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  • October 30, 2025By Brian

    The seventh version of the Rogue Invitational is fast approaching. If you haven’t seen the previous article diving into the programming, check that out HERE. This article looks at the most likely top 12 finishers on the men’s side this year, culminating in a comparison against the commonalities in Rogue’s programming over the last three

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  • October 29, 2025By Brian

    I want to start off by saying that these are not my picks for the competition, you can find my predictions for all 20 athletes on the B.Friendly Fitness Instagram. Instead, while deciding my predictions, I took quite a few things in consideration. I consider a lot of data when I make my selections. I

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  • October 27, 2025By Brian

    The Rogue Invitational has a mysterious way of being the most predictable programming of all the high-level competitions, while also offering new spectacles and dozens of memorable moments each year. When it clearly isn’t broken, don’t fix it. Do what’s working. Do what’s you.  However, because of that, we have a relatively unique opportunity to

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  • July 28, 2025By Brian

    Despite a year in which the team competition at the CrossFit Games has been reduced to 20 teams, has had no live competition preceding it, and no video review process for the qualifying stage, the teams who are descending upon Albany, New York, USA…are actually really good. In addition to that, they probably do represent

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  • July 22, 2025By Brian

    This season is a wild one, with the emergence of WFP, the reduction in participation in the CrossFit Games season, some athletes doing everything, others doing seemingly nothing on the biggest stages… It’s a lot to keep track of.  There is no perfect way to quantify the world wide ranking of this sport at the

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  • July 22, 2025By Brian

    Over the last five plus years Barclay Dale has compiled the most comprehensive two year look at the global competitive fitness landscape, Apollo Performance Analytics. With all the changes to the competitive season this year, and all the conversation about where the best athletes are competing, and what the biggest accomplishment of this season would

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  • March 4, 2025By Brian

    Image Credit: Athlete’s Eye Photography If you missed the 2025 Power Rankings for the men, make sure to check it out, here’s the intro repeated in case you don’t care about the men’s field: The roster of all signed pros for the inaugural World Fitness Project (WFP) season has been out for just over a month

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  • February 25, 2025By Brian

    Image Credit: Athlete’s Eye Photography The roster of all signed pros for the inaugural World Fitness Project season has been out for just over a month now. It consists of 20 male and 20 female athletes, at least 80% of which are in the top-20 worldwide based on any ranking metric you want to go

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  • February 7, 2025By Brian

    The sixth year of what appears to be the largest growing competition in the United States in recent years is set to kick off in Charleston, South Carolina. For three days the North Charleston Coliseum and Convention Center will host nearly 1500 athletes across all divisions.  The unique format of FOTC gives athletes the option,

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  • February 7, 2025By Brian

    Last year we were fortunate to bring you guys coverage of one of the coolest competitions of the entire year for us from Pamplona, Spain. You might remember the athletes running on the streets where the running of the bulls take place, lifting stones reminiscent of some Basque area strongman sport, Karin Frey asserting dominance

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