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Is CrossFit HQ Trolling You?
Recently, the CrossFit Games social media department reposted this video of Brooke Wells’ 345lb back squat double. Nice work, Brooke. → Read More
Resolve to Make This Your Best CrossFit Year
How did you do last year? Did you make the masters qualifier or the regionals team as you had set out to do at the beginning of the year? Did you hit that 200lb snatch or get the sub-four minute Fran? These are my hopes for the new year for you as a functional fitness aficionado. Pick one, pick them all. Happy New Year! → Read More
3 Movements the CrossFit Games Needs to Ditch
Dave Castro has come up with some pretty solid competition workouts. “The Pool” in 2013 (swimming and bar muscle ups) was a beautifully simple test of multiple layers of fitness and skill. The 2014 “Muscle Up Biathlon” (400-meter runs and muscle ups) was a fantastic and uncomplicated couplet that tested skill under fatigue. → Read More
Missed Attempt: The CrossFit Liftoff Was Just CrossFit
CrossFit HQ brought us the same old run-of-the-mill event with a new title. When will they try something new? → Read More
The Formula for a Successful CrossFit Gym
There are now more than 10,000 CrossFit gyms around the globe and counting. While most follow the same general template, the nuances differ greatly from affiliate to affiliate. Most gym-goers will fiercely defend their own box as the best. → Read More
A New Era of CrossFit Dream Teaming
On November 12, 2015, two-time CrossFit Games competitor and GRID athlete with the Boston Iron Lindy Barber announced she was moving to Tennessee to join Rich Froning’s Team, CrossFit Mayhem Freedom. → Read More
The Time Is Now: Stand Up for Gender Equality in CrossFit
In Part One of this series, I discussed gender inequality in CrossFit and in women’s sports at large. It takes more for women to have an equal playing field with men - the “more” being a hypersexualized portrayal of oneself. → Read More
Gender Equality Is Broken: In CrossFit, Sex Sells
Female athletes often feel pressure from sponsors to market their sexuality online. It's time to change the cultural landscape of self-objectification. → Read More
Gender Inequality: The Ugly Truth About Female Sponsorships
Too often exploitation is the price women pay for sponsorship. → Read More
Dear Wodapalooza: Stop Insulting Masters Athletes
We're a pretty badass group of athletes, and if you want the best of us, you need to act like it. → Read More
CrossFitters: Time to Call Ourselves Out on the Shenanigans
Hey CrossFitters, have you ever noticed that we rarely call “shenanigans” on ourselves? As a tribe, we love to do a lot of outrageous, experimental, and potentially dangerous things, photograph them, and then send the photos off to HQ with hopes they post it on the main site, or repost on their social media accounts. → Read More
Rich Froning Is Not the Fittest Man In History
CrossFit, Inc. recently posted this on their Facebook Page, promising that “The documentary you've been waiting for," Froning: The Fittest Man in History would finally be available on iTunes on October 2nd. → Read More
Soldier Suicide and Memorial WODs: We Can Do More
On August 31, 2015, Becky Sefscik took her own life. Becky was a former United States Navy shipmate, and a coach at CrossFit The Tracks in Erlanger, Kentucky. She was a friend to many, a sister, and a daughter. → Read More