Rusty Malinoski has been a professional wakeboarder for more than 12 years, and while many in the sport have retired by his age, Malinoski, 32, said his CrossFit training has put him at the top of his game. Wakeboarders often blow out their knees or suffer other injuries because of the high-impact nature of the […]

On the night of Sunday, Nov. 13, a fire broke out just a few blocks from CrossFit Westmount in a three-floor commercial structure that housed two restaurants and the 1,000-member Victoria Park Health Club (called Vic Park). The four-alarm fire brought more than 100 firefighters to the scene in Westmount, a suburb of Montreal, Canada. […]

Lucie Hobart is 56 years old and says she has no idea what age means anymore. “I started CrossFit when I was 52,” she says, “but here I am … four years later, so I’m 56, and I know I am the healthiest today that I have ever been in my entire life, which really […]

The individual PDF articles published in November 2016 are collected here in a single download. The video and audio posts are not contained in the PDF. The articles included here are: “CrossFit Lifeguard: Brandon Justice” - Cecil “Down the Hatch, Miss a Snatch?” - Achauer “Why Some Sweat More” - Achauer “Chronic Disease and Medicine: […]

A recent paper in the Journal of Bone and Mineral Research found that increased bone mineral content (BMC) and bone mineral density (BMD) in childhood are positively associated with time spent doing high-impact physical activities (PA), even for those with a genetic risk of low bone mass in adulthood (1). A concern over BMC and […]

Thirty days after a stem-cell transplant, Timmon Lund joined CrossFit St. Paul. “I wanted to get healthy again.” Nine months earlier, at 33, Lund had been diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma. The cancer limits the body’s ability to fight infection as it progresses. Chemotherapy and radiation are common treatments; stem-cell transplants are not. CrossFit, he said, […]

Brian Riley was exposed to CrossFit while serving as a Marine, but an injury overseas forced him to relearn everything. Now he’s putting his experiences as an adaptive athlete to good use at CrossFit Del Mar in San Diego, California. Riley was stationed in Afghanistan when he took a medium-machine-gun round to the lower left […]

Welcome to weird. That’s how Santa Cruz, California, is known. For more than a decade, the sleepy Northern California beach town of 63,000 has used the same branding campaign to encompass its idiosyncrasies: “Keep Santa Cruz Weird.” The city is a mere 30 miles south of Silicon Valley, home to the likes of Apple, eBay, […]

If you determine the size of the field before programming the events, you might be putting the collars on before the plates. “I’ve got 100 athletes, 10 solid judges, 5,000 square feet and nine hours to run as many events as I can.” How many organizers have said something like that when planning a fitness […]

Why your doctor only wants to see you after something has gone wrong. Dr. Stephen Schimpff calls it the paradox of American medicine. “We have really well-trained, well-educated providers. We are the world’s envy for biomedical research. We’ve got excellent pharmaceutical (and) biotechnology companies and diagnostics (tools). But the paradox is on the other hand […]