Four months ago, when CrossFit LLC let go of approximately 20 percent of their workforce, Karen Thomson was among the casualties. As a single mother of two kids, Thomson wasted no time feeling sorry ... Continue Reading
The 2023 Rogue Invitational Qualifier Workouts Revealed
The 2023 Rogue Invitational is scheduled at the Dell Diamond stadium in Austin, TX, for Oct. 27-29, 2023. At the time of this article's publication, the prize pool for that competition is $1,533,263 and ... Continue Reading
Ricky Garard Already Eyeing 2024 Games Season, Continues His Fight After Facing Multiple Setbacks
A four-year ban, a comeback year with a podium finish at the Games, and a major shoulder injury mark some of Ricky Garard’s most notable moments thus far in his CrossFit career. His latest, taking him out ... Continue Reading
Zack Telander Teaches Squat and Overhead Snatch Technique With CrossFitter Guilherme Malheiros
Zack Telander is one of the most popular Olympic weightlifting content creators on YouTube, with 216,000 subscribers as of Aug. 21, 2023. Three-time CrossFit Games athlete Guilherme Malheiros (2019-22) is ... Continue Reading
Reebok Launches Newest Nano X3 Froning Cross Trainers On August 18, 2023
The latest edition of the Reebok Nano X3 training shoe franchise launched on Aug. 18, 2023. The Reebok Nano X3 Froning, a collaboration with four-time Fittest Man on Earth® Rich Froning, features a bootie ... Continue Reading
Being a Judge at the 2023 NOBULL CrossFit Games Was On Her Bucket List, Then the Community Found Out
If you saw judge Krystal-Kate Meacham during the 2023 NOBULL CrossFit Games, you wouldn’t know she was battling stage 4 pancreatic cancer. The opportunity to be a judge at the Games was on ... Continue Reading
Strongman Mitchell Hooper Shows CrossFitter Justin Medeiros How to Log Press
2023 World’s Strongest Man Mitchell Hooper has been helping CrossFit athletes prepare for multiple competitions, including how Emma Cary can improve her strict lifts before the 2023 CrossFit ... Continue Reading
What Comprises Rich Froning’s Diet of 5,147 Calories Per Day?
Rich Froning, Jr. is arguably the greatest CrossFit athlete of all time. He was the Fittest Man on Earth® four consecutive times from 2011-2014. He racked up six additional Team division CrossFit ... Continue Reading
Justin Medeiros Reflects on His 2023 CrossFit Games Performance
Justin Medeiros’ rise to CrossFit stardom was lightning-quick. He won the Rookie of the Year title at the 2020 CrossFit Games, along with a bronze medal. Following the retirement of five-time Fittest Man ... Continue Reading
A Look Back: What Did We Learn From the 2023 NOBULL CrossFit Games Men’s Division
Now that we have had some time to digest the fitness we witnessed at the 2023 CrossFit Games, we can start to analyze it in greater detail. Here are some storylines and takeaways from the Men’s ... Continue Reading
One Year In: Don Faul Talks Challenges, Wins, Big Picture Plan as CrossFit CEO
A little over a year ago, on the eve of the CrossFit Games, CrossFit LLC announced they had a new CEO: US Marine veteran Don Faul. Remind me: Faul, a combat veteran and former platoon commander who ... Continue Reading
Alex Gazan: An Underdog(s) Story
In 2022, a young Alex Gazan competed at the CrossFit Games as a rookie, finishing in 24th place. As the field was cut to the top 30 athletes for the final day of competition, Gazan edged close to that ... Continue Reading
One Year In: CrossFit CEO Don Faul Says Helping Affiliates a Priority; Many “Underprice” and “Could be Doing a Lot Better Financially”
One year into his reign as the CEO of CrossFit LLC, Don Faul said one of his top priorities in the upcoming months is to help affiliates run more successful small businesses. In an exclusive interview ... Continue Reading
How a Life Changing Brain Surgery Led John Prescott to Double Down on Working with Adaptive Athletes
Gym owner John Prescott has always been passionate about coaching adaptive athletes. This passion led him to connect with leaders in adaptive athletics like Kevin Ogar and help found WheelWOD, a company ... Continue Reading
I Tried Wild Health’s Precision Medicine Service – Here Are My Thoughts
“Elevate Your Athleticism.” If you watched the 2023 NOBULL CrossFit Games this weekend, you most likely saw that phrase in an ad for Wild Health, a genetics-based Precision Medicine program run by a ... Continue Reading
Mitchell Hooper Suggests Emma Cary Train Neural Control To Improve Her Heavy Strict Lifts
2023 World’s Strongest Man Mitchell Hooper trained with CrossFit sensation Emma Cary before the 2023 CrossFit Games. Cary placed eighth overall in Madison, WI, an eight-rank jump from her 16th-place finish ... Continue Reading
Comeback Season — Tia-Clair Toomey’s Full Training Day
Six-time Fittest Woman on Earth® Tia-Clair Toomey skipped the 2023 CrossFit Games due to having her first child — she gave birth to a baby girl in May 2023. Toomey has since ramped up her training to get ... Continue Reading
Fergus Crawley’s 5 Tips For Running a Faster 5K
Hybrid athletes combine strength and endurance training to push the limits of their fitness capabilities. Fergus Crawley is at the forefront of the hybrid training movement and is known for combining heavy ... Continue Reading
2023 CrossFit Games Day Six Results
The 2023 CrossFit Games is a wrap. The Age Group and Adaptive divisions concluded on Aug. 3, leaving three days to determine who the Fittest on Earth® would be in the Team and Individual Men's and Women's ... Continue Reading
2023 CrossFit Games Event 12 “Echo Thruster Final” Results
The final event of Individual competition at the 2023 CrossFit Games in Madison, WI, featured Echo bikes, thrusters, and walking lunges. Jeffrey Adler had an effective lock on the title of Fittest Man on ... Continue Reading
Laura Horvath Wins the 2023 CrossFit Games
The 2023 CrossFit Games in Madison, WI, have ended. For the first time in seven years, a woman other than Tia-Clair Toomey sits on the throne as CrossFit Games champion. Laura Horvath is the Fittest ... Continue Reading
2023 CrossFit Games Results and Leaderboard
Editor's Note: The 2024 CrossFit Games will take place from August 8-11. Follow BarBend's 2024 Games leaderboard to stay on top of the action. The 2023 NOBULL CrossFit Games have wrapped. Laura ... Continue Reading
2023 CrossFit Games Teams Division Results — CrossFit Invictus On Top
CrossFit Invictus is the Fittest Team on Earth® in 2023. After a stunning performance at the 2023 NOBULL CrossFit Games in Madison, WI, Invictus came out on top at the end of four grueling days of ... Continue Reading
Roman Khrennikov Reportedly Breaks Foot on Final Day of 2023 CrossFit Games, Competes on One Leg
With two events left in the Individual competition at the 2023 CrossFit Games in Madison, WI, Roman Khrennikov, in his sophomore year at the Games, was in second place overall on the leaderboard behind ... Continue Reading