Elite Individuals
After the first ever European Rogue Invitational, Brian is heading to Serbia for the second edition of the Belgrade Games. Originally scheduled for September, the 2024 Belgrade Games was postponed two months following the passing of Lazar Dukic at the CrossFit Games this summer. Accordingly, in addition to being a big competition for the community
Photo Credits: Athlete’s Eye In six years of the Rogue Invitational there have still only been two female champions, that comes as no surprise to anyone, but the totality of what Tia-Clair Toomey-Orr and Laura Horvath have achieved over that span, and in particular this year, is somewhat mind-boggling when you actually take a moment
Photo Credit: Truth Films The sixth version of the Rogue Invitational has concluded, and with it we now have the sixth unique Rogue champion. There are still only two women to have done it: There are now four men who have managed to do it: Letting Results do the Talking All week we’ve been keeping
Photo Credits: Athlete’s Eye This is the third consecutive year the Rogue Invitational has had at least nine scored events, and exactly three of them happened on Day 2 of competition in each of those years. In each of the last two years there were four athletes who managed all single digit (ninth or better)
Photo Credits: Fury Photography In the history of the Rogue Invitational there have been only seven occurrences, out of a possible 194, in which any single athlete has had all single digit (9th or better on all events) place finishes at Rogue: It’s happened four times for the men: And three times for the women:
Photo Credits: Athlete’s Eye The first day of competition began with one long and one relatively short event: Although the time caps were different, the margins for error, for the men in particular, ended up being incredibly small, and costly for some. In event 1 for the men: This becomes especially interesting when compared with
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
This past weekend’s Oslo Throwdown was a huge success, and the B.Friendy Fitness Fall European swing continues from Bilbao, Spain this weekend with the Basque Txapelketa. When and Where The competition is set to span three days, November 1-3 and take place in two locations, the Bilbao Arena and the famous Guggenheim Museum. Athletes The
Oslo Throwdown Kick-starts 8 Weeks, in 9 Countries, 10 competitions to Close Out 2024 for B.Friendly
Over the next two months Brian and the B.Friendly team will be hitting the road for a mostly international tour covering ten competitions in nine different countries over seven consecutive weekends. The first four weeks are in Europe where he will be doing the livestream or broadcast at three of the four stops. Stop 1:
Stop two of four of the summer swing takes us to Denver, Colorado for a one day, three hours, invitation-only REPS AHEAD Pro 3 Showcase being billed as Redemption. Two community matches, one undercard, and three main cards will all take on “John” a workout Phil Thomas, Founder of REPS AHEAD, created. “John” (named after
