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  • September 27, 2023By Brian

    Photo Credit: Jordan Samuel/Power Monkey Fitness Stop 7: Crossville, Tennessee How’d I End Up Here? Back in the United States! Stop 7 brings us to the legendary Power Monkey Camp.  Last year at the Masters Fitness Championships  I had the chance to get to know Dave Durante, Mike Cerbus, and Jordan Samuel much better than I

  • September 26, 2023By Brian

    Photo Credit: Rickard Eimecke Stop five, Sweden. If you’ve missed any of the others: Stop 1: Finland – Turun Tuomiopäivä Stop 2: Utah – The Iron Games Stop 3: Three Rivers, Michigan (Pit Teen Throwdown)  Stop 4: Madrid Championship Following four-straight weeks of broadcasting events, the trip is taking a turn in a bit of

  • September 21, 2023By Brian

    Stop four, the Madrid Championship at the Caja Majica in Madrid, Spain.  Stop 1: Finland (Turun Tuomopaiva) Stop 2: Utah (The Iron Games) Stop 3: Three Rivers, Michigan (Pit Teen Throwdown)  I was invited to be a part of the broadcast for the Madrid Championships for 2023 a few months before the competition and felt

  • September 14, 2023By Brian

    Stop three on the tour takes us to Three Rivers, Michigan for the Pit Teen Throwdown.  Stop 1: Finland (Turun Tuomopaiva) Stop 2: Utah (The Iron Games) This is a competition I had been trying to get to for a couple years now and it never worked out. I’m grateful they didn’t give up on

  • September 6, 2023By Brian

    Photo Credit: Héctor Estévez The 2023 Madrid Championship starts Thursday, September 7. This year it’s a four day event for the elite divisions, which will be broadcast in English on YouTube and in Spanish on DAZN.   The rosters for the elite individual divisions were preliminary announced via the Madrid Championship Instagram, but that was

  • September 6, 2023By Brian

    Welcome to the third month of Friendly WODs. This is a running blog style article documenting (most) of the workouts I do. I will be on the road the entire month, making it challenging to find any normal rhythm to training. Thank you to those of you who follow along, the accountability here goes a

  • September 5, 2023By Brian

    Photo Credit: Nick Burns Extremely quick turn around following the trip to Finland before heading West to Utah for the Iron Games.  History of the Iron Games This is the fifth year of the Iron Games, which are located in Cedar City, Utah. While the competition is well run and fairly well known, it is

  • August 31, 2023By Brian

    Photo Credit: CrossFit LLC This is a list Brian has been keeping and updating once a year for several years. Below you will see last year’s top-40 contrasted with this year’s top-40: Main factors considered, and please note that these are weighed carefully but there is no perfect science: Top-40 Male CrossFitters, 2022 vs 2023:

  • August 31, 2023By Brian

    This is a list Brian has been keeping and updating once a year for several years. Below you will see last year’s top-40 contrasted with this year’s top-40: Main factors considered, and please note that these are weighed carefully but there is no perfect science: Top-40 Female CrossFitters, 2022 vs 2023: 2022 2023 Athlete Rank

  • August 25, 2023By Brian

    Photo Credit: Pekka Väliniemi I consider the time between the end of the CrossFit Games one year, and the start of the CrossFit Open the following year, to be the “offseason”. This year, I’m going on a bit of a world tour in an attempt to broaden my own horizons about the global competitive CrossFit scene.

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