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…
Category Archives: Features
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 ease.…
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…
The Hardest Workout You’re Not Doing
They do it in the NFL, UFC, MLB and in college programs across the country. Still, a good chunk of the functional fitness world leaves…
The Juggernaut: Inside the World of Chad Wesley Smith
Chad Wesley Smith has no time to be sick. The elite powerlifter is just nine days out from competing in Australia, a trip filled with…
“This is 200 pounds”
Kaitlin Burgess is a Pro Strongman competitor who has lifted a 300 lb. stone to a 48 inch platform, can log press 200 lb. and…
