ESSENTIALS

CrossFit defines fitness as the ability to perform a wide range of tasks across various movements and durations, and health as the sustained capacity to do so throughout one's life. Health exists on a continuum from sickness to fitness, with optimal health providing a buffer against disease. Tracking both performance and health markers, such as blood sugar levels, lipid profiles, and physical performance metrics, is crucial for understanding and improving overall well-being. By consistently adopting healthy behaviors, you can move further along the continuum toward peak fitness, enhancing long-term vitality and resilience against disease and decrepitude.

This Veterans Day, we’re asking the CrossFit community to join us, Rogue Fitness, GORUCK, and The Step Up Foundation in support of this important cause. Take on the challenge of CHAD1000X to support efforts to bring awareness to the causes and prevention of veteran suicide.

Summer is here which often means a break from routine — it doesn't have to mean a break from fitness. Don't forget to toss your jump rope in your suitcase and pick your favorites from these no-equipment or limited-equipment workouts. You can knock these out on the beach, in your hotel room, or out in the open where you can get some fresh air and use your incredible fitness to inspire fellow vacationers during your trip!

Here is everything you need to know to open a CrossFit affiliate for police officers, firefighters, and military service members.

Everyone who does CrossFit is unique. We may all lift different weights, run different distances, or substitute various movements, but this individualized approach is the essence of CrossFit's adaptability and inclusivity, making it a fitness program that can be tailored to your specific needs and goals.

A Hero workout is not just a test of fitness; it is a trial of mental fortitude. When a typical CrossFit athlete is briefed on a Workout of the Day, they look at the Rx’d option and decide whether it’s suitable to their ability. However, with a Hero workout, there’s more on the line than just a couple letters next to your score on the whiteboard. Committing to the most difficult level of the workout, that is still appropriate to your physical and mental capacity, is a promise to the fallen to try to experience a tiny speck of the pain and effort they endured. We recently added six new Hero workouts: Buriak, ODA 7313, Goose, Pikey, Gale Force, and Northrup. 

With CrossFit and her determination, King found an accepting community at Pembrokeshire, improved her confidence, strength, and body control, and has been able to live an independent life, watching her kids grow up. “The reason I keep coming back to CrossFit is because I'm getting stronger each day, which enables me to hold my body up much easier, carry out daily tasks much easier, carry the shopping on my own, carry my cup of coffee without spilling it.” King, a neuromuscular adaptive athlete, has big plans for the 2024 competitive season — make it to the CrossFit Games.

“Today we're working on rope-climb efficiency that goes beyond the basics of the best way to wrap your feet.” Get your legs to do the bulk of the work and save your grip with a new way to rope climb. Laurie Galassi, CF-L3 and co-owner of CrossFit Santa Cruz, demonstrates this helpful and efficient technique.

Dr. Sean Rockett, an orthopedic surgeon, shares causes and considerations when it comes to back pain, and points out some things to be aware of to give yourself the best chance of avoiding chronic back pain throughout life. The good news — avoiding and treating back pain involves staying active and focusing on strength and stability, all of which can be achieved in a CrossFit gym.

If you’re new to or curious about CrossFit, you might be wondering how often you should work out. Here's what to take into account.

At 15 years old, Taylor Heim was the fittest she had ever been. By her 20's, she was fighting to take back control of her life after facing domestic abuse. But the community at Tarheel CrossFit helped lift Heim back up just when she felt she was at her lowest.

Faced with aggressive Stage 2 oropharyngeal cancer, Steven Smith steeled himself for treatment with CrossFit.

In February 2024, CrossFit affiliate owners, coaches, and healthcare professionals came together for the CrossFit for Health Summit, presented by GORUCK. These are just a few of their stories.

A CrossFit affiliate owner aims to educate himself at the CrossFit for Health Summit to better serve his community.

Fifty-nine-year-old CrossFit trainer Theresa Sbarra helps seniors defy decrepitude.

Chris Spallina nearly died from opioid overdose — multiple times. At the CrossFit for Health Summit, he shared how CrossFit and The Phoenix sober community saved his life.

The Travis Manion Foundation was established in 2008 and was originally intended as a “labor of love.” But what started as a small local nonprofit helping veterans in the Philadelphia area soon blossomed into a resource for tens of thousands of veterans.

Your brain is just like your biceps, says Dr. Tommy Wood. It needs proper nutrition and rest to function — but it also needs to do work.

How The Phoenix partners with CrossFit gyms to transform the lives of people struggling with addiction, mental illness, social isolation, and more.