Beauty in Strength
CrossFit can change how a woman both defines beauty and feels about her body, as Rita Benavidez, Jackie Perez, Erin Cianciolo and Andrea Ager discuss in this video. Once thinking beauty was a picture...
View ArticleCrossFit and GPP
Tony Leyland explains why general physical preparedness is a good thing for elite athletes and beginners. These are exciting times for the avid CrossFitter. The continued growth of the CrossFit Games,...
View ArticleConnecting Through CrossFit
A mother and son strengthen their bond through a shared love of CrossFit. Hilary Achauer reports. Barbara Pappas had always been healthy. Growing up in Germany, she ate a diet relatively free of...
View ArticleA Short Running Lesson With Dr. Nicholas Romanov, Part 1: Falling Position
When Pose Method creator Dr. Nicholas Romanov meets Bret Ellis, he notes his muscles. “Your fitness level is intimidating,” Romanov says, “but, unfortunately, your running, it sucks.” At the recent...
View ArticleCrossFitting With an Autoimmune Disease
At 19 years old, Nick Zavoda was diagnosed with psoriatic arthritis. The symptoms: pain, swelling or stiffness in one or more joints, and joints that are red and warm to the touch. While in paramedic...
View ArticleCrossFit at Work
At Vertical Turbine Specialists in Lubbock, Texas, they make turbine parts and happy employees. The 50-year-old family-owned manufacturer provides chiropractic services, Zone meals and CrossFit to its...
View ArticleDallin Frampton: CrossFit in Kenya
CrossFit is changing lives in Africa. Emily Beers asks Dallin Frampton how the affiliate community can help. In February 2011, CrossFit Founder and CEO Greg Glassman and a group of CrossFit personnel...
View ArticleCrossFit Games Behind the Scenes: Friday, Part 3
Hear from a host of athletes—including Annie Sakamoto, Graham Holmberg and Matt Chan—in this installment of Sevan Matossian’s Behind the Scenes series at the 2012 Reebok CrossFit Games. “Experience is...
View ArticleAnt Colony
Ants are strong for their size—just like your CrossFit Kids. This nature-inspired CrossFit Kids game is great fun and also leaves lots of space for creative trainers to insert extra work and...
View ArticleBox Tour: I Am CrossFit
You don’t have to go far within the walls of I Am CrossFit in Miami to find inspiration and camaraderie. “I don’t want to answer like everybody else, but I have to: it’s the community. It’s the...
View ArticleRenegade Rowing: Rowing meets CrossFit
Patrick Larcom, a coach at CrossFit Boston, seeks to bridge the gap between the sport of rowing and the sport of fitness. That’s why he created Renegade Rowing. Rowers arrive at 5:40 a.m. at Community...
View ArticleCrossFit Radio Episode 242
On Episode 242 of CrossFit Radio, host Justin Judkins interviewed 2012 Reebok CrossFit Games fifth-place finisher Valerie Voboril, as well as CrossFit Inferno owner Bill Grundler. This episode was...
View ArticleA Prescription for Living
Holly Gera works as the athletic director of a large Division III university, but she never considered herself an athlete—until she found CrossFit. I am an athletic director who was never an athlete....
View ArticleA Short Running Lesson With Dr. Nicholas Romanov, Part 2: Unweighting
At the recent CrossFit Tour stop in Big Sky, Mont., Dr. Nicholas Romanov worked with Bret Ellis to improve his running form. In Part 2, the creator of the Pose Method teaches Ellis, owner and head...
View ArticleCrossFit Games Behind the Scenes: Saturday, Part 1
Hear more from Games Director Dave Castro and find out what judges and coaches say in this installment of Sevan Matossian’s Behind the Scenes series at the 2012 Reebok CrossFit Games. In the warm-up...
View ArticleCoaching as a Skill: Verbal Cueing
Coaching can improve through progressions and practice. James Hobart offers cueing tips and drills to help you communicate with your athletes better. “A trainer trains.” —Greg Glassman Our coaching...
View ArticleSnatching With Limited Flexibility
At the recent CrossFit Tour stop in Big Sky, Mont., Olympic-weightlifting coach Mike Burgener hosted a clinic and of course handed out some burpees. In this clip, he helps Olivia Swant of CrossFit...
View ArticleServing a Community in Crisis
Teacher Chip Johnston starts a CrossFit affiliate in one of the nation’s most impoverished states and offers free classes to all students and teachers of the Milwaukee Public Schools system. Emily...
View ArticleA CrossFit Love Story
If there’s one word that describes Bob Brown, it’s “competitive.” But in 2004, a motorcycle accident changed that for a while. “Went into a coma and woke up two weeks later and my leg was gone,” Brown...
View ArticleQuick and Crunchy
Feeding your family can seem like a full-time job sometimes. You want your kids to eat healthy, but you also want some time to do the other 549 things on your to-do list. When time gets tight, whip up...
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