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On the Bubble
For some, it came down to one rep or a second’s rest. Hilary Achauer reports on athletes who just barely made—or missed—the top 60 cut in the Reebok CrossFit Games Open. At the end of the Reebok...
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Killing the Fat Man: Episode 1
Twenty years ago, Gary Roberts was a 187-lb. Marine. Today, he’s roughly 270 lb. and starting to believe he’s destined for an early heart attack or open-heart surgery. Join Roberts—and CrossFit HQ...
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Cooking Beijing Bok Choy
In this Asian-inspired episode of Cooking With Michele Vieux, the CrossFit Invictus coach takes on baby bok choy. The vegetable, Vieux explains, tastes similar to cabbage. “They’re a little juicier...
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The Everett Warm-Up
HQ trainer and old-school CrossFitter Josh Everett takes you through his warm-up, which is designed to get the body primed for high-intensity functional movement. In Part 1, Everett breaks things...
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Serving the Soldiers
Brian Wilson explains how CrossFit Walter Reed works to help injured veterans improve their fitness. CrossFit Walter Reed began as an experiment with two athletes. Just by chance, I had two injured...
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CrossFit Football: Specific Adaptation to Imposed Demands
If you’re reading this, chances are you’re a gym rat, and Raphael Ruiz of CrossFit Football says it’s easy for you to fall prey to the “curse of the gifted.” Those drawn to the gym-rat mentality...
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Pinky and the Bumper
The same thing we do every class: help kids have fun taking over the fitness world. In this game featuring a Pinky Ball and a bumper plate, your kids will learn about accuracy, coordination and...
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Killing the Fat Man: Episode 2
“Week 2: Ready to get my ass kicked.” Gary Roberts knows it’s going to take work to reclaim his body and his fitness at Oceanside CrossFit, and he’s up for the challenge in Episode 2. After...
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A Fight to Remember
Molly Godby commits to a lifelong fight against the disease that took her mother. When people ask me why I do CrossFit, I can give the standard answers: “It’s addictive. I love the way it makes me...
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Set-Up and Positioning in the Olympic Lifts Part 3: Set-Up Variations
What’s the right way to approach the bar in the Olympic lifts? There isn’t one, Coach Mike Burgener says during this CrossFit Olympic Weightlifting Trainer Course. To illustrate, he has six of his...
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CrossFit Radio Episode 220
On Episode 220 of CrossFit Radio, host Justin Judkins interviewed CrossFit by Bodyfit owner Kevin Penner and CrossFit HQ staff trainer E.C. Synkowski. This episode was webcast live at 6 p.m. PDT on...
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Fashionista Finds CrossFit
Her work colleagues want fitness tips, and her CrossFit friends ask for fashion advice. Nicole Biscuiti on balancing a fashion career with CrossFit dreams. I am a public-relations executive in the...
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Cooking Braised Cauliflower
Join Michele Vieux as she cooks up one of her personal favorites: braised cauliflower. The CrossFit Invictus coach begins with a tablespoon of ghee, two tablespoons of fresh minced garlic, half a head...
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Nine-Month WOD
Bayley Lawrence talks about her experience CrossFitting while pregnant. Pregnancy is a workout only CrossFit could design: Start with an empty vest. For every week that goes by, add 1/4 to 1 lb. to...
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Coaching Session: Packing It Into an Hour
Think you can’t fit it all into an hour? Watch Gary Baron work his magic. The Rocklin CrossFit co-owner and coach begins with a group warm-up that looks like more than just a warm-up. For the first 25...
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Killing the Fat Man: Episode 3
For the past eight years, Gary Roberts says he’s been going through an identity crisis. He’s contemplated suicide, gone to counseling to better his relationship with his teenage daughter and tied his...
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Just Squat
“Regardless of what the problem is, the answer is to squat.” Those are the words of CrossFit founder and CEO Greg Glassman. “People who do not know how to squat do not have normal hip function, don’t...
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400 Percent
Forcing children into sport-specific training can be detrimental. Jeff Martin explains. A 400 percent increase—that’s huge. If we were talking about your deadlift, that would be spectacular. Instead,...
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Fight Training and CrossFit Regionals
A little more than two weeks after he competes in the Canada West Regional as part of the team Pure Fitness Red Deer, Jason MacDonald will head to Virginia for a UFC fight. The 36-year-old has been...
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Crunchy Chicken Tenders
Do you want to be the coolest parent around? Then send your kids to school with crunchy chicken tenders in their brown-bag lunch! While all the other kids are eating soggy chicken tenders from the...
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