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…
Category Archives: Features
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…
Why the CrossFit Open Matters
CrossFit can be intimidating. Competing in CrossFit even more so. But with Thursday set to unveil 2017’s first CrossFit Open workout, it’s important for everyone…
It’s All About the Women
Who run the world? Girls. Maybe Beyonce knew it all along. The rapid rise of strength sports like powerlifting, weightlifting and Strongman and CrossFit are all…
Becoming Brute: Cazayoux on Fear, Addiction and Finding Purpose
“The lower you fall, the higher you’ll fly.” —Fight Club It was May 2009 when Brute Strength co-founder Michael Cazayoux tried heroin for the first…
Fit After 40
There’s a new wave of high-level, inspiring CrossFit athletes, people who are ripping through heavy snatches and deadlifts and breezing through muscle-up workouts with…
Pages of Purpose (excerpt)
Women empowering women. That’s the premise of the new e-book Pages of Purpose, which features more than 20 strong women doling out advice aimed at bringing you…
How to Make Your Resolutions Actually Work
Every year millions of people rely on January 1 to start fresh. They resolve to eat better, to lose weight, to get in shape or…
Up and Cummings
Weightlifter CJ Cummings has been poked and prodded, hooked up to electrodes and high speed cameras monitoring every kind of human performance indicator one can…
