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The Greek and the Games
Epictetus never did Karen or Fran, but he definitely would have understood your determination to get through the many tests of the CrossFit Games Open. “Let others practice lawsuits, others study...
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The CrossFit Tour, Kiwi Style
What’s scarier? Bungee jumping or a heavy Fran? “Oh, I’d rather do that,” says CrossFit Inc. videographer Jordan Gravatt, pointing to the bridge from where he just bungee jumped. At the January...
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February 2014 Collected Articles
The individual PDF articles published in February 2014 are collected here in a single download. The video and audio posts are not contained in the PDF. The articles included here are: Wrangling the...
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CrossFit Radio Episode 319
On Episode 319 of CrossFit Radio, host Justin Judkins interviewed two of the top five male athletes from the 2013 Reebok CrossFit Games. Garret Fisher placed fifth last year, and Scott Panchik was...
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Dusty Hyland: Backward Roll to Support
The recommended prerequisites for a backward roll to support on the rings are a strict muscle-up and a deep ring push-up, according to Dusty Hyland of Dogtown CrossFit. “The backward roll is literally...
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Kipping Pull-Ups for KIPP School
Knowledge Is Power Program school relies on Los Angeles affiliate owners to help bring CrossFit to new East L.A. junior high. Paul Austad, Candice Ryu and Shirley Brown didn’t know each other until...
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Rich Froning: Day at the Office
Before three-time CrossFit Games champion Rich Froning Jr. started CrossFit, his two greatest fears were public speaking and large crowds. “Welcome. Welcome to hell,” CrossFit HQ’s Pat Sherwood tells...
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Crashing the Party
CrossFit athletes increased their presence at this year’s CRASH-B event, helping the sport of rowing grow and change its image. Andréa Maria Cecil reports. When Syn Martinez walked into the arena, he...
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Backstage Pass: Open Workout 14.1
In the duel for Garrett Fisher’s leather jacket, it was Rory McKernan who lost and Dave Castro who won. And thus CrossFit Inc.’s Director of the Games and Director of Training donned the debonair...
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Sweat and Sobriety
Researchers are discovering exercise—especially intense exercise—can be an effective part of treatment of addiction, but it isn’t the only part. The solitary-confinement cell at Florence State Prison...
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The CrossFit Tour: Competition in Kiwi Country
It began with hang snatches and ended with a tiebreaker whose name was Fran. The January CrossFit Tour stop in New Zealand not only gathered affiliate owners and community members to mingle and sweat,...
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CrossFit Radio Episode 320
On Episode 320 of CrossFit Radio, host Justin Judkins interviewed James Pattison, owner of CrossFit 13 in Essex, England; Craig Kenney, who was tied for second place overall in the Open after Workout...
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Rams and Bulls: CrossFit Kids Take on 14.1
It’s not often that you can do an Open workout with CrossFit Games competitor Elisabeth Akinwale as your judge. That’s what students at Chicago Bulls College Prep got—in addition to 14.1’s prescription...
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Backstage Pass: Open Workout 14.2
In the days leading up to the announcement of Open Workout 14.2, Dave Castro reveals a hint. “It’s not fun and friendly anymore,” he says from I AM CrossFit outside Miami, Fla., where Talayna Fortunato...
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Success and the Bull’s Eye
Journalist Jon Friedman offers his views on why CrossFit has become an easy target for media criticism. Throughout history, there is one other constant in addition to the inevitability of death and...
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CrossFit Radio Episode 321
On Episode 321 of CrossFit Radio, host Justin Judkins interviewed both ladies that will face off against each other for Open Announcement 14.3 in New Orleans, Louisiana. The first half of the show...
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Building Behemoths: Part 1
Bill Starr offers simple strategies for anyone training for strongman competitions. The various Iron Man Events, and particularly the most popular one of all, The World’s Strongest Man, came along in...
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CrossFit Belltown: The Old Curiosity Shop
The lounge at Nadia Shatila’s gym contains many leather-bound books and smells of rich mahogany. It has a cache of whisky, a dartboard and a carefully arranged collection of assorted curiousities that...
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From Mud to Mortar
Over three years, CrossFit Inc. and affiliates around the world have literally changed the landscape in a handful of villages in Kenya. CrossFit Inc. has been involved with changing lives along the...
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Backstage Pass: Open Workout 14.3
The saying goes that New Orleanians love Jesus, Sean Payton and Drew Brees. And during football season, not necessarily in that order. On March 13, the Crescent City showed it also loved CrossFit as...
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