CrossFit and Swim Training
Sport-specific training is a hot topic in collegiate athletic programs. How to optimize in-sport capacity through gym work is a very important part of training, and how teams go about that can be as...
View ArticleOn the Mic with Rob
CrossFit Games competitor and strongman and Rob Orlando is known for his amazing feats of strength and his impressive work capacity. His performance in the 2009 Games as well as WOD demos on...
View ArticleCrossFit Lessons Outside the Box
Former rollergirl Melissa Joulwan learns CrossFit’s lessons can be applied long after the WOD is over. I recently endured a personal crisis that brought me down like a 20-lb. medicine ball slammed...
View ArticlePose Running: Pull vs. Push
Dr. Nicholas Romanov is in front of a crowd of CrossFit subject-matter experts, HQ trainers and media to explain how to run efficiently, safely and sustainably—how to run in the Pose Method. The...
View ArticleBehind the Games: Part 2
You’ve already seen Part 1 of Sevan Matossian’s Behind the Games where he showed you the action taking place that didn’t make it to the live feed. This second installation sweeps through the second...
View ArticleInterview With the New Champ: Part 1
Shortly after a golden bumper plate was hung around his neck, an exhausted Graham Holmberg walked off the floor of the Home Depot Center and back to reality. His torn-up hands grasped a check for...
View ArticleA Natural Self-Defense Tool Box
CrossFitting combative expert Tony Blauer of Blauer Tactical Systems is an avid CrossFitter who developed the SPEAR self-defense system—spontaneous protection enabling accelerated response. Blauer’s...
View ArticleInterview With the New Champ: Part 2
Shortly after a golden bumper plate was hung around his neck, an exhausted Graham Holmberg walked off the floor of the Home Depot Center and back to reality. His torn-up hands grasped a check for...
View ArticleCooking With Tommy and Terry
Tommy Hackenbruck, Renaissance man? You’ve seen Tommy Hacks master the sledgehammer and the wheelbarrow at the CrossFit Games. Now see how the former construction worker and linebacker fares in the...
View ArticleFear and Loathing in L.A.
The CrossFit Journal cut Kevin Daigle loose at the CrossFit Games and found him passed out in the parking lot days later. Here’s what he can remember of the competition. Kevin Daigle asked for press...
View ArticleCrossFit Radio, Episode 132
On Episode 132 of CrossFit Radio, host Justin Judkins interviewed Ben Abruzzo, who is raising awareness for spinal muscular atrophy. Dave Lombardo and Pam Robles appeared on the show again to update...
View ArticleChatting with Lindsey Smith
Lindsey Smith is one of an elite group of ladies (think Kepler, Cardella, Sharratt) training out of CrossFit Central in Austin, Texas. In her former athletic life, Smith was a scholarship soccer...
View ArticleThe Zone Chronicles: Post-Workout Nutrition Part 2
In his continuing survey of elite trainers and their post-workout nutrition strategies, Pat Sherwood interviews jet-setting coaches E.C. Synkowski, Chuck Carswell and Adrian Bozman in San Diego,...
View ArticleJust Lift ... and Coach
“Just lift heavy weights,” Anders Lindsjö says in this installment of footage from a weightlifting workshop at Eleiko headquarters in Halmstad, Sweden. After drilling technique, Lindsjö sets his...
View ArticleWorking out for Two
Lauren Joseph CrossFits throughout her pregnancy and is back on the C2 only a week after giving birth to a healthy baby girl. I had been CrossFitting for just shy of a year and when I found out I was...
View ArticleStrategy and the Games
It’s been a long twelve months for Tommy Hackenbruck and wife Bobbie Jo: they’ve opened a new CrossFit facility (Ute CrossFit) and had a baby, and they’ve done it all while Tommy worked to improve his...
View ArticleTruly Special Populations
Josh MacDonald uses a host of methods to help children move better, and he’s finding CrossFit is a great tool for a pediatric occupational therapist. As a pediatric occupational therapist, I work with...
View ArticleBehind the Games: Part 3
Sevan Matossian’s Behind the Games continues to show you the other side of the story from the Home Depot Center in Carson, Calif. This third installment covers the last day of the competition as the...
View ArticleThe Pit Fight Team
John Hackleman is best known as the man in the corner of former UFC champion Chuck (The Iceman) Liddell, but he’s also the trainer behind a host of other martial artists. In this video shot at...
View ArticleBefore She Was Champion
The fittest woman on earth eats rice? Believe it, CrossFitter. In this interview shot in the athletes’ warm-up area during the 2010 CrossFit Games, soon-to-be champion Kristan Clever talks about being...
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