The story. Place of Hope is just that. A children’s organization providing family-style foster care, housing and support services for homeless families, and foster care for the hundreds of children in ... Continue Reading
10 WODs To Do On The Beach This Summer
Lounging and chugging may enough activity for most beach-goers. But some (read: most) CrossFitters can't quit the sweat for even 1 day. Why? We'll blame the endorphins. Doesn't matter though, these 10 ... Continue Reading
15 Hero WODs You’ve Probably Never Done
Murph. You love it. You love to hate it. You hate that you love it. Regardless, it's probably given you a bit little bit of Hero WOD flu. You know, the bug every CrossFitter catches twice or thrice a ... Continue Reading
Rio Makes No Excuses: How the Rio CrossFit Community Came Together to Solve a Crisis
As Heat 1 of Event 3 kicked off, something was noticeably different about the event. Instead of ring muscle-ups, athletes performed bar muscle-ups on a rig that was donated by CrossFit Crown last ... Continue Reading
Local Affiliates Save Latin America Regional
So what's happening in Brazil? Apparently Brazilian truck drivers have had it with the rising price of fuel and decided to go on strike Thursday, barricading roadways and making it literally impossible to ... Continue Reading
76, Prostate Cancer, Radiation, and a Hero WOD a Day
Say what? When Marc Tony Joyce came up with the idea to do Hero wods every day through May to raise funds for charity, he thought he’d do them alone at M Squared Fitness in Manchester, United Kingdom. An ... Continue Reading
Regionals Week 1, Day 3 Recap
Three days, 6 events, 240 athletes, and 90 teams; the Europe, East and South Regionals are over. Here are a few highlights from the final day of competition. The First to Two. Salt Lake City CrossFit ... Continue Reading
7 Regionals, 3 Kids and Still One of the Fittest
“This is my life,” said Sheena Hammer, while holding her youngest of three kids in the lobby of the Salt Palace Convention Center. Just a half hour earlier, she’d set the time to beat on Event 3, a ... Continue Reading
Regionals Week 1, Day 2 Recap
7 things you want to know from Day 2. The last athlete gets the loudest cheers. During Event 4, Heat 2 at the Europe Regional, Sara Massoni struggled through the heavy snatches. She didn't actually get ... Continue Reading
Regionals Week 1, Day 1 Recap
Five things you want to know. 1. Got handstand walks? A total of 77 teams were unable to complete Event 1. Only 13 teams, or 14% of the field fiished under the time cap. At least one athlete was stuck ... Continue Reading
Age Group Online Qualifier Analysis Events 3 and 4
Remind me. On Monday, April 23, the Age Group Online Qualifier (AGOQ) official wrapped up. For those who weren’t paying attention, the AGOQ is the second stage of competition inviting theta 200 athletes in ... Continue Reading
Hidden Camera Found in Female Bathroom at Switch CrossFit
The story. On April 12, a woman noticed something in the ceiling of the changing room at Switch CrossFit in Clinton Township, MI. That ‘something’ happened to be a hidden camera used to spy on female ... Continue Reading
Age Group Online Qualifier Analysis Events 1 and 2
What happened? In case you missed it, on Monday, Masters and teen athletes wrapped up the second stage of competition known as the Age Group Online Qualifier. For more info on the history of that, you can ... Continue Reading
2018 CrossFit Regionals Events, What We Know So Far
The story. Whether you're a first-time athlete or a multi-year veteran, by now you know that Dave Castro likes the slow roll, teasing events and movements out for your mental enjoyment (or suffering!). ... Continue Reading
How to Use Video Games to Get your Kids to Exercise
The story. It’s no surprise that a lot of kids these days aren’t getting enough activity in. Between iPhones, iPods, tablets, social media, and video games, kids are just spending a lot more time doing ... Continue Reading
Athletes Sitting Out 2018 CrossFit Games Season
Every year, athletes decide to take a season off or become sidelined due to an injury. We could list a whole ton of former CrossFit Games athletes who are taking 2018 off, but we're going to narrow the ... Continue Reading
How One Organization is Using CrossFit to Fight Pancreatic Cancer
The story. Project Purple is a Connecticut-based 501(c)(3) non-profit organization with a serious goal: to find a cure for pancreatic cancer and improve the lives of diagnosed patients. The foundation was ... Continue Reading
The Two Top Male Scores for CrossFit Open Workout 18.1 Have Been Invalidated
The first event for the 2018 CrossFit Open seemed like a simple workout: 8 Toes-to-Bar 10 Dumbbell Hang Clean & Jerks (5 each arm; men use 50 pounds, women use 35 pounds) 14/12 Calories ... Continue Reading
Open Perspective: Celebrate Your Fitness
The Sport of Fitness begins its official season with the CrossFit Open in just a few short days. For Games athletes, this means one thing…It’s time to throw down and show off the training you’ve been ... Continue Reading
Introducing NAPWOD, the Workout of Your Dreams
No, literally. Among today’s newest and most ridiculous fitness fads, we’ve got something you can file right alongside naked CrossFit and beer yoga. Introducing “Napercise”. That's right. A nap ... Continue Reading
Gas Station CrossFit
The problem. By 2030, there are expected to be more than 71 million autonomous vehicleson the road. So what’s going to happen to the tens of thousands of service stations around the country once gasoline ... Continue Reading
Brooke Ence’s $20,000 Donation to Fight Human Trafficking
The story. Last week, you read this story about how six NOBULL athletes got to use their bodies, and a few pieces of equipment, as paintbrushes, to create six one-of-a-kind pieces of art. They turned each ... Continue Reading
Dave Castro Keeps Posting Books, But Are They CrossFit Open Clues?
Thanks to Dave Castro and his continual pursuit of throwing athletes off, the CrossFit community has now become accustomed to nothing being straight forward. Whether it's the CrossFit Open, Regionals, or ... Continue Reading
A Vacation Only for the Fittest
Did you say vacation? Sure did, and if you've got the post-holiday/New Year blues this will cheer you right up. Meet VoyEdge Rx (see what they did there), a travel experience company dishing up some ... Continue Reading