Almost ten years on from the first CrossFit Games, it’s safe to say that we’re getting past the point where claims like ‘CrossFit isn’t safe’ and ‘You’ll get injured if you do CrossFit’ can be pretty easily brushed off. If you’re silly and irresponsible, if you let your ego take charge of what you’re doing […]

Three weeks to go and the 2017 CrossFit Games season will officially start. First Open workout will be released on February 23rd. Ready?Una foto publicada por The CrossFit Games (@crossfitgames) el 19 de Ene de 2017 a la(s) 5:12 PST CrossFit Open is an annual online competition which gathers thousands of crossfitters from all over […]

As any other sport, crossfit has been tagged with labels such as too dangerous, a cult of obsessed people, rhabdo friendly and so on.Coming from the sport of alpine skiing, I find crossfit ridiculously safe. On the other hand, people who have never done sports before, can encounter several obstacles such as feeling uncomfortable, unsafe […]

Most people associate crossfit with brutal and gruelling workouts, too hard or not appropriate for ordinary humans. What they see and know are the “Greek-gods-like” CrossFit Games athletes, and the YouTube videos of them performing movements only a minority of people can tackle on. The extreme always creates the strongest impression; the CrossFit Games are the […]