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  • 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.

  • 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

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