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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.
August 24, 2023By Barclay Dale
Photo Credit: Rafael Paredes It’s been a couple of weeks since the conclusion of the 2023 NOBULL CrossFit Games. Meaning it’s as good a time as ever to look back at Games performance through the lens of performance at Semifinals. Brian presented this question back in mid-June: Is Winning Semifinals a Good Predictor for the Games?
August 12, 2023By Brian
Photo Credit: CrossFit LLC By winning the NOBULL CrossFit Games in 2023 Laura Horvath is now the 10th woman to ever win the Games (including Jeff Adler, nine men have, for those wondering). Tia-Clair Toomey is the undisputed “Fittest” woman of all time with six individual titles and two runner up finishes over eight consecutive
August 11, 2023By Brian
It’s no secret at this point that Jeff Adler was a volunteer at the CrossFit Games back in 2016, and that in the seven years since he’s ascended all the way to the top of the podium at the CrossFit Games. And if I’m being honest, as good as I knew he was becoming, I
August 10, 2023By Brian
Photo Credit: CrossFit LLC The 2023 NOBULL CrossFit Games did not have a swimming event for the first time since 2011. The omission of a movement that is expected can be considered just as “unknown and unknowable” as the inclusion of one that isn’t (or a new one). Seeing as swimming has become such a
August 9, 2023By Brian
Welcome to the second month of Friendly WODs. This is a running blog style article documenting (most) of the workouts I do. I will be on the road a lot this month, and I’m making an effort to fit fitness in despite not having a fixed daily or weekly schedule. August 30 Location: RPE (Northbrook,
August 7, 2023By Barclay Dale
Roman Khrennikov has gone all in on his professional CrossFit career. Following years of visa denials and making a name for himself in off season competitions, he came to the United States last year without his family to pursue his athletic career. He moved to Cookeville, Tennessee to train at CrossFit Mayhem after finally acquiring
August 6, 2023By Barclay Dale
For various reasons, two of the men and five of the women that finished in the top 10 at the CrossFit Games in 2022 are not competing this year. Three of those seven athletes were on the podium, meaning we are guaranteed to have new podium finishers this year. It is uncertain where these podium
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