Charity’s Case: How Witt went from Homeless to an Elite Lifter
Eight years ago, elite powerlifter and Strongwoman competitor Charity Witt was sleeping in linen closets and working 60-80 hour weeks in another country as she…
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Mallory Lawson: on Motherhood, Defeat and Staying Elite
Strip away the award ceremonies and medals. Ignore the thunderous screams and applause of the crowd, the deafening emcees and the music thumping as an…
Having Faith
By: Sherrie Shover “This year will be different for me. For the first time, I’m heading into the Open more excited than nervous. God has…
Itty Bitty Behemoth: The Smallest, Strongest Lifter You’ve Never Heard Of
At 4 feet 11 inches, Alyssa Ritchey’s intimidation factor is low. She walks out onto the platform and grips the loaded barbell, head down as…
Social Sabotage: Why You Really Aren’t Getting Better
You do it. Nearly everyone does. The biggest mistake Dawn Fletcher, owner and founder of Mentality WOD, sees on a daily basis has nothing to…
Why Shoulder Surgery is Much Worse than Open Heart Surgery
[DJ Forsyth competed at the 2012 and 2013 CrossFit South Central Regionals. The 43-year-old is the owner of CrossFit PRx in The Woodlands, TX. ]…
Master-ful: Ron Ortiz’s Best Advice for Athletes and Finding His Old Man Strength
It started with a pair of pants. Ron Ortiz, at the time in his mid-40s, had always been an athlete. But somewhere after joining the…
Persist-ENCE: On Failure, Self-Image and Learning to Rise
Last May, driving home from the California Regionals, Brooke Ence made a big mistake. Ence, who just finished sixth to come up short of…
Setting A New Standard: How Liefia Ingalls Made History
Long before she was crowned the first-ever Arnold Pro Strongwoman Champion, Liefia Ingalls was just a CrossFit athlete who wanted to do strength stuff in…
The Open is Over….Now What?
Made it through all five weeks of the 2018 CrossFit Open? Congratulations! Not sure where to go from here? You’re not alone. For the majority…
