Category: Crossfit
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How Much Prize Money Rich Froning Has Won Throughout His Crossfit Career
Everyone knows it pays to be the champ. The most decorated Crossfit athlete of all time, Rich Froning has been competing since 2010 and has only known success. Along with that success has come a good deal of prize money, but how much exactly? We break it down below. 2011 Regionals 1st place: Central East…
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Here’s What It Would Look Like If Crossfit Had Weight Classes
Yesterday the official Crossfit Games Instagram page published a post explaining their reasoning behind why they don’t separate athletes by weight classes such as mixed martial arts or boxing. Their statement: “Nature has no regard for your weight. Fitness is about task accomplishment — your ability to do work. A very small number of sports…
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Athletic Backgrounds of Top Crossfit Athletes
As a Crossfit athlete it does not necessarily matter how good you were at your previous sport or your proficiency in the skills of that sport, because that is only going to be one aspect of your functional fitness competition. But, once an athlete, always an athlete. The competitive mindset and constant desire for physical…
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Interval Workouts For The Rogue Echo Bike
Incorporating the echo bike into a workout immediately makes it 10x nastier, but this post is here to show you how you can get a good workout in with just the bike on it’s own. Whether your goals are muscular endurance, aerobic capacity, intense fat loss, or muscle gain, the following workouts can be chosen…
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Necessary Strength in Crossfit: The Games vs Sanctionals vs The Open
Although the Crossfit foundation pyramid, or “theoretical hierarchy of development” looks like this: Many athletes tend to actually place a much higher emphasis on strength when it comes to training for Crossfit competitions, however that may not be the best use of their time. It is true that the stronger you are the easier every…
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Looking At The Functional Fitness Boom In America
Although the later half of the 20th century was dominated by bodybuilding the 2000’s have been all about functional fitness and high intensity interval training (HIIT). The most popular functional fitness program in the world right now is Crossfit and perhaps not surprisingly it was also the first to get in the game. Below we…
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This Shows Just How Good Cole Sager Really Is
Last week we wrote a post where we chose Cole Sager as one of our favorites to win the 2020 Wodapalooza competition even though he was underdog. Well, he ended up in a tie with Patrick Vellner at 714 points and unfortunately lost the tie break awarding him the silver instead of the gold. Although…
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Tia-Clair Toomey Vs Sara Sigmundsdottir at Wodapalooza 2020
Heading into Wodapalooza 2020 both Tia-Clair Toomey and Sara Sigmundsdottir were coming off of Sanctionals wins. Tia had just dominated the inaugural Mayhem Classic where she won 6 out of 7 events and got 2nd in the only one she didn’t win. Sara had just won the Crossfit Filthy 150 and the Dubai Crossfit Championship,…
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These Are The Athletes Most Likely To Win Wodapalooza 2020
One of the most competitive Sanctionals of the 2020 season, second only to the Rogue Invitational, Wodapalooza 2020 starts tomorrow and some heavy hitters are looking for a big pay day. Last year Crossfit Games podium veteran Patrick Vellner won the men’s side by a large margin of 124 points over second place while on…
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Sara Sigmundsdóttir: Queen Of Sanctionals
With the introduction of worldwide Crossfit Sanctionals last year athletes have had the choice to ignore them and focus on the Open as their path to the Crossfit Games or embrace them and make some money on the side. And no one has embraced them more than Sara Sigmundsdóttir. Since 2019 Sigmundsdottir has competed in…