At 13, Anna Tunnicliffe decided she wanted to win an Olympic medal in sailing. And she did, taking gold in the Laser Radial class at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. “(It’s) the most amazing feeling in the world,” she say...
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Alongside CrossFit Media’s Carey Peterson, two-time Olympian Chad Vaughn dissects his 315-lb. clean and jerk via slow-motion footage. “Really the same for the snatch,” he says of his set-up. “I’ve just lock...
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“Time to try some new food,” Lanette Doran tells three young children who are surrounding a large bowl of vegetables on a kitchen counter. She’s taught children for many years how to eat well through healthy cooking. N...
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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. ̶...
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Pull it higher or pull yourself under? Bob Takano explains how to get under heavy bars fast. There are two components involved in getting a bar overhead or up to the shoulders from the ground. The most commonly conceptualized componen...
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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 ...
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As they ride to the gym before the announcement of Workout 13.4, Chris Spealler tells Director of the Games Dave Castro, Rory Mckernan and Graham Holmberg that he got no-repped on his fourth rep in 13.3, which began with 150 wall-ball sh...
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Krista Guloien is an Olympic rower who brought home a silver medal for Canada last year. She’s also now a CrossFit athlete. “Working with and for other people was the key to me doing as much as I did or going as hard as I di...
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Kids and Kale? Believe it, says Lanette Doran, who gets her three young helpers to assist her as she prepares this simple dish. First the kale leaves are stripped from the stems before they are rolled into balls to make chopping easy. T...
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Countless hours went into producing the unveiling events for each of the five workouts of the CrossFit Games Open. In Part 1 of this series, take a look at everything that happened before Director of the Games Dave Castro finally broke t...
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