Event six was yet another workout in Dubai that challenged the elite athletes' work capacity with a fast clock. A combination of cleans, front squats, and shoulder-over-heads saw Fabian Beneito Selles ... Continue Reading
2022 Dubai Fitness Championship Event 5 Results — Claudia Gluck and Fabian Beneito Selles Open Day 2 Victorious
The third and final day of the 2022 Dubai Fitness Championship (DFC) started on Sunday afternoon inside the Coca-Cola Arena with a full slate of events. Four events were in tap, giving the athletes plenty ... Continue Reading
2022 Dubai Fitness Championship Results
The 2022 Dubai Fitness Championship (DFC) takes place Dec. 2-4, 2022, and features 40 elite athletes (20 men and 20 women) who qualified via an online qualifier. The three-day event will see history made ... Continue Reading
2022 Dubai Fitness Championship Event 4 Results — Lazar Đukić Bounces Back, Hanna Karlsson Triumphant
Day two of the 2022 Dubai Fitness Championship (DFC) came to a close on Saturday evening at the Coca-Cola Arena with the DFC organizers and HWPO’s take on a fast and furious elimination-style ... Continue Reading
2022 Dubai Fitness Championship Event 3 Results — Karin Freyova Victorious, Luka Đukić Joins the Winner’s Circle
The second event of Saturday’s full tilt of the 2022 Dubai Fitness Championship (DFC) action continued with races that came down to who could hold on to their barbell and deal with the most extended ... Continue Reading
2022 Dubai Fitness Championship Event 2 Results — Karin Freyova and Fabian Beneito Selles Stand Tall
Day two of the Dubai Fitness Championship (DFC) started with a test of strength as athletes were greeted with the “Hang Clean Ladder” on Saturday, Dec. 3, 2022. The athletes were treated with a total of ... Continue Reading
2022 Dubai Fitness Championship Event 1 Results — Alex Kotoulas and Jamie Simmonds Climb to Victory
The first event of the 10th edition of the Dubai Fitness Championship (DFC) is in the books — or, rather, the record books. Forty athletes met at the base of the world’s tallest human-made structure, the ... Continue Reading
The 2022 Dubai Fitness Championship Events
On December 1, 2022, athletes met at the Coca-Cola Arena in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, for the first briefing of the weekend's events at the Dubai Fitness Championship (DFC). The meeting included details ... Continue Reading
The 2022 Dubai Fitness Championship’s Opening Event Is a Stair Climb Up the World’s Tallest Building
The opening event for the 10th year of the Dubai Fitness Championship (DFC) is one for the record books. It's a timed trial up 160 flights of stairs inside the Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the ... Continue Reading
What Equipment Earns Its Keep In Tia-Clair Toomey’s Australian Home Gym?
Since winning her sixth consecutive CrossFit Games title in 2022, the reigning Fittest Woman on Earth® Tia-Clair Toomey has not competed in sanctioned CrossFit competition due to the requisite time needed ... Continue Reading
Doctor, Affiliate Owner and Make WODs Great Again Creator Go All In on CrossFit Box
You may know John Wooley by his more popular identity — the man behind the CrossFit meme account Make WODs Great Again, with 376k followers on Instagram. And while he’s planning to keep churning out funny, ... Continue Reading
Morning Chalk Up Announced as Official Media Partner for Dubai Fitness Championship
Earlier this month, Morning Chalk Up announced a series of Partner Events. With this structure, we’ll be bringing you more in-depth coverage across a broader range of competitions in the ... Continue Reading
Preacher Joe Klassen Finds the Church of CrossFit
When he first came to CrossFit Unconquered, Joe Klassen couldn’t walk across the gym without stopping for a break. The fear of being an outcast because of his weight–nearly 350 pounds–made the pastor weary ... Continue Reading
Justin Medeiros Teaches the Buttery Bros How to Log Lift
The two-time reigning Fittest Man on Earth® Justin Medeiros continued his streak of elite contest dominance when he won the 2022 Rogue Invitational in late October. He was the reigning champion entering ... Continue Reading
Meet Your New Coach: Big Data
Being motivated to workout is half the battle. The other half? Having a game plan for your training. While there’s an abundance of options available, generic programming doesn’t consider your individual ... Continue Reading
Sick of Running Nutrition Challenges? Try This Instead
January is coming It’s time to do something nutrition-related for your members. Sigh. Does this sound familiar? Cory Kessler, owner of COREFIT in Ohio, used to run a nutrition challenge ... Continue Reading
Running the Desert and Criss Cross Double-Unders on Day 1 in Egypt
7:30 AM came early for elite athletes who gathered at the Sports City New Capital outside of Cairo, Egypt. The 80 or so male and female athletes loaded on two separate busses to take the hour-long drive to ... Continue Reading
Hope in the Desert Looks to Bring Exercise Opportunities to Women in Palestine
While some events are created to crown the fittest, others are to create earning opportunities for athletes, and some for a bit of friendly competition — this throw down is for a cause that hits close to ... Continue Reading
Ricky Garard Withdraws From Dubai Fitness Championship, Swaps with Nikita Yundov
The third Fittest Man on Earth Ricky Garard has withdrawn from the upcoming Dubai Fitness Championship, the Morning Chalk Up confirmed with the event organizers. Garard recently competed at the 2022 Rogue ... Continue Reading
European Championships Update: Support a 2023 Event and You Might Get Paid for 2022
On October 31, the 2022 European Championship podium athletes received yet another email update from organizer Carl Saville offering a potential solution for their unpaid prize purse winnings from the ... Continue Reading
Rogue Reactions from the Athletes: “Shit happens. I will come back stronger.”
The 2022 Rogue Invitational is over and done, but there are a lot of lingering emotions from the highly competitive off-season event. Enter Instagram, where competing athletes shared their personal highs ... Continue Reading
Here’s How Much Money Was Won at the 2022 Rogue Invitational
The 2022 Rogue Invitational contest featured elite CrossFit competition and the second edition of its 10-athlete strongman contest. The former took place from Oct. 27-30, 2022, and the latter was nestled ... Continue Reading
2022 Rogue Invitational CrossFit Event 9 — The Goblet Results & Recap
The leaderboard again shifted after the second-to-last competition event at the 2022 Rogue Invitational on Sunday afternoon. Patrick Vellner put himself within five points of overall leader (and ... Continue Reading
2022 Rogue Invitational CrossFit Event 10 — Heavy Grace Results & Recap
The 2022 Rogue Invitational came to close on Sunday, Oct. 30, at Dell Diamond in Round Rock, TX, with two very different endings. The men’s division featured nail-biting drama that went down to the final ... Continue Reading