrossFit Games?
We're about three weeks out from the start of the 2018 Reebok CrossFit games, and the hype behind top athletes continues. Roughly a week ago, we wrote an article covering the decision to continue keeping ... Continue Reading
Learn What Drives CrossFit Games Champion Tia Toomey in this Short New Documentary
"I wanna get fit to be a better version of myself. And if i can be a better version of myself, I feel unstoppable and feel like I can go out and achieve whatever I want to achieve." With the 2018 Reebok ... Continue Reading
Krzysztof Wierzbicki Deadlifts His IPF World Record for An Easy Triple
Nothing to see here, just a man pulling his world record three darn times in a row. (OK, with wrist straps on a deadlift bar.) It was at the European Classic Powerlifting Championship in March 2017 that ... Continue Reading
Watch Part Two of the Brent Fikowski Documentary
If you’ve been a fan of CrossFit for a while, you’ve probably watched your fair share of documentaries. CrossFit HQ takes media and marketing very, very seriously, to the point that their annual ... Continue Reading
Weightlifter Mattie Rogers Is Heading for the -76kg Class
The biggest news to come out of the world Olympic weightlifting in a long time is the new weight classes. Earlier this week the International Weightlifting Federation announced the formation of ten new IWF ... Continue Reading
Powerlifter Jaisyn Mike Unofficially Breaks Two of His IPF World Records
Powerlifter Jaisyn Mike calls himself “Mr. Athletic Over Everything” and competes in the M1 division with athletes aged between 40 and 50 years old. That doesn’t stop him from having some of the most ... Continue Reading
-85kg Weightlifter Toshiki Yamamoto Squats 200kg for 20 Reps During an Insane “Leg Week”
Japanese weightlifter Toshiki Yamamoto has had a hell of a leg week. We do say “week,” because three times in the last six days the -85kg athlete has managed phenomenal feats of strength, specifically with ... Continue Reading
Fantasy CrossFit Is Back for 2018
In year two of CrossFit Pick ‘Em, the prize has doubled: two million dollars is up for grabs for the athlete/fan who can correctly guess the top ten men, top ten woman, and top five teams at the 2018 ... Continue Reading
Road to the Games: Watch the Hour-Long 2018 CrossFit Regionals Documentary
As the Reebok CrossFit Games approach, CrossFit’s media machine is in overdrive and HQ is churning out fantastic, high quality videos with regularity. Along with the CrossFit Games Update Studio, the new ... Continue Reading
Is Weightlifter Kianoush Rostami Moving to the -94kg Class?
World record holding Olympic weightlifter Kianoush Rostami may be moving up a weight class. Iran_Weightlifting, a popular Instagram dedicated to covering the nation’s exploits in the sport, published a ... Continue Reading
Reebok CrossFit Games Set to Stay in Madison Through 2021
Earlier today at a Reebok CrossFit Games press conference, Dave Castro, Justin Bergh, and others from CrossFit HQ dropped news in respects to what fans and athletes can expect for the location of Reebok ... Continue Reading
Kimberly Walford Handily Wins USPA Drug Tested Nationals
Multiple IPF world record holder Kimberly Walford handily won the USPA Drug Tested Nationals that were held in Charleston, West Virginia this week, and while she didn’t set any more IPF world records, she ... Continue Reading
Powerlifter Tom Martin Bounces Back from Injuries to Take 3rd Best Total Ever
British powerlifter Tom Martin has been consistently wowing us with this ability to bounce back from injury. Despite having suffered a gruesome torn bicep last July and tearing his pec in May, the guy just ... Continue Reading
Watch Clarence Kennedy’s Huge 190kg Squat Jerk
These days, very strong Irish weightlifter and popular YouTube personality Clarence Kennedy only posts a few times a month on Instagram but when he does produce content, it’s almost always worth a look. ... Continue Reading
Weightlifter Sohrab Moradi (-94kg, Iran) Unofficially Breaks Snatch, Clean & Jerk, and Total Records
Iranian weightlifter and Olympic Champion Sohrab Moradi has just unofficially broken the world records in the snatch, clean & jerk, and total in Iran. The first video he posted to his Instagram ... Continue Reading
3 More CrossFit Regionals Athletes Test Positive for Doping
Three more CrossFit athletes have tested positive for banned substances and have been disqualified from the 2018 Reebok CrossFit Games season. CrossFit HQ announced the decision on their website, naming ... Continue Reading
Watch the First Episode of the Brent Fikowski Documentary
"There are about six days of the year that are pretty exciting — the Regionals and the Games — other than that, it's pretty low key." That's Brent Fikowski describing his life and that sentence pretty ... Continue Reading
Laura Hosier Tests Positive, CrossFit East Woodbridge Disqualified from Games
A pre-workout ingredient banned in CrossFit competition has cost Laura Hosier and her box their shot at the 2018 CrossFit Games. In a post uploaded to her Instagram, Hosier put up a picture of the ... Continue Reading
CrossFit HQ Announces Disqualification of Fifth Place Meridian Team
Last week, CrossFit HQ announced that the fifth place team in the CrossFit Meridian Regional could face disqualification due to a violation of team eligibility. This news broke on Instagram when CrossFit ... Continue Reading
Olympic Weightlifting Champion Chuck Vinci Dead At 85
Olympic weightlifting champion Charles Vinci has died at age 85. No official cause of death has been announced. “Chuck” Vinci is to this day the most recent American male to win an Olympic gold medal in ... Continue Reading
Throwback: Thor Bjornsson Squats 200kg for 29 Grueling Reps
Hafthor Bjornsson has had a hell of a year, what with becoming the first person to win Europe’s Strongest Man, the Arnold Strongman Classic, and World’s Strongest Man in the same year. (The same ... Continue Reading
Joseph Peña Shatters Junior World Record Squat With 425.5 Kilograms
It’s the squat that had countless powerlifters telling their buddies, “I told you this kid was the real deal.” Joseph Peña is the real deal. There have been a lot of historic lifts made at this year’s ... Continue Reading