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I went to the CrossFit London semi-finals, Strength in Depth, to watch elite athletes compete. What struck me most was how normal it was to be muscular, both among professionals and spectators. As a ...

I find myself lying face down in a pool of my own sweat. I’m supposed to be doing handstand press-ups against a wall, but ...

Kristi Pruett had no plans to become one of the top competitors in the CrossFit masters division in the nation when she began working out at CrossFit Sentry in Centralia a decade ago. Now, she's in a ...

When Danielle Brandon's school friends asked about her family, she would lie and say her mom was dead. Until her late 20s, Brandon, who was born in a small city in Idaho, kept the details of her ...

Annie Thorisdottir has won the CrossFit Games twice, earning the title 'Fittest Woman on Earth.' When she gave birth to her daughter in 2020, she didn't expect to experience postpartum depression.

Few fitness trends have experienced as meteoritic a rise in as short a period of time as has CrossFit. First entering the scene when it was founded by Greg Glassman and Lauren Janai in 2000 in ...

CrossFit athlete Katrin Davidsdottir has trained in both the US and Iceland, where she grew up. Davidsdottir told Insider she found fitness culture for women to be very different in both countries. In ...

Two Kansas City-area women will test their mettle at the 2023 CrossFit Games from Aug. 1-6 in Madison, Wisconsin. Carrie Rieger is competing in the age 45-49 division, while Olivia Kerstetter is a ...