Tag: crossfit
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Best Path For Fame and Fortune? Weightlifting or Crossfit
So you’ve been training for a few years and you’ve built yourself into an incredible athlete with a lot of potential, but now you’re wondering where to focus your attention. You’ve got a solid base of raw and technical strength so you have the option to be an olympic weightlifter, but you also excel at…
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The Best Protein Powder For Crossfit Athletes in 2020
As we’ve stated many times before Crossfit athletes have different priorities than athletes of other sports and generally care much more about what they ingest compared to the average gym-goer. When it comes to protein powder things are especially important as most Crossfitters may have 2-3 shakes a day depending on their routine. Even if…
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A Final Review of The 2020 Crossfit Open Leaderboard + Stats
Before we get into things it would be best to check out our latest post… 2020 Crossfit Open Programming Analysis + Breakdown If you’ve already read that post you would know that a few pretty big changes came to the 2020 Open. Now we’re going to look at how those changes affected the worldwide leaderboard,…
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2020 Crossfit Open Programming Analysis + Breakdown
And just like that the 2020 Crossfit Open has come to an end. As it was the second Open in 2019 we were not sure what to expect and we were still surprised with some of what we saw, and didn’t see. After every competition we like to take a look at the programmed workouts…
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Streat Hoerner 20.5 Split Times
This Thursday 2x Crossfit Games competitor and 2017’s 14th fittest man on Earth Streat Hoerner battled 2x Crossfit Games competitor and 2018’s 9th fittest man on Earth Willy Georges in France for the live announcement of 20.5. For time, partitioned any way:40 muscle-ups80-cal. row120 wall-ball shots, 20-lb. ball to 10 ft. TIME CAP: 20:00 MIN Unfortunately…
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Crossfit Open 20.4 vs 20.3: Which Was Actually Heavier?
For those of us in the Crossfit world that love a heavy barbell we have been spoiled the last couple of weeks with the deadlifts in 20.3 and the clean and jerks in 20.4 Both workouts for the men ended at 315 pounds and both ended at 205 for the women, but one workout was…
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Speed vs Strength: Crossfit Open Workout 20.4 Strategy
Crossfit Open workout 20.4 is a chipper in which the weight on the clean and jerks increase while the reps decrease. This is definitely not the first time a workout like this has been programmed and we actually have a perfect example on how to perform well in this workout no matter where your advantages…
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Rogue Echo Bike Calorie Conversion Chart
It is always nice to know how your efforts are paying off, especially when it comes to the always fun Rogue Echo Bike. In terms of obviousness when it comes to the bike the faster you move the faster the fan spins and the faster you score calories, but top speeds are not sustainable for…
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4 Reasons Why Crossfit Should Use and Allow The Sumo Deadlift
The conventional deadlift has been a staple in Crossfit from the beginning and since then the reps have only gotten higher and the weight heavier. The deadlift also happens to be Crossfit HQ’s favorite movement to test strength during the worldwide Open. In the past 9 years (2011-2019) there have been a total of 8…
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Just How Tough Is The Rogue Invitational?
The Rogue Invitational, perhaps the most popular Sanctional of the 2019 Crossfit season was stacked with talent with most of it’s competitors not even having to qualify due to their reputation at the top. But exactly how tough was the competition? Well, first of all the Rogue Invitational was the toughest Sanctional out of the…