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The 13th stop on the “B.Friendly Fitness” offseason tour is stop number two at a competition which will inherit a role in the CrossFit Games season for 2024. Kevin and Shannon Ogar will take over for the adaptive community in a big way next season as they continue to usher in the pursuit of increasing
Written by Rebecca Birch Image Credit: NWR Productions Note from Brian: While Patrick and I were busy in Dubai taking part in the Dubai Fitness Championship, we are grateful to Ms. Birch, and Nikolaj Ronnow, who were both on sight in Birmingham, UK to experience FitFest this weekend. All the content on the B.Friendly Instagram
Image Credit: Athlete’s Eye Photography If you missed our men’s picks from yesterday, make sure to check those out. We’ll follow a similar format for the women, beginning with the athletes who are contending to win, then podium, then fight for the top-ten, and finally the rest of the field. As with the men, there’s
Image Credit: Athlete’s Eye Photography The second major offseason competition of 2023 is upon us and this year’s version of the Dubai Fitness Championship features a return to the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Stadium, some classic Dubai programming with several unknown components for nearly every announced event, and a field of athletes which is certain
Image Credit: Athlete’s Eye Photography In a somewhat unique move, Dubai Fitness Championship announced a movement change to an event which they had already released. In the original announcement on October 31 of Event 3 the weightlifting movement of a ten round, MWG, workout was 15 wall balls. In their updated announcement on November 28
The “B.Friendly World Tour” stop number 12 actually allowed me to stay home. This year Taylor and Lizzie Self invited me to be part of the team responsible for putting on the third iteration of the Charlotte Classic. From testing and programming workouts, to coordinating the logistics of the schedules, and then taking on several
Photo Credit: Rafael Paredes Contributions from Rebecca Birch In terms of what we know already…. and this is all from the FitFest social media – no insider info… From the overall event side, Strength in Depth and NFG (National Fitness Games) merged and have put on a number of events already in 2023 including SiD
Photo Credit: Desert City Classic I believe this is the first stop on the tour that I had a hand in programming for the competition, or at least a much more significant hand than minor suggestions here and there which does happen on occasion in the run up to different competitions. Taylor Self, J.R. Howell,
The 2023 Rogue Invitational saw the third iteration of “The Duel” and for the first time, we saw it with just two movements. “The Duel” is an elimination style event filtering down the entire field of athletes over four rounds down to two athletes who face off for the win in one final round. The
Photo Credit: Athlete’s Eye Day two at the 2023 Rogue Invitational kicked off with “Seat At The Bar” for the individuals: a couplet of log muscle-ups and back squats. These two movements are not new to the Rogue Invitational appearing in separate events at the 2022 iteration. “Ski Bar” featured 40 total log muscle-ups sandwiching
