Athletes

Travis Bagent is one of the greatest armwrestlers in the world. He and John Brzenk will be at the CrossFit Games armwrestling any and all takers. These four videos document Travis’s first attempt at a CrossFit workout.

Sevan Matossian wrote this about these videos:
A series of videos that shows a 6' foot 3", 275lb man (pro athlete) try a simple workout and struggle on all fronts. He wants to… Continue Reading

This video is a profile of Shane Hamman, told in his own words and actions. Shane holds all the U.S. weightlifting records in the 105 kilogram plus category and holds the world record for the squat: 1,008 pounds.

Shane recalls writing on a piece of paper at age seven that he wanted to go to the Olympics. The dream came true. Shane was on the U.S. Olympic weightlifting team in 2000 and 2004. But Shane… Continue Reading

Chastity Slone trains at Practice CrossFit with Josh Bunch. She is a professional Figure competitor who started by incorporating CrossFit into her figure training this year, and is now training exclusively CrossFit.

Chastity has been in several videos, planning her diet, competing against some top Games competitors, and training the clean.

In this video by Again Faster, Chastity talks about her training, and the Arnold competition. She… Continue Reading

At 3:45 p.m. on Friday, January 2, 2009, Greg Amundson left CrossFit Camp Pendleton running a 12min mile pace. He was attempting to run 100 miles in 24 hours. To make matters more interesting, his training was just the CrossFit main site workouts, and his diet was pure Zone before, during, and after the run.

Now CrossFit never claims that the main site workouts are designed to prepare you to… Continue Reading

Lauren Plumey hails from CrossFit Milford where she trains with Jocelyn Secondi and Jason Leydon.

Lauren followed her trainer from a globo gym that closed to CrossFit Milford, and went from athletic to being an athlete. She doesn’t like to scale to so-called “female weights.”

Her goals are on the gym whiteboard: getting her CrossFit Total into the 600s, improving her Fran time, and working on handstand push ups and thrusters… Continue Reading

Jenni Orr is a presenter and head trainer for the traveling HQ seminar team for Level 1 and Level 2 certifications. She’s also an amazing athlete, finishing 8th overall in the 2008 CrossFit Games. She was a dancer in college, and a cheerleader for the Miami Dolphins.

Jenni is gearing up for the Dirty South Regional Qualifiers, where the competition is going to be very fierce.

In Part 1, the … Continue Reading

This is the 58th episode of CrossFit Radio, which aired at 6pm PDT on Friday, April 17th, 2009.

As the winner of last year's CrossFit Games, Jason Khalipa, is known as the Fittest Man on Earth. Jason also owns CrossFit Santa Clara. Jason talked about what he has been doing the past year, how he has been growing his business, planning for his upcoming wedding, and prepping for this year’s Games.

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This is the 56th episode of CrossFit Radio, which aired at 6pm on Monday, April 13th, 2009.

Jenni Orr is a Level 2 Trainer and is on the training staff for HQ. She trains at BGI Fitness in Florida. She spoke about her background in dancing and as a cheerleader for the Miami Dolphins. She explained how that helped her by giving her a foundation of strength and fitness. She talked about the… Continue Reading