Four Morning Chalk writers — Teaganne Finn, Scotty Freymond, Nicky Freymond, and Julia Papworth — crushed the 2024 CrossFit Open and have moved on to Quarterfinals! As we have in years past, we will use ... Continue Reading
8 Tips for CrossFit Quarterfinals Success, With Advice From Alexis Raptis, Anikha Greer, and More
First, I want to say “Congratulations!!” on making it to this step in the 2024 CrossFit Games season. You are amongst the top 25 percent of the Fittest People on Earth. Whether this is your first ... Continue Reading
2024 CrossFit Individual and Age Group Quarterfinals Workout Descriptions
The 2024 CrossFit Games Quarterfinals workouts for individuals and age groups have been released. This stage of competition differs from the CrossFit Open in that athletes have to submit their ... Continue Reading
2024 CrossFit Games Team Quarterfinals Leaderboard Wrap-Up
The leaderboards are set. After four workouts, teams from each of the seven regions have punched their tickets to Semifinals. The top 30 teams from each region will move on from the Quarterfinals and have ... Continue Reading
Luminate the Day: CrossFit and Mental Health Aid Joining Forces to Build Community
In 2016, David Halvorson was a Michigan State student pursuing a finance degree when he felt directionless. Unfortunately, he had recently lost friends who had died by suicide, and he felt like he ... Continue Reading
A Look Back: The Epic, the Surprising, and the WTF Events From CrossFit Games Past
The first CrossFit Games took place on June 30-July 1, 2007 on Dave Castro’s family’s ranch in Aromas, CA. There was no qualification process, and in front of roughly 150 spectators, 70 athletes arrived ... Continue Reading
How Justin Medeiros’s Coach Adam Neiffer and CrossFit Fort Vancouver Prepare For Quarterfinals
Adam Neiffer is two-time CrossFit Games Champion, Justin Medeiros’s, coach. These facts could create a burdensome balancing act for the second stage of the 2024 Games season, but Neiffer sees it ... Continue Reading
Interview: Dr. Christina Prevett on New Study That CrossFit During Pregnancy May Result in Fewer Complications
Talk to almost any CrossFit athlete who has been pregnant. These athletes will tell you that they received at least some degree of criticism, or at the very least moderate concern, from people in ... Continue Reading
Interview: Is it Finally Anikha Greer’s Time?
Anikha Greer is tired. She is “tired of this circle” she has been living in since 2018, when she first missed qualifying for the CrossFit Games. She is tired of thinking about how she missed the ... Continue Reading
Breaking: Mat Fraser’s HWPO Training Acquires Deka Comp; Launches Affiliate Programming With Michele Letendre
HWPO Training announced today that Deka Comp Founder and Pat Vellner’s long-time coach Michele Letendre has joined the HWPO team to “spearhead the launch” of their new affiliate programming. The ... Continue Reading
Grit Haus Team Disqualified From 2024 CrossFit Season
CrossFit CLT The Grit Haus is faced with yet another early exit to their team's CrossFit season. Last year, an injury cut their 2023 CrossFit Games week short, and now they've officially been disqualified ... Continue Reading
Korey Bromery Attempts to Qualify for the U.S. Army National Best Warrior Competition and CrossFit Semifinals in the Same Week
For most Quarterfinals athletes, next week revolves around four singular tests of fitness. For Korey Bromery, however, the Quarterfinal events will be the easiest part of his week. That’s because the ... Continue Reading
New York’s “Pack Paws” Promotes Fitness for Athletes of All Ages
At the playground last summer, 6-year-old Charlotte could barely transition from one monkey bar to the next without dropping down and could never string more together than the first two. She also ... Continue Reading
The Progrm’s “The Crown” Wraps, Icelandic Teens Bjarni Leifs and Bergrós Björnsdóttir Reign
The third iteration of The Progrm’s “The Crown” occurred in Spain over Easter weekend. After four days of competition, two Icelandic athletes, Bjarni Leifs and Bergrós Björnsdóttir, headed home ... Continue Reading
From a Stroke in Utero to a Place on the CrossFit Games Podium: Amea Reyna’s Story
Amea Reyna came into the world already battling from behind — she just didn't know it. When Reyna’s mother was pregnant with her, Amea had a stroke. A perinatal stroke is quite rare, affecting between ... Continue Reading
Coming “Full Circle”: CrossFit Level 2 Seminar Headed to Garage Affiliate in South Africa
Chad Theron started CrossFit in 2007 “outside in the dirt” and soon began training clients out of his parent’s backyard garage in South Africa. That wasn’t uncommon in the pre-2010 days. Dave ... Continue Reading
A Quick Pivot: Hannah Black Talks Late Adjustment to “CrossFit Invictus Unconquerable” Roster
Hannah Black had her “breakout” performance during the 2023 North America West Semifinal, where she snatched 215 pounds, won the event, set the world record, and became one of the athletes to watch for ... Continue Reading
Interview: 2024 CrossFit Open Winner Mirjam von Rohr Sets Her Sights on Fort Worth
Mirjam von Rohr is the 2024 CrossFit Open women’s champion — seemingly out of nowhere. She is also one of the top-ranked women on the HYROX world leaderboard as of this article's publication, but ... Continue Reading
Organización de Amigos: Using Fitness to Help Oregon’s At-Risk Youth
Inspiration struck Jessica Dudley years ago when she visited Hawaii and learned all about the Keala Foundation, an organization helping at-risk Hawaiian youth through CrossFit. New to teaching, she was ... Continue Reading
Alyssa Kobela: From Ineligible in 2023 to Adaptive Open Winner in 2024
Last season, Alyssa Kobela was devastated to learn she was ineligible to compete in CrossFit’s neuromuscular division. Though she has multiple sclerosis (MS) – a central nervous system condition without ... Continue Reading
Following a Stroke, Tim Taylor Found Resilience and Community at CrossFit Convergence
Tim Taylor was a regular at the 6:30 evening CrossFit class on Thursdays at CrossFit Convergence in Tallahassee, FL. It was like any other class for him on February 23, 2023 — he hit a metcon and ... Continue Reading
Ohio Department of Youth Services Expands CrossFit Program to Three Juvenile Detention Centers
CrossFit DYS The Wolfpack isn’t your typical affiliate. It doesn’t have a website, and you won't find much information about it elsewhere. This is because the gym is located within a juvenile ... Continue Reading
4 Potential CrossFit Games Rookies Who Could Have a Big 2024 Season
At the 2023 CrossFit Semifinals, amid the excitement and celebration of Games qualification, some athletes fell just short of punching their ticket to Madison. Crestfallen and discouraged, stuck watching ... Continue Reading
“The Journey to 300,” Part 6: Coaches Need Coaches
Editor’s Note: This is the sixth part in a multiple-part series written by Athena Perez, chronicling her year-long weight loss challenge, which she now calls "The Journey to 300." Perez has documented her ... Continue Reading