On the practice platform, the world’s greatest weightlifter is snatching 220 kg, and clean and jerking 255 kg with ease. Giorgi Tchintcharauli, the doctor of the Georgian national weightlifting team, has posted video of Lasha Talakhadze’s practice sessions at the Tokyo

They have sport climbing and boxing so why not? Let’s be honest, CrossFit and MMA are more popular than sport climbing and boxing these days. So, why are we looking at the latter at the Olympics in Tokyo and not

BMI can give a false impression of the nature of health. There are more important metrics. A study that came out this year in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition on the relation of body fat mass and fat-free mass

Strongman Cheick “Iron Biby” Sanou breaks Eddie Hall’s world record with a 477.4 lb (217 kg axle press. Iron Biby, the Burkino Faso-born strongman born Cheick Sanou, has broken the world record for the axle press held by World’s Strongest

I didn’t grow up as an athlete. I was a shy, clumsy kid who preferred books to sports. I didn’t do my first push-up until I was twenty-one, and it wasn’t until much later that “athlete” became a core part

Greg Glassman is doing publicity, ostensibly for an upcoming book, but it sounds a lot like he has some scores to settle. A new article in the New Yorker, Does CrossFit Have a Future, sounds like a comeback tour of