Meet the Oldest CrossFit Games Competitor
Clarke Holland is a dual-sport athlete, having competed at the World Weightlifting Championships and —this week— in the CrossFit Games for the sixth time. Holland…
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Changing Course: Carleen Matthews’ Wild Ride
They slowly started to trickle in that fateful night in mid-May, hesitant, anxious and unsure. There was more than a dozen, perhaps as many as…
7 Movements You Need to Do More
Most training programs have holes and we, as human beings, have imbalances that can make things even worse. While we’ve detailed the importance of carrying…
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…
Stop the Sit-Ups: How to Rethink Midline Training and Build an Enviable Core
When it comes to core training, way too much emphasis is placed on working the abdominals and and not nearly enough on the back, pelvic…
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…
Stop taking NSAIDs (And Get Out of Pain)
If doing a competition or having a heavy training day means you’re digging in to a bottle of ibuprofen, you need to seriously re-think your…
What I Wish I Knew When I Started
I wish someone had told me to eat more. When I stepped into a CrossFit gym three-and-half years ago, I wish I had known that…
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…
