What hasn't five-time Fittest Man on Earth® Mat Fraser dabbled in since his retirement from competitive CrossFit in February 2021? The all-time winningest male CrossFit athlete is now a coach via his Hard Work Pays Off (HWPO) programming, with elite athletes like 2022 CrossFit Open winner Mal O'Brien under his...
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Movements like the kettlebell windmill offer coaches and athletes both stability and mobility training benefits across most joints and tissues of the human body. Strength, power, and finess athletes can utilize the kettlebell windmill to improve hip mobility, increase shoulder...
Read moreCrossFit® is often referred to and known as “the sport of fitness”, but originally got its roots as a fitness regimen developed around functional exercises and high-intensity workouts. CrossFit® is a registered trademark of CrossFit, Inc.; more information can be found at their website, CrossFit.com.
This fitness methodology numerous movement staples, including:
These are a few of the movements an athlete can perform in any given CrossFit® workout. In order to excel in this sport, an athlete must be well-rounded and carefully curate programs that improve strength, mobility, power, and much more.
Two-time Fittest Woman on Earth® Annie Thorisdottir made a statement at the 2021 CrossFit Games by placing third overall in dramatic fashion. Tia-Clair Toomey-Orr won the 2021 CrossFit Games, and Laura Horváth placed second. This is Thorisdottir's sixth podium finish at a CrossFit Games and her 11th time competing in...
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On April 7, 2022, CrossFit announced the Team workouts for the month-long Quarterfinals event, which will run from Friday, April 8 through Sunday April 10. There are five workouts in total. The Individual portion of the Quarterfinals has wrapped. The...
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The 2022 CrossFit Quarterfinals kicked off on March 24, 2022, and featured the top 10 percent of athletes from each continent on the 2022 CrossFit Open leaderboard. Given that only the top 120 individual athletes and top 80 teams from...
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CrossFitter Casey Acree is the reigning CrossFit Games champion in the Men's Upper Extremity Adaptive division — he was born without his left arm below the elbow. According to CrossFit's leaderboard, Acree finished 6,603rd worldwide in the Men's Rx'd division...
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Sports statistics has a long history. In baseball, the use of stats goes back to the early 1800s but didn't really start to take shape until 1867 when a man named Henry Chadwick wanted to recognize batters who got on...
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Our guest today needs almost no introduction. Mat Fraser is a 5-time CrossFit Games Champion. He has a lengthy background in strength sports as a youth weightlifter, all the way through to the fittest man in history. I've known Mat...
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On March 28, 2022, four-time CrossFit Games competitor Bethany Shadburne announced her withdrawal from the 2022 CrossFit season due to a back injury suffered during the Quarterfinals. Per the caption in her post on her Instagram page where she disclosed...
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