Tag: Sport: CrossFit
What Training for an Ultramarathon Looks Like
Hybrid athlete Fergus Crawley is known for his strength and endurance quests. He’s run a sub-five-minute mile after squatting 500 pounds and completed a sub-12-hour Ironman after logging a 1,200-pound total in a powerlifting meet. Crawley intends to improve upon that feat by running a 250-kilometer ultramarathon while remaining capable of scoring a 600-kilogram powerlifting total. It’s not…
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“I’m So Excited” — Inside the 2024 Adaptive CrossFit Season With WheelWOD’s Kevin Ogar
Kevin Ogar has been busy. After the Oct. 2023 announcement that CrossFit Adaptive divisions will no longer compete at the CrossFit Games, the owner of CrossFit WatchTower and the co-owner of WheelWOD is also serving as the Event Director of the 2024 Adaptive CrossFit Games. As the 2024 season unfolds, Adaptive athletes across 15 divisions will be competing…
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YouTuber Will Tennyson Learns the Clean & Jerk the Hard Way From CrossFit Games Champion Mat Fraser
“You’re just gonna leave me to it?” Will Tennyson says, his voice quivering gently, as he approaches an unloaded barbell. Scoffing a bit, five-time Fittest Man on Earth® Mat Fraser offers encouragement, “Just do a few reps. We’ll see what your starting point is.” On Jan. 18, 2024, YouTuber Tennyson published a training vlog alongside CrossFit legend Fraser…
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Annie Thorisdottir and Katrin Davíðsdóttir’s 6 Tips For Sticking to Your Goals
Each January, gyms all over the globe experience a surge in memberships as people commit to New Year’s resolutions centered around fitness. According to PLoS, approximately a third of all resolutions are fitness and health-focused (the most of any category). Unfortunately, a third of resolutions are likely to fail by the end of a given year. (1) On…
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How Patrick and Kristi O’Connell Program Training for Their 2024 HYROX Debuts in Houston
CrossFit turned hybrid athletes Patrick O’Connell and Kristi O’Connell will make their HYROX debuts at the 2024 HYROX Houston contest on March 16, 2024, in Texas. They’re tailoring their workouts to HYROX’s prioritization of functional fitness combined with running. HYROX races feature eight stations, with one-kilometer runs between each: On Jan. 21, 2024, the O’Connells published a video on their YouTube channel documenting their…
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How CrossFit Athlete Josh Bridges’ Training Has Changed at 40 Years Old
Former United States Navy SEAL and six-time CrossFit Games athlete Josh Bridges’ competitive career highlight is a second-place finish at the 2011 Games behind four-time Fittest Man on Earth® Rich Froning. Bridges last competed as an elite Individual at the CrossFit Games in 2018 to a 31st-place finish. Though Bridges doesn’t compete at the highest level of CrossFit anymore,…
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2024 HYROX Maastricht Results
The HYROX season in 2024 got underway with the first contest of the calendar year in Maastricht, Netherlands, on Jan. 20, 2024. The pro divisions, both Individual and Doubles, brought the heat with some blazingly fast times across the eight exercises weaved with one-kilometer runs. Tomas Tvrdik and Jennifer Nikolaus stood atop the podiums for the Individual Pro…
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What Colten Mertens Thinks Is Wrong With CrossFit Programming
CrossFit training comprises three modalities — weightlifting, gymnastics, and mono-structural movements. CrossFit competitions test athletes’ fitness through programming that combines those modalities. While the nuances of competition programming can often go unnoticed by fans, the subtleties could mean the difference between victory and defeat for athletes at the elite level. On Jan. 6, 2024, four-time CrossFit Games athlete…
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Ilya Ilyin’s Lost Training Footage PLUS Larry Wheels Tries Pilates, Strength Weekly 1/22
Strength Weekly is the show keeping you up to date from around the barbell game! This week, we’re covering: Here’s the run of show for this week: 00:00 Intro 00:45 Run of show 01:55 Never before seen Ilya Ilyin footage 04:00 Contextualizing Ilyin’s career 07:05 Recapping 2024 Wodapalooza Miami 08:30 Prestige on the team side 11:50 Who showed…
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Hybrid Athlete Fergus Crawley Does These 6 Things Every Day to Optimize Recovery
Fergus Crawley has been carrying the banner for “hybrid” mixed-modality training for years now. For those unaware, hybrid training has gained momentum recently for its well-rounded, diverse approach to athleticism — think several strength training workouts each week alongside several sessions of conditioning or cardio. All that hard work takes a toll, though. On Jan. 15, 2024, Crawley…
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