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
The Age Group Online Qualifier Kicks Off Today
What's happening? The Age Group Qualifier -- or AGOQ for short -- kicks off tonight at 5PM Pacific with a live announcement on Facebook. It's essentially the Regionals equivalent for Teens and Masters. ... Continue Reading
The 2018 CrossFit Open: Participation By The Numbers
The big numbers. Across all age divisions, 429,157 athletes completed at least one WOD; 245,046 athletes completed all six scored events (remember that 18.2a thingy?). Stop and think about that for a ... Continue Reading
Which Athlete Has Done the Most Live Announcements?
The CrossFit Open was first introduced in 2011, but CrossFit HQ didn't start broadcasting live announcements until 2013. Since then, these head-to-head UFC style matchups have featured some of CrossFit's ... 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
Dropping In Just Got Super Easy
What’s up? How do you find the right CrossFit class to drop into when you’re traveling? Google: “CrossFit Gyms in Atlanta”. Compile a list of gyms. Search for their schedules online. Try to find a class ... Continue Reading
There Are a Ton of Changes Coming to the 2018 CrossFit Games Regionals
Over on the official website of the Reebok CrossFit Games, a new article has been posted detailing several changes we can expect for the 2018 Reebok CrossFit Games Regional format. Firstly, there will ... Continue Reading
When You’re Born with a Genetic Anomaly
The Story. Meet Tommy. He was born with a very rare genetic anomaly (missing Chromosome #20), so rare that he was the not only the first kid identified with it but it doesn't even have a name yet. Tommy ... Continue Reading
CrossFit Games 2018 What You Need to Know
What happened? After the Invitational, Dave Castro announced some new changes coming to the CrossFit Games in 2018. Teams will be reduced from six athletes to four, which really stinks if you're Tasia ... Continue Reading
Dave Castro Announces New Regionals and Team Format for 2018 CrossFit Games
Leave it to Dave Castro to save the most exciting news for last. During the post-competition Cooldown Show at the 2017 Reebok CrossFit Invitational, the longtime Games Director outlined some big changes ... Continue Reading
I Didn’t Want to Try Because I Didn’t Want to Fail
I have been doing CrossFit at Synergy CrossFit in Suwanee, GA for a month now. I want to give you a clear picture of where I’ve been at in my life so you understand the last four weeks. I have been fat. ... Continue Reading
A Raid in Delhi
What Happened? Government officials "stormed" into Cross Fit Unisex Gym in Dehli, India, seizing banners, signs and any other advertising material with the word CrossFit on it. Why'd they do that? The ... Continue Reading
You Can’t Get Married This Weekend
WHY NOT? Meet Sarah Gillespie. She lives in Madison, WI and just wants a simple wedding with some family and friends in town. Not much to ask really. As many of you know the summer is beautiful in ... Continue Reading
Finding CrossFit at Fifty
Ten years ago, Megan McCann, now 50, lay in a hospital bed with nine fractures and multiple other injuries. A truck had hit her as she rode her scooter to work in Atlanta. She spent four weeks in the ... Continue Reading
Our Soldiers in Qatar Need a Hand
WHAT'S UP? Yesterday, one of our longtime readers, TSgt Randolph Welch, emailed us asking for a little help. He's based at Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar and noticed the state of disrepair of CrossFit ... Continue Reading