In Athletes, CrossFit, CrossFit Games, HD Videos, Medical/Injuries
May 14, 2013
As a child, Annie Thorisdottir took ballet. It didn’t stick for long, though. Like her cousins, she wanted to try gymnastics. She made it to Iceland’s national team but quit to focus on high-school studies.
“Going from training 24 hours a week into training not at all didn’t really work out for me,” the 23-year-old two-time CrossFit Games champion says with her quintessential smile.
So she started ballet again, and dance. That, too… Continue Reading
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In CrossFit, HD Videos, Medical/Injuries
May 11, 2013
Kim O’Reilly’s body is 53, but her kidney and pancreas are much younger. They belonged to her son, who donated them to her.
Her failing organs were a result of Type 1 diabetes, with which she was diagnosed at the age of 5. She reluctantly agreed to the kidney transplant in 2001, a couple of years after her daughter died following a similar procedure. Her son was 18 at the time.
“We both woke up from the OR with a… Continue Reading
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In Athletes, CrossFit, CrossFit Games, Radio
May 09, 2013
On Episode 275 of CrossFit Radio, host Justin Judkins interviewed Chris Dozois, who won the CrossFit Games Open in the South West. Also on the show was Rainier CrossFit owner and HQ Seminar Staff member Kurtis Bowler. This episode was webcast live at 6 p.m. PDT on Wednesday, May 8, 2013.
3:41 Chris Dozois finished at the top of the Open leaderboard in the South West, placing ahead of Games competitors Chris… Continue Reading
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In Affiliation, CrossFit, HD Videos
May 02, 2013
For Daryl Roberts, CrossFit has been about improved health and relationships, so when he traveled in 2008 to Liberia and saw malnourished orphans sick with malaria and infested with worms, he knew what could help make them better.
“I love CrossFit so much and I saw how it improved my health,” explains Roberts, who trains at CrossFit Adrenaline in Cartersville, Ga. “I wanted our kids to experience that.”
Roberts started Orphan Aid Liberia… Continue Reading
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In Affiliation, Coaching, CrossFit, HD Videos
April 30, 2013
At CrossFit Delaware Valley in Broomall, Pa., owner Rob Miller believes in a creative warm-up.
Bear-crawl musical chairs, for example, is among his choices.
“Now when I stop the music, you have to put your butt on top of one of these med-balls and claim it as your own,” he explains to the class.
The first person who cannot get his or her butt to an open ball does 16 burpees, the next does 14 burpees, then… Continue Reading
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“It was horribly hard (when) I realized I’ve been a widow longer than I’ve been a wife,” says Ann Schmalstieg, an artist and a coach at Oceanside CrossFit.
Her husband, Marine Staff Sgt. Justin Schmalstieg, was killed Dec. 15, 2010, while serving in Afghanistan. The 28-year-old bomb-disposal technician had previously served three tours of duty in Iraq. On Dec. 15 in Helmand province, he was clearing a path… Continue Reading
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When former track-and-field star Marion Jones-Thompson stepped into CrossFit Texas, the coaches were perplexed: how do you coach such an accomplished athlete?
The answer was simple: treat her just like everyone else.
“I don’t expect when I sign up for there to be, like, balloons and all of that,” Jones-Thompson says with a laugh. “I’m an athlete. I wanted to work out.”
Also a former basketball player for the Tulsa Shock of the… Continue Reading
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In 2010 on the streets of East Oakland, Calif., a gang member shot Fremont police officer Todd Young in the pelvis. He suffered injuries so severe that doctors thought he would die.
Young woke up after 19 days in a coma. The shot to his iliac artery had also taken out 40 percent of his bladder and left holes in his intestines. He found himself with a colostomy bag, a catheter and tubes in his stomach, which… Continue Reading
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