Tag: crossfit
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Crossfitters VS Spartan Racers. Who Is Fitter?
The two are almost interchangeable at times. Many people competing at Spartan races happen to be avid Crossfitters and many full time Spartan racers incorporate a lot of Crossfit into their training. However, there are a couple of differences that separate the two and because of this one of these athlete groups can be considered…
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Tia-Clair Toomey Morning Session Workout
In the Crossfit world Tia-Clair Toomey needs no introduction. Ever since her first appearance at the Crossfit Games in 2015 she has never finished below 2nd place, going 2nd, 2nd, 1st, 1st, 1st. And as the first female to ever win the Crossfit Games 3x she obviously knows what she’s doing when it comes to…
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The Complete List of All Crossfit Games Winners
In order to make your Crossfit research easier we have compiled a comprehensive list of all Crossfit Games winners from the past 14 years (2007-2022). With each year below we include the top 3 individual males, individual females, every teen division, every masters division, and teams along with each of their corresponding countries and point…
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Athlete Profile: Jamie Greene (Simmonds)
Ever since her first Crossfit Open in 2014 Jamie Greene, now Jamie Simmonds, has been a part of the top 1% of the sport. In just two short years she went from placing 391st worldwide in the Open to winning it. Since then she has not finished outside of the top 10 in the Open….
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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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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…