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CrossFit HQ Concludes AGOQ Video Review

CrossFit Headquarters has finished its video review of the Age Group Online Qualifier as promised, after pushing back the original deadline due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Morning Chalk Up was able to ... Continue Reading

Asia CrossFit Championship Announces 2020 Cancellation, Tally Reaches Seven

The Asia CrossFit Championship sent an email to registered athletes on Monday, officially canceling its Sanctioned event for the 2019-2020 season. It was originally scheduled to take place in Shanghai, ... Continue Reading

Meet Two Lockdown-Inspired CrossFit Converts

Misty Wilkins Bohanon was never interested in CrossFit. The 44-year-old endurance athlete was more interested in mountain biking and training for marathons. “I (didn’t) have/make the time for lifting ... Continue Reading

CrossFit Owners Petition Governments Worldwide

  April 27 POWERED BY Good morning and welcome to the Morning Chalk Up. CrossFit gym owners in the United States and around the world are petitioning local, state, and provincial ... Continue Reading

CrossFit Owners Petition Governments Worldwide

Since we discussed fitness business owners in Ohio efforts to reopen amid COVID-19, the Morning Chalk Up has been inundated with similar plights of CrossFit affiliate owners worldwide. The Morning ... Continue Reading

Google Search Interest for CrossFit at Home Explodes

As nearly 90% of affiliates are closed worldwide, athletes across the planet have suddenly found themselves searching for ways to stay fit from home. According to keyword research provided by Scott ... Continue Reading

Asbury Park Summer Games Postpones to 2021, Entire Sanctionals Season Disrupted by COVID-19

In a move that was not entirely surprising, but significant nonetheless, the Asbury Park Summer Games announced on Instagram Friday that it would postpone the event until 2021; the date is yet to be ... Continue Reading

CrossFit Athlete Survives Six Days on a Ventilator

Darryl Chajon laid on his hospital bed unable to breathe. Six doctors and nurses surrounded him, sprinting frantically as they pushed him down the hall toward the ICU. One of them was on the phone to ... Continue Reading

Morning Chalk Up Enables In-Story Commenting

At its most basic level, conversations are the driving force behind this community and the stories we create. After four years of original reporting, our social media channels have been flooded with ... Continue Reading

How CrossFit Prepares Elite Teen Athletes for College

Not every elite CrossFit teen athlete you see at the top of the Open leaderboard is going to be the next Rich Froning. However, as National College Decision Day rolls around again in the United States and ... Continue Reading

Captain Tom Moore: 100 Years And 33 Million Dollars

This past Thursday, April 16, Captain Tom Moore stepped outside for a stroll along his back garden, a seemingly innocent 25m walk he’d made countless times before. On this day though, it was apparent that ... Continue Reading

Mid-Atlantic, German Sanctionals Cancel Totaling Six

Following quickly on the heels of indefinite postponements by the CrossFit Lowlands Throwdown and the Atlas Games earlier this week, both the Mid-Atlantic CrossFit Challange (MACC) and the German Throwdown ... Continue Reading

Rogue Invitational Seeks Athlete Input in Advance of Online Competition

Rogue Invitational event organizers sent out an email to their confirmed and invited individual athletes on Wednesday afternoon. The email asked the athletes to fill out a survey as they continue to ... Continue Reading

Atlas Games Postpones Indefinitely, Highlights Sanctionals Predicament

Another Sanctional is taking a potential pass on the 2020 season, as the Atlas Games provided an update today that indicated that they’ll be looking towards the 2021 season as the next time when they could ... Continue Reading

CrossFit HQ Extends Video Review Process for AGOQ

CrossFit Headquarters announced in a Facebook post and in a release on their website that they would extend the review process for the Age Group Online Qualifier to April 29. The original ... Continue Reading

Spartan Race To Support Gyms Worldwide

“All I remember was I couldn’t breathe, swam in 40-degree water, didn’t fail a single obstacle, met some cool folks. And now I have the worst Fran cough of my life.” If that comment from Jacob Heppner ... Continue Reading

A Pergunta Que Todos Estão Se Fazendo: O Que Vai Acontecer Com O Crossfit Games 2020?

Editor's Note: This story was translated to Portuguese by Axel Gouveia from the original English version, which you can read here. Depois de um mês tumultuado de adiamentos e ajustes na temporada, as ... Continue Reading

Glassman Hosting Zoom Discussion Groups with Affiliate Owners

CrossFit founder Greg Glassman hosted another Zoom video chat with a select group of US affiliate owners for a Zoom video chat on the current state of affairs on April 10. CrossFit’s founder has been ... Continue Reading

AGOQ Video Review Deadline Looms for CrossFit HQ

Today is CrossFit HQ's self-imposed deadline to complete the video review process for the Age Group Online Qualifier. One hundred and sixty athletes spread across eight age group divisions wait to learn ... Continue Reading

How Fitness Helped Erik Brinkman Survive a Four-Story Fall

The Accident It was 3 a.m. on February 11, 2019, the first day of Erik Brinkman’s honeymoon in Playa Del Carmen, Mexico. His wife was sleeping soundly after a great day together when Brinkman went ... Continue Reading

Customers Waiting Weeks or Months For At Home Gym Equipment

The COVID-19 lockdown has prompted an industry-wide demand on home gym equipment, with some suppliers receiving 30 times the amount of orders compared to a month ago. Many affiliates chose to rent out ... Continue Reading

Born Primitive Raised $186K in First Wave of Gym Stimulus Program

Just 10 days after Born Primitive joined the O2 Natural Recovery-led “Back the Gyms Stimulus” campaign to donate 50% of profits from online sales directly to CrossFit affiliates, Bear Handlon, the owner of ... Continue Reading

Seven Minutes of Burpees Revisited

The inaugural United in Movement fundraiser is past its halfway point, with four of the seven workouts having been announced. The charity competition benefitting the Red Cross, Action Against Hunger, and ... Continue Reading

5 Fitness Inspired Videos to Watch While You’re Stuck at Home

We get it. You're stuck at home crushing repeats on Netflix while trying to convince yourself to drop down for your 5th day straight of burpees, couch squats and (insert other bodyweight movement of ... Continue Reading

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