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November 6, 2024By Patrick Clark
Photo Credits: Athlete’s Eye By: Brian Friend and Patrick Clark The sixth installment of the Rogue Invitational is upon us and as always it’s a stacked field with most of the top men’s athletes in competitive fitness this year. It’s arguable the best field top to bottom, particularly on the men’s side, that we’ve ever
November 4, 2024By Patrick Clark
Photo Credits: Athlete’s Eye By: Brian Friend and Patrick Clark This weekend the Rogue Invitational, in its sixth year, makes its debut in Europe; Aberdeen, Scotland to be exact. The feature draw on the women’s field is the rematch everyone has been waiting for between Tia-Clair Toomey-Orr and Laura Horvath, but the field as a
May 13, 2024By Patrick Clark
We are playing catch-up for a few “Friend of the Week” announcements as we got extremely busy during the Quarterfinal stage and we also wanted to wait for the CrossFit Games Quarterfinal leaderboard to finalize. But at the end, just like we did in the CrossFit Open, we decided to go with two athletes including
April 17, 2024By Patrick Clark
This week’s “Friend of the Week” is a name well known in the CrossFit space but has been making the news lately for her fitness in other endurance sports. Kristi O’Connell is this week’s recipient for the week of April 8-14, 2024 after her amazing performance at the Zion Ultras in Apple Valley, Utah this
April 11, 2024By Patrick Clark
This week’s “Friend of the Week” is a person who didn’t compete in a competition but rather held one. Not just any competition but one that raised awareness of the benefits of fitness to an often overlooked demographic, children and adults that have special needs. Connor McGovern is the founder and organizer of the ABLE
April 3, 2024By Patrick Clark
This week we went through a bunch of candidates and decided to once again choose two talented athletes for the “Friend of the Week”, these two athletes also become the youngest recipients for this weekly honor. The future of Iceland are this week’s recipients for the week of March 28-April 1, 2024, Bjarni Leifs and
March 28, 2024By Patrick Clark
Image Credit – Athlete’s Eye Photography A light week of competition after the conclusion of the three-week CrossFit Games Open put all eyes on the Spring Beach Brawl in Pensacola, Florida. It’s at this high-level competition that we found this week’s “Friend of the Week”. Brian Huynh is this week’s recipient for the week of
March 23, 2024By Patrick Clark
For this week’s “Friend of the Week” we decided to go with two athletes considering they both accomplished something very significant in the CrossFit space, winning the CrossFit Worldwide Open. CrossFit Games veteran and European mainstay Jonne Koski and up-and-coming superstar Gracie Walton are this week’s recipients for the week of March 12-19, 2024. The
March 15, 2024By Patrick Clark
Image Credit – Eurasia Throwdown This week’s “Friend of the Week” comes from us courtesy of Brian Friend’s travel adventures. Brian found himself in Istanbul, Turkey covering the Eurasia Throwdown Final as part of his second stop in the “2024-25 B.Friendly Fitness World Tour” and found a diamond in the rough, one of the reasons
March 8, 2024By Patrick Clark
With the official start of the 2024 CrossFit Games season occurring last Thursday with the Open announcement, we decided that would be an appropriate time to unveil the B.Friendly Fitness “Friend of the Week”. The purpose of the “Friend of the Week” is to recognize athletes within the functional fitness community for their achievements not