Mikko Salo: Death by Clean and Jerk
Can’t get enough videos of 2009 CrossFit Games champion Mikko Salo? Neither can we. Sevan Matossian and a host of fans were lucky enough to catch Salo working out at the Eleiko Center in Sweden during...
View ArticleHiding Intensity
Capt. Richard Kelley offers five WODs designed to for austere environments and participants who may need incentives to put effort into intense workouts. The Air Force gets a bad reputation in terms of...
View ArticleBeating the Streets With Steve’s Club
In May 2007, Steve Liberati opened Steve’s Club, a non-profit CrossFit affiliate for urban youth in Camden, N.J. His goal was simple: improve the lives of the area’s youth through fitness and...
View ArticleClimbing the CrossFit Ranks
Kim Csizmazia and Will Gadd are an all-star couple in the world of multi-sport mountain athletics. Combine their extreme-sports accomplishments and you’ve got a stack of hardware including two world...
View ArticleTwo-Minute Drills Part 2: Treating That Sticky Rib
Mobility and recovery expert Kelly Starrett has a lot of unique ways to improve a client’s range of motion and flexibility without traditional static stretching. By using some basic principles of...
View ArticleAll Over the Map: Alverson and DeMarco
Ian Wittenber continues his journey to L.A., this time visiting Decatur and Atlanta, Ga., to chat with strong southern women Shana Alverson and Laura DeMarco. In 2009, Alverson didn’t feel like she...
View ArticleRegionals: The Lighter Side
CrossFit competitions are intense tests of physical skills—but they’re also where colorful characters let it all hang out. A now-sober Kevin Daigle reports. The more I compete in CrossFit, the more I...
View ArticleBenching With Louie: Part 3
Louie Simmons can make you strong, but how he does it can be a bit of a mystery. Louie, however, doesn’t keep any secrets and shares his techniques with the CrossFit community at Powerlifting Certs....
View ArticleSecrets of the Elite
Dave Castro is back with a group of top CrossFit athletes for a round-table discussion of training methodologies. Many of the athletes are preparing for the 2010 CrossFit Games. In Part 1, the...
View ArticleTennessee Titan: The Southeast Regional
The Southeast Regional was one of three events held on the last weekend of qualification, and the competition featured a host of big names from seven states. Many 2009 Games athletes were registered...
View ArticleCrossFit Radio Episode 126
On Episode 126 of CrossFit Radio, host Justin Judkins interviewed two female regional champions. First up was Canada Regional winner Alicia Connors, while the second half of the show featured Jasmine...
View ArticleJune 2010 Collected Articles
The individual PDF articles published in June 2010 are collected here in a single download. The video and audio articles are not contained in the PDF. The articles included here are: Castro - Snatch...
View ArticleInvincible Ignorance
“That’s dangerous.” How many times do you hear that when explaining your most recent workout to a friend or colleague? Making the case for CrossFit’s safety can be difficult and sometimes impossible...
View ArticleAll Over the Map: Froning and Kinney
With only two weeks until the first barbell flies at the 2010 CrossFit Games, Ian Wittenber is still cranking his way across the country, interviewing as many individual athletes as possible along the...
View ArticleSupplementation for Competition
Chris Mason outlines a plan of attack for CrossFit competitors interested in using supplements in hopes of increasing their performances. The CrossFit Games: perhaps a truer test of human fitness has...
View ArticleTommy Hacks
The 2010 Games are almost upon us, so Tommy Hackenbruck has to train hard at all times, and that includes burpees during a golf tournament. Flashback to May 2009 and Hackenbruck was scrambling to get...
View ArticleArm Wrestling 101: Rising Strength Part 3
Devon Larratt is a dedicated CrossFitter, husband and father of three, and he just happens to be the No. 1 right-handed arm wrestler in the world. His passion for arm sport was on display at a seminar...
View ArticleThe Discovery of Pose Running: Part 1
How are you supposed to run? Dr. Nicholas Romanov wants you to answer this question, but you probably can’t. Running is one of the most fundamental human movements, yet modern running shoes, poorly...
View ArticleTo Game or not to Game
The only way to win is to do more work faster—so how do we do that most efficiently? John Mc Evoy outlines one strategy. In our world, the stopwatch is king. It doesn’t lie and it doesn’t have...
View ArticleAll Over the Map: Ingraham, Ruiz, Zachary and Maruquin
Ian Wittenber of Again Faster has made it halfway across the country en route to the 2010 CrossFit Games. As he piles up the miles, he’s picking up interviews with individual Games athletes along the...
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