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Some clients prefer polished brass pull-up bars, while others like a little rust on the barbell.

Nearly 5,000 miles and an ocean apart, two classes of CrossFit athletes are doing work.

Their lungs are searing, but all that matters is the last few reps—and getting them in before the minute turns over.

As the last barbell settles at CrossFit Fifty, an open-air garage gym in Honolulu, Hawaii, the athletes lie on the sun-stricken… Continue Reading

Pat Sherwood puts the lie to suspicions about all the evil people in other countries.

While making our way from Big Sky, Mont., to Nogales, Ariz., Ian Wittenber and I stopped for fuel at a gas station in Jackson Hole, Wyo. An old dude and his weather-beaten female companion eyeballed us from another pump.

“Where are you two heading?” the gentleman asked.

“We are riding to Chile, but our immediate goal is to get into… Continue Reading

One hundred days, 16 countries, 12,000 miles—by motorcycle.

In this first installment of Pat Sherwood and Ian Wittenber’s trip from Santa Cruz, Calif., to Santiago, Chile, things go wrong before the adventure has even begun.

With 100 miles on his new bike, Sherwood is hit while riding on the highway near Santa Cruz. After a police report and visit to the doctor, though, he’s good to go.

The duo begins its ride through the Americas by… Continue Reading

On Episode 291 of CrossFit Radio, host Justin Judkins interviewed CrossFit success story Justin Hopman and CrossFit Games competitor Dan Bailey. This episode was webcast on Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2013.

2:53 Justin Hopman told how he found CrossFit after receiving a pacemaker at only 38 to treat a third-degree atrioventricular block. He explained what his life was like before the pacemaker and CrossFit, as well as how it turned… Continue Reading

On Episode 290 of CrossFit Radio, host Justin Judkins interviewed three people who attended the CrossFit Tour stop and Affiliate Gathering in Big Sky, Mont., from Aug. 16 to 18. Jonathan Gonzales and Maria Aragon De Gonzales of Arbor CrossFit are featured in the first half of the show, and CrossFit Games Masters champion Craig Howard is featured in the second.

1:36 Jonathan Gonzales and Maria Aragon De Gonzales held the grand… Continue Reading

On Episode 289 of CrossFit Radio, host Justin Judkins interviewed CrossFit HQ’s Paula Gravatt and Pat Sherwood. This episode was webcast Aug. 14, 2013.

2:11 Paula Gravatt, who is on the CrossFit Affiliate Support and CrossFit Tour teams, has been working feverishly for the past several months to organize and coordinate the 2013 CrossFit Tour and Affiliate Gathering in Big Sky, Mont. She came on the show to talk… Continue Reading

At the recent CrossFit Tour stop in Big Sky, Mont., Dr. Nicholas Romanov worked to improve Dan Bailey’s running and his snatches to illustrate how unweighting can be applied to all movements.

Bailey, who finished sixth at this year’s CrossFit Games, is a former college sprinter whose best 400-meter time was 47 seconds.

In this video, the Pose Method creator watches Bailey run and offers advice: less effort. Romanov demonstrates his point by having… Continue Reading

At the recent CrossFit Tour stop in Big Sky, Mont., Dr. Nicholas Romanov worked with Bret Ellis to improve his running form. In Part 3, the Pose Method creator teaches the owner and head trainer at CrossFit Rabid in Rainbow City, Ala., about cadence.

Unfortunately, Ellis is having a hard time, and his effort his visible.

“You’re still trying to look a certain position ’cause you haven’t quite felt it yet,”… Continue Reading

At the recent CrossFit Tour stop in Big Sky, Mont., Olympic-weightlifting coach Mike Burgener hosted a clinic and of course handed out some burpees.

In this clip, he helps Olivia Swant of CrossFit Billings with her overhead squat. To start, she does an overhead squat with a PVC pipe.

“Oh, God,” Burgener says.

First, he checks her stance, grip and position. Then he finds the limits of her range of motion. After that, Burgener… Continue Reading

At the recent CrossFit Tour stop in Big Sky, Mont., Dr. Nicholas Romanov worked with Bret Ellis to improve his running form. In Part 2, the creator of the Pose Method teaches Ellis, owner and head trainer at CrossFit Rabid in Rainbow City, Ala., about “unweighting.”

“It’s a change of support. It’s a small pose,” Romanov explains.

The movement shouldn’t require any effort. Romanov notes that the arms aren’t involved. It’s about taking pressure off… Continue Reading

On Episode 242 of CrossFit Radio, host Justin Judkins interviewed 2012 Reebok CrossFit Games fifth-place finisher Valerie Voboril, as well as CrossFit Inferno owner Bill Grundler. This episode was webcast live at 6 p.m. PDT on Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2012.

The Words of Wisdom are from an article titled Revisiting Hand Care, found on CrossFit Dallas Central’s site. The author gives advice on caring for ripped hands… Continue Reading

When Pose Method creator Dr. Nicholas Romanov meets Bret Ellis, he notes his muscles.

“Your fitness level is intimidating,” Romanov says, “but, unfortunately, your running, it sucks.”

At the recent CrossFit Tour stop in Big Sky, Mont., the expert works with Ellis, owner and head trainer at CrossFit Rabid in Rainbow City, Ala., to improve his running form.

Ellis explains that all he’s trying to do is just move forward. Romanov… Continue Reading

It seems Dan Bailey and Rich Froning might be reluctant to do a workout, perhaps for the first time ever.

“Rich is trying to quit the workout,” Games Director Dave Castro says with a laugh while standing outside during the CrossFit Tour event in Big Sky, Mont.

So he yells up to Froning’s hotel room.

“Rich, come down,” says Castro, still laughing. “Don’t be afraid.”

Froning’s response: “You can’t make us.”

The challenge—pulled from a hat—is 8… Continue Reading

The individual PDF articles published in August 2012 are collected here in a single download.

The video and audio articles are not contained in the PDF.

The articles included here are:

More Than the Street - Wolf/Knight/Liberati
Never Stop, Never Doubt - Achauer
Into the Light - Rhodes
Citrus Skewers - Brown/Dazet
The New America - Achauer
Rediscovering Fitness - Borbas
Losing Control, Winning a Medal - Cecil
If It Doesn’t Say CrossFit, It’s ... - Saran
CrossFit Teens: The Healthiest in the… Continue Reading

From Aug. 10 to 12, CrossFitters assembled to relax, work out and hear Coach Greg Glassman speak in Montana’s natural playground.

For the second year in a row, CrossFitters gathered in Big Sky, Mont., to kick back, meet new friends, spend time with old ones, and just generally hang out and do what we do naturally—with a heavy emphasis on nature.

Previously, the CrossFit Tour touched down in Australia in February, Texas in… Continue Reading

At the 2011 Affiliate Gathering in Big Sky, Mont., HQ Director of Training Dave Castro sat down with Sevan Matossian to find out more about the CrossFit HQ filmmaker.

Castro asked Matossian how he gets his subjects to leave their comfort zone.

“I make people feel comfortable. That allows me to ask uncomfortable questions,” Matossian said. “I thrive on sort of questions that I’m uncomfortable asking.”

Matossian described how he is one of CrossFit’s biggest fans.

“I love… Continue Reading

CrossFit Gymnastics coach Jeff Tucker shared his expertise at the 2011 Summer Affiliate Gathering in Big Sky, Mont. In this video, he takes athlete Hayley Parlen through a muscle-up progression.

After watching an attempt, he starts Parlen in a progression using low rings. She kneels underneath the rings to use her legs for as much support as is necessary to scale the movement.

Instead of jumping through the muscle-up, Tucker says he wants… Continue Reading

CrossFit Gymnastics coach Jeff Tucker shared his expertise at the 2011 Summer Affiliate Gathering in Big Sky, Mont. In this video, he instructs an athlete on the kipping muscle-up to help refine her movement.

“What I look at as a coach are angles. If you’re creating angles and popping the hip in the movement, I’m wondering if we have a strength issue here,” he says.

Tucker has the athlete use her swing on… Continue Reading

At the 2011 Summer Affiliate Gathering in Big Sky, Mont., Olympic-lifting expert Mike Burgener shares his coaching insight into the set-up and take-off positions.

Proper set-up is crucial.

“The problem is most people with the high hips are pulled forward off the ground,” he says.

The proper set-up is hips above knees, shoulders ahead of the bar, weight distributed on the balls of the feet with feet flat on the ground and knees… Continue Reading

At the 2011 Summer Affiliate Gathering recently held in Big Sky, Mont., CrossFit Gymnastics coach Jeff Tucker instructs an athlete on the technique of the kipping pull-up.

Tucker addresses whether the kipping pull-up is driven by the hips or the upper body. The gymnastics expert says it’s smoother when the upper body is the prime mover.

“When you throw your lower body into it, you gotta have a shitload of muscle to control that… Continue Reading