Hybrid athlete Fergus Crawley is known for his strength and endurance quests. He's run a sub-five-minute mile after squatting 500 pounds and completed a sub-12-hour Ironman after logging a 1,200-pound ... Continue Reading
“I’m So Excited” — Inside the 2024 Adaptive CrossFit Season With WheelWOD’s Kevin Ogar
Kevin Ogar has been busy. After the Oct. 2023 announcement that CrossFit Adaptive divisions will no longer compete at the CrossFit Games, the owner of CrossFit WatchTower and the co-owner of WheelWOD is ... Continue Reading
CrossFit For Health Summit Heads to Austin on February 3, Tickets Available Now
The first CrossFit For Health Summit, presented by GORUCK, is set to be held on February 3 at the Hotel Van Zandt in Austin, TX, and will bring together experts for an educational day of knowledge ... Continue Reading
Jelle Hoste’s Workout of the Week
Today’s workout is programmed by 2023 CrossFit Games rookie, Belgium’s Jelle Hoste. Hoste burst onto the elite CrossFit scene in 2023, placing 4th in the Europe Semifinal and then finishing 10th overall in ... Continue Reading
Pat Vellner Teams Up with Developers to Create New Fitness App Called “Ardor”
We’re a community of goal-setters. We train every day to get better, stronger, healthier, and fitter. We prepare for the Open or local comps each year to test our abilities against ... Continue Reading
San Diego Rainstorm Floods and Destroys CrossFit ATR
On Monday, January 22, Adam Gelfand was a the gym during routine 9:30 AM class that is always filled with mothers who often bring their young children. Thirty minutes later, the scene was anything but ... Continue Reading
YouTuber Will Tennyson Learns the Clean & Jerk the Hard Way From CrossFit Games Champion Mat Fraser
"You're just gonna leave me to it?" Will Tennyson says, his voice quivering gently, as he approaches an unloaded barbell. Scoffing a bit, five-time Fittest Man on Earth® Mat Fraser offers encouragement, ... Continue Reading
“Pancakes for Roger, Inc.” Launches First Competition in NYC, Kansas City
A seemingly simple request for pancakes has turned into a not-for-profit organization and is now a competition in February with two locations. Susan Combs launched “Pancakes for Roger, Inc.” in honor of ... Continue Reading
The Open Report: Week 1
Days until the 2024 CrossFit Open: 35 (Register for the Open now) The Open is a barometer for your fitness. It tests you and can forecast the year to come. Has the extra accessory work ... Continue Reading
Annie Thorisdottir and Katrin Davíðsdóttir’s 6 Tips For Sticking to Your Goals
Each January, gyms all over the globe experience a surge in memberships as people commit to New Year's resolutions centered around fitness. According to PLoS, approximately a third of all resolutions are ... Continue Reading
How Patrick and Kristi O’Connell Program Training for Their 2024 HYROX Debuts in Houston
CrossFit turned hybrid athletes Patrick O’Connell and Kristi O’Connell will make their HYROX debuts at the 2024 HYROX Houston contest on March 16, 2024, in Texas. They’re tailoring their workouts ... Continue Reading
Adapting the 2024 TYR Wodapalooza Programming for Your Affiliate
The 2024 TYR Wodapalooza once again delivered a spectacular festival of fitness across four days in Miami. The elite individuals put on a show through rain and sun, and with over 40 divisions, plus ... Continue Reading
Does Australia’s Peter Ellis Have What It Takes to Make the CrossFit Games in 2024?
Peter Ellis is an up-and-coming Australian CrossFit athlete working his way up the leaderboard over the last two years. In December 2023, the 21-year-old dominated the Elite Men’s Division at the ... Continue Reading
How CrossFit Athlete Josh Bridges’ Training Has Changed at 40 Years Old
Former United States Navy SEAL and six-time CrossFit Games athlete Josh Bridges’ competitive career highlight is a second-place finish at the 2011 Games behind four-time Fittest Man on Earth® Rich ... Continue Reading
2024 HYROX Maastricht Results
The HYROX season in 2024 got underway with the first contest of the calendar year in Maastricht, Netherlands, on Jan. 20, 2024. The pro divisions, both Individual and Doubles, brought the heat with some ... Continue Reading
How to Adapt the 2024 TYR Wodapalooza Events for CrossFit Kids
It’s always fun to adapt the events from elite competitions for your own gym and attempt to tackle the workouts to test one’s fitness. Whether it’s a benchmark WOD or a repeat of an event from the past, ... Continue Reading
“My Hiller Challenge”: Part 1, Endings and Beginnings
Editor’s Note: This is the first in a multiple-part series written by Athena Perez, chronicling the year-long challenge that she’s dubbed her “Hiller Challenge.” Throughout the year, Andrew Hiller, a ... Continue Reading
What Colten Mertens Thinks Is Wrong With CrossFit Programming
CrossFit training comprises three modalities — weightlifting, gymnastics, and mono-structural movements. CrossFit competitions test athletes' fitness through programming that combines those ... Continue Reading
Top-10 Wodapalooza Finish Puts Estonia’s Andra Moistus on the Map
When Andra Moistus found CrossFit in Estonia in 2018, most people in her country had never heard of it before. Because Moistus had a pole-vaulting background, she was skilled at gymnastics and had ... Continue Reading
Linda Keesman Signs with Reebok Europe for Year Six
In 2016, Linda Keesman returned home to the Netherlands after studying abroad, feeling out of shape. She was inspired to join a local “strength and conditioning” gym in order to regain her fitness. Shortly ... Continue Reading
Brooke Wells’ Workout of the Week
Today’s workout is programmed by eight-time CrossFit Games veteran, Brooke Wells. Wells won the 2015 Central Regional and has competed at the elite level ever since. A few highlights include winning the ... Continue Reading
LatAm Cup at 2024 TYR WZA Crowns Its Inaugural Champions
The annual TYR Wodapalooza Fitness Festival in Miami, FL added a new division in 2024 called the LatAm Cup. Last Saturday it crowned the first-ever male and female champions from the Latin American ... Continue Reading
Should You Add Swimming to Your Training as an Everyday CrossFit Athlete? Chase Ingraham Weighs In
A plunge into a cold, chlorinated pool or open body of water isn’t everyone's idea of a good time. CrossFit athletes at the competitive level have seen swim events come up (outside of the Games) more and ... Continue Reading
Hybrid Athlete Fergus Crawley Does These 6 Things Every Day to Optimize Recovery
Fergus Crawley has been carrying the banner for "hybrid" mixed-modality training for years now. For those unaware, hybrid training has gained momentum recently for its well-rounded, diverse approach to ... Continue Reading