In case you missed it, the CrossFit Games recently updated the 2022 Competition Rulebook to include the payout schedule for Semifinals. The list can be found in rule 4.14. One big thing: The payouts ... Continue Reading
CrossFit Relaunches Specialty Courses with Aerobic Capacity, Weightlifting and Gymnastics
CrossFit LLC announced the relaunch of its specialty course program Monday, three years after it was discontinued in favor of a deregulated “preferred course” system. The first courses to be ... Continue Reading
Incorrect Shuttle Run Scores Throw Finalized Quarterfinals Leaderboard into Disarray
The CrossFit community and a number of athletes have raised concerns about the shuttle run scoring in workout 3 of the 2022 NOBULL CrossFit Games Quarterfinals. The subsequent impact on the leaderboard for ... Continue Reading
All 5 2022 Quarterfinal Workouts Leaked on CrossFit’s YouTube Channel
The 2022 CrossFit Quarterfinals kick off on March 24, 2022, and last until April 24, 2022. The second stage of the 2022 CrossFit season features the top 10 percent of athletes worldwide from the Open ... Continue Reading
CrossFit Releases Floor Plans for 5 Quarterfinal Workouts
On March 22, CrossFit HQ released five individual floor plans for the online Quarterfinals, which will last from March 24 through April 24, 2022. The second stage of the 2022 CrossFit season challenges the ... Continue Reading
Quarterfinals Floor Plans Create Logistical Challenges for Dukic Brothers
With the announcement of the floor plans for Quarterfinals some athletes are scrambling to find a place, or places, where they’ll be able to do the workouts. While many might think there’s nothing ... Continue Reading
Five Key Takeaways from CrossFit’s First 2022 Affiliate Town Hall
CrossFit must evolve coming out of the pandemic and through its leadership change, said Nicole Carroll, CrossFit’s director of training and certification, or it risks making the same mistakes it made in ... Continue Reading
Breaking: CrossFit Expands Payouts to All 40 Individual Games Athletes, Reveals Full Details
CrossFit revealed the complete 2022 CrossFit Games prize purse details today, announcing the largest prize purse in CrossFit Games history, including expanding payouts further down the leaderboard for ... Continue Reading
Six Months After Tommy John Surgery, Brooke Wells Finished Fifth Worldwide in the 2022 CrossFit Open
During the one-rep-max snatch event (Event 12) at the 2021 CrossFit Games on Aug. 12, 2021, Brooke Wells suffered a severe elbow injury that caused her to withdraw from the competition and required Tommy ... Continue Reading
Mal O’Brien, Saxon Panchik Top the 2022 CrossFit Open Leaderboard
After the three-week-long 2022 CrossFit Open, the creme has risen to the top of the leaderboard. 2021 CrossFit Rookie of the Year Mal O'Brien, who finished seventh overall at the 2021 CrossFit Games, is ... Continue Reading
China’s “Zero COVID” Strategy Continues to Stifle CrossFit in Country
As the Western world continues to move on from COVID-19, dropping mandates and beginning to treat the virus as endemic, China finds itself in a precarious situation. The country’s “zero COVID” policy, in ... Continue Reading
Has the CrossFit Open Entered a New Era?
The 2022 Open has now come and gone, and with it many changes to what we are typically used to in terms of Open programming. This shouldn’t be entirely surprising as we are still in only the second year of ... Continue Reading
22.3 Livestream Numbers See Viewership Bump Despite Workout Leak
With the final week of the Open on tap, the CrossFit live announcement ran into a potential hiccup as the 22.3 workout was leaked to the community before the livestream began. Despite the leak, ... Continue Reading
CORRECTION: E. coli in Lake Monona at CrossFit Games Article
CORRECTION: An article published on January 18, 2022, about the CrossFit Games at Lake Monona, Wisconsin, which has since been taken down, did not report information about when Madison ... Continue Reading
2022 CrossFit Open — Workout 22.3 Revealed
The final workout of the 2022 CrossFit Open season has arrived. Workout 22.3 was the only workout in the Open that involved a live announcement from two locations simultaneously — Hendersonville, TN, and ... Continue Reading
2022 “The Bear Hug” Rogue Challenge Results
On March 9, 2022, Rogue Fitness released the results of their second "The Bear Hug" Challenge, which tasked athletes to hold a sandbag for as long as possible. After all was said and done, Zachary Kunda ... Continue Reading
CrossFit Reykjavik Debuts Team for 22.3 Open Announcement
The 2022 NOBULL CrossFit Games are heading into the final week and the 22.3 live announcement will feature two affiliate teams–a new super team in CrossFit Reykjavik and the best of the best from CrossFit ... Continue Reading
CrossFit Announces “Levels”, Grading System Based on 2022 Open Performance
If you’ve ever played in a golf league or have been on a bowling team (shout out to my college roommate team “Split Happens”), you understand establishing a handicap to ensure fair competition. On ... Continue Reading
Meet the Coach Helping Addicts in Recovery and People Learning to Walk Again
Chris King saw a hole in the traditional Alcoholics Anonymous model. “I would go to noon AA meetings and you would just see all these people that have spiritual health, but there was no physical health ... Continue Reading
22.2 Livestream Numbers Remain Strong, But No Real Improvement
We now have a clear picture of the overall registration for the 2022 Open at almost 300,000 athletes and this is the second week that CrossFit has made an effort to include more of the global CrossFit ... Continue Reading
2022 CrossFit Open — Workout 22.2 Revealed
Workout 22.2 for the 2022 CrossFit Open was announced on Thursday, March 3, 2022, at 3:00 p.m. EST by the five-time Fittest Man on Earth® Mat Fraser in the live announcement broadcast on the CrossFit Games ... Continue Reading
CrossFit on Ukraine: “We Will Not Recognize the Governments of Russia or Belarus Throughout the Season”
On Feb. 24, 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin authorized the invasion of Ukraine. Since then, at least 102 Ukrainian civilians have been killed with more than 300 more injured as of Feb. 28, 2022, ... Continue Reading
22.1 Versus 2021 When it Comes to the Elite Women
Each year, the road to CrossFit Games qualification is a long one, one that puts athletes through at least 15 unique, varied tests before determining who deserves to compete on the biggest stage. Last ... Continue Reading
Authentic Brands Group Finalizes the Acquisition of Reebok for $2.46 Billion
On March 1, 2022, American brand management company Authentic Brands Group (ABG) announced it completed its acquisition of fitness footwear and clothing manufacturer Reebok from German sportswear ... Continue Reading