The CrossFit Life

Lauren Lesinski’s weight-loss story was one of the CrossFit Journal’s most recommended stories in 2011. We caught up with Lesinksi to find out how she’s doing one a year later.

In December 2011, I wrote the Crossfit Journal article Breaking the Cycle about Lauren Lesinski’s 75-lb. weight loss. Inspired by Lesinski’s story and the accompany photo of her in a bikini, more than 850 people recommended the article on Facebook.

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Jenna Johnson doesn’t have a CrossFit box near her home in Racine, Wisc., so she set up a gym next to the loading dock at work. Her co-workers think she’s crazy, but she’s never felt better. Hilary Achauer reports.

Jenna Johnson works for a company with more than 500 employees, but pretty much everyone knows who she is. That’s because every day at lunchtime, 26-year-old Johnson goes outside to a space next to… Continue Reading

Hilary Achauer was tired of headbands that came off in the middle of a WOD, so she went in search of the perfect headband for CrossFit.

I was in the middle of a surprisingly brutal 20-minute AMRAP of 4 thrusters, 8 toes-to-bars, 12 pistols and 16 double-unders. In the third round, right in the middle of the thrusters, I felt my headband slip back on my head.

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Veteran Level 1 Seminar flowmasters Chuck Carswell and Adrian Bozman talk about their strategies for surviving life on the road.

Chuck Carswell is a master of efficiency. As a veteran Level 1 Seminar flowmaster, Carswell spends almost every weekend of the year traveling around the world and teaching people how to move well.

When he goes to the airport, he parks in the same spot each time. He walks through the same security gate each… Continue Reading

Molly Godby may work out alone, but in the middle of the WOD she feels the presence of other garage CrossFitters who urge her to keep going.

Tick-tock. It’s just the clock and me. No one else dropping weights. No coach yelling at me to pick up that bar, to explode from the hips. Only me, my music, my sweat, my thoughts … and that ticking clock, mocking me as I… Continue Reading

Master Sgt. Eric Johnson believes true intensity and focus can make the difference between good and great.

At the age of 41, I have spent 22 years as a United States Marine, and I’ve been an avid weightlifter, American Mountain Guides Association rock-climbing instructor, ski instructor and martial-arts instructor. I’ve always thought of myself as being in pretty good shape. I can run three miles in under 21… Continue Reading

Dylan Rivera struggled with a painful nervous-system disorder for most of his childhood, missing out on the physical challenge of sports. Then he found CrossFit and rediscovered the joy of athletics.

Dylan Rivera was always an active child. He played soccer and baseball and spent much of his childhood outside kicking around a soccer ball. One day that all changed.

“When I hit fifth grade, my health turned… Continue Reading

Matt Lodin started doing CrossFit just out of college at a 24-Hour Fitness. He focused on power cleans and other “explosive stuff” he learned about as a collegiate lacrosse player.

“I got kicked out for being too loud and having chalk,” Lodin says.

So he joined CrossFit East County in El Cajon, Calif., making the 25-minute drive from San Diego. Shortly thereafter, CrossFit Pacific Beach opened across from his neighborhood grocery… Continue Reading