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Lifeline to Independence
Anna Woods describes workouts that showcase the creativity needed to provide functional movement skills to clients with challenges including cerebral palsy, Down syndrome and paraplegia. CrossFit for...
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Going to Haiti: Choosing Happiness
For five weeks, Emily Beers obsessed about the CrossFit Games Open. She tied her self-worth to her performance. Then she went to Haiti. And things changed. “Today I’m surrounded by poverty and hunger....
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Diamond in the Roughhousing
With MLB playoff battles raging, Mike Warkentin looks at the anatomy of the bench-clearing baseball fight. A precisely manicured ball field is a thing of beauty, and the best are gorgeous temples built...
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CrossFit Radio Episode 300
On Episode 300 of CrossFit Radio, host Justin Judkins interviewed Thomas Cox, a CrossFit Mayhem coach who is also a member of its affiliate team. This episode was webcast on October 16, 2013. 2:45...
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More Core: L-Sit Press to Handstand
Using wooden plyometrics boxes, bumper plates and dumbbells, Sean Lind of CrossFit Gymnastics shows a progression for developing an L-sit press to handstand. At the CrossFit Experience at this year’s...
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Son of Anarchy?
Motorcycle nomad Pat Sherwood says he understands the lure of gangs—and he’s proud to be a member of the CrossFit crew. I understand why people join gangs. In my mind, your gang is simply the crew you...
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Go South, Episode 6: A Worthy Risk
On Friday the 13th, CrossFit Media’s Pat Sherwood and Ian Wittenber were headed from Guatemala City, Guatemala, to El Salvador. The border, though, wasn’t what they had anticipated. “It looked...
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Journey Behind Bars: Part 1
Canadian Karl Thorson currently resides in a California penitentiary. Emily Beers explains how he got there. The story of the convict has been told many times before. Usually it’s recounted after the...
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“None of This Would Exist Without You”
You might be forgiven for not recognizing his name. Steve Hug was 16 years of age in 1968, when, in Mexico City, he became the youngest U.S. male Olympian in history. He competed again in the ’72...
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David Durante: Planche Progressions
“Planche is not something that you would expect to be able to just jump in right away and do in Day 1,” says David Durante, an alternate on the 2008 USA Gymnastics Olympic team and a member of the...
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CrossFit Radio Episode 301
On Episode 301 of CrossFit Radio, host Justin Judkins interviewed two-time CrossFit Games athlete Talayna Fortunato. This episode was webcast on Oct. 23, 2013. 2:26 Talayna Fortunato and the rest of...
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Blind Athlete: Might as Well Jump
Bettina Dolinsek was born blind, but she never asked to be treated differently. That same attitude carries over into her CrossFit training, and she doesn’t shy away from movements—even box jumps....
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Ironman Meets the California Bear
In 1985, Chris Hinshaw finished the Ironman in second place, and at the peak of his career, he was one of the best triathletes in the world. But years of endurance training left him brittle and barely...
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Confessions of a Testosterone-Drunk Jackass
Pat Sherwood isn’t lost in Central America and doesn’t want your god-damn help. Mistakes made and lessons learned. As I write this, we have been living on motorcycles for 64 days and covered nearly...
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Go South, Episode 7: Bolting for Colombia
It’s Day 50 of Pat Sherwood and Ian Wittenber’s journey from the U.S. to Chile, and they’re at a Kawasaki dealership in Panama City, Panama, to service their motorcycles in preparation for air shipment...
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Doping in Sports: A Pound of Cure
From 1999 to 2007, Dick Pound was the world’s most outspoken critic of doping in sports. The Canadian lawyer, who was also vice president of the International Olympic Committee, battled against...
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’Roids All the Rage?
Former WADA head Dick Pound rejects claims sports have purged themselves of steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs. The Director General of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) commended Major...
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Mummy Circle
Connor Stewart Martin, wrapped in bandages and lumbering toward you with arms outstretched, describes a Halloween-themed game for CrossFit Kids. Many children associate Halloween with trick-or-treating...
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October 2013 Collected Articles
The individual PDF articles published in October 2013 are collected here in a single download. The video and audio posts are not contained in the PDF. The articles included here are: CrossFit:...
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Journey Behind Bars: Part 2
After getting caught with a suitcase of cocaine in November 2011, Karl Thorson was sentenced to 30 months in prison. From a penitentiary in California, he talks about finding fitness behind bars. “When...
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