ESSENTIALS

While there will always be more to learn when it comes to training pregnant athletes, this much is certain: building strength, maintaining muscle mass, and continuing to adapt to life’s demands are all important when it comes to optimizing overall health, wellness, and longevity in pregnancy and in life. CrossFit can help foster all three.

The what and the why behind the Workout of the Day (WOD).

The NOBULL CrossFit Games Semifinals bring people together. These gatherings serve as a reminder of the strength that lies within the community while playing host to an exciting competition — all in celebration of CrossFit.

Almost a year after his mother’s death, Rory Edwards bought “the top shelf of the bottom shelf of alcohol,” drank it all, and drove into a tree. He’d spent the previous year drinking and snorting cocaine on a daily basis, his girlfriend had left him, and he was struggling to get visitation rights to see his young son. Now, in jail and with a DUI on his record, he felt he’d lost it all. So Edwards called the only person he knew would answer: his CrossFit coach.

Hero workouts are CrossFit’s way of paying tribute to the fallen members of our community who made the ultimate sacrifice, and through the consecration of the values they lived by, paired with a workout bearing their name, we remember them and begin the healing process for those they left behind.

CrossFit Director of Education Dave Castro talks about the origin of Memorial Day Murph. CrossFit introduced Murph as an official Hero workout in 2005. But the phenomenon of Memorial Day Murph was born organically within the affiliate community. 

Why your two-a-day workout approach might be hurting your fitness.

Sage Burgener is a well-known Olympic weightlifting coach carrying on the legacy of her father, Mike Burgener, a coach of more than 50 years including many in the CrossFit space. While she has several lofty goals such as running a 100-mile race and building her own legacy, one goal supersedes them all.

Jessica-Rose Clark, most popularly known as "Jessy Jess," is one of the most recognized MMA fighters in the world. With the help of CrossFit, she continues to dominate the MMA industry and inspire women all over the world through passion, strength, and perseverance.

In an emotional, candid, and raw interview, Dekeyrel shares her story about living with blindness and accepting the reality of her disability, overcoming fears and defying stereotypes, and finding herself, confidence, and empowerment through CrossFit.

The clean is used to lift a load from the ground to the shoulders, where frequently the object is being readied for lifting overhead. In the clean, the hips and legs launch a weight upward from the ground to belly-button height and then the lifter drops under the weight quickly to catch it. The full movement finishes with the hips and legs working by squatting the weight and standing up to full extension.

Kelly Kelly (CF-L3) was a competitive soccer player focused on sport-specific training for much of her athletic career. Kelly, who became a well-known coach and competitive CrossFit athlete under her maiden name Kelly Clark, says her fitness lacked balance before she found CrossFit.

CrossFit helps children develop confidence and body awareness while performing movements that are natural for their bodies. As Dr. Katina Thornton explains, it will also help to keep their bodies mobile and pain-free as they enter adulthood.

The air squat is the cornerstone movement of CrossFit and represents one of the most functional ranges of motion a body can go through. To put it simply, a squat is standing from a seated position. It demands midline stabilization, posterior-chain engagement, and core-to-extremity movement, and it can be used to move your bodyweight or very large loads held in a variety of positions.

Jared Holland takes on today's workout at CrossFit East Nashville: For time: Run 800 meters, Then, 50-40-30-20-10 reps of the couplet: Wall ball, Box jump, Then, run 800 meters.

Andrew Wolfe of CrossFit Infernal offers tips on today's workout of the day: 5 rounds for time of: Row 500 meters, 15 bench presses.

CrossFit Seminar Staff trainer James Hobart demonstrates various ways to squat to a target. These options are helpful if an athlete is dealing with an ailment that prevents them from squatting to a full range of motion (crease of the hips below the top of the knees). Find an implement that allows you to squat without pain.

CrossFit 720 does today's workout of the day: Five 3-minute rounds of: 10 front squats, 10 box jumps, Row for max calories.

For life-changing results, you need the kind of coach equipped to change lives. So, what makes a coach equipped?