CrossFit's cult-like following can feel a little, um, weird sometimes. It's strange for people to be so in love with something that most people avoid at all costs -- exercise. Especially intense, ...

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 ...

Over the last decade, CrossFit has grown into one of the hottest fitness trends in the world, with over 14,000 CrossFit gyms – known as ‘boxes’ – springing up across the globe. Its many passionate ...

Katrina Carter, DPT, FNS, is a licensed travel physical therapist. She specializes in orthopedics and has a passion for providing education on nutrition for healing and overall health and wellness.

Outside, it’s a few degrees south of zero. But inside this CrossFit gym in Grand Forks, N.D., a half-dozen fitness nuts–three men, three women–are just warming up. Tom Harmon, a former Army reservist ...

Last night saw the 2025 CrossFit season kick off with its first round, the CrossFit Open. Available to all competitors worldwide, this stage lasts three weeks and involves three workouts, starting ...

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In recent years, the fitness community has found itself split into two camps: committed CrossFit loyalists and newly converted Hyrox fans (with the ultrarunners observing from afar, shaking their ...