Welcome to the CrossFit Journal!
The CrossFit Journal is the largest high-quality fitness library on the net. Growing daily, the Journal contains hundreds of articles and thousands of comments that document all aspects of forging elite fitness for athletes, trainers, and even beginners of any age.
Individual articles are published online on a continual basis, instead of emailed collectively as monthly issues. Each article has a short description along with a link (or links) to download the actual article. Only subscribers can comment on the articles, but those comments are visible to everyone. Plus, the entire CrossFit Journal back catalog is now available for subscribers. That’s right, every article ever published in the Journal is now archived on this site for your discovery and study.
Where to Start?
The first three issues were seminal articles that originally defined CrossFit.
What is Fitness
The Garage Gym
Foundations
Three of Coach Glassman’s letters to trainers:
Virtuosity
Professional Training
Scaling Professional Training
Three beginner’s articles:
A Beginner’s Guide to CrossFit
A CrossFit Startup Guide 1
A CrossFit Startup Guide 2
Welcome to the Journal 3.0 is a more in-depth look at the new format.
The Retrospective takes a broad look back over six years of the CrossFit Journal.
The CrossFit category has dozens of articles on all aspects of CrossFit.
The Classic category is an informal collection of staff favorites.
Comments
One of the most compelling features of the Journal is the opportunity to discuss, debate, support, or even reject the ideas put forth in each article. In fact, the article is the starting point, not the conclusion. No article, no author, no idea is so authoritative as to be above intelligent questioning. And, part of an author’s publication in the Journal is to monitor the comments and respond when appropriate. So dig in and enrich the canon!
Other Features
Who’s Talking — The last three comments posted on any article are listed at the bottom of each page.
Monthly PDFs — All the individual article PDFs from the month are collected together for one easy download.
Categories — Browse articles by shared topics
Chronology — Browse articles by publication date
Subscriptions
Only $25 for a year of unlimited access to all Journal content, and the exclusive ability to comment on articles.
Not a Subscriber? Free Trial?
Non-subscribers have full access to the Journal site, including all comments. There are many free articles for you to download, scattered among the various categories, though the majority of article downloads require an active subscription.
The CrossFit Journal Mission Statement
The CrossFit Journal is a continual-release, advertising-free digital publication dedicated to functional fitness. It is a chronicle of the empirically driven, clinically tested, and community-developed CrossFit program. Our mission is to provide a venue for contributing coaches, trainers, athletes, and researchers to ponder, study, debate, and define fitness, and thus collectively advance the art and science of optimizing human performance.
