How is CrossFit different from other fitness programs? CrossFit is known for its workouts that blend elements from weightlifting, gymnastics and cardio. The fitness company has more than 12,000 ...

Built for the Masses On a recent episode of Power Athlete Radio, Marcus Filly shared some insight into the fast-growing Hyrox movement and wh ...

What do a firefighter, a reconnaissance Marine and an Air Force staff sergeant have in common? As the co-owners of CrossFit 717 in Lemoyne, they are turning midstaters into lean, mean CrossFitting ...

Tres Heaton, a recent college graduate, steps up to the barbell stacked with numerous plates on either side. As sweat drips down her face, she concentrates on one thing: beating her previous record.

LEN NUANEZ was driving home from his post at Naval Air Station Whidbey Island one day when he saw a curious sight: people in a parking lot flipping massive tractor tires. They’d squat down, wedge ...

As a university professor teaching Principles Microeconomics, we invariably talk about production, costs, and profit maximization. And as a fitness enthusiast, I try to share with my students academic ...

It was about three years ago and a year into Paul Perna's CrossFit training that he decided to go all in. His trainer, Jud Dean, handed Perna his meal plan and Perna trained his eyes on the sheet.

A few months ago, after years of hearing many rumors about CrossFit — that it changes your life, that it's incredibly hard, that it's caused more than a few muscles to be ripped from bone — I finally ...

It was back in 1995 that former gymnast Greg Glassman founded CrossFit in Santa Cruz, California. Since then, the popularity of the fitness methodology grew from 18 gyms in 2005 to more than 1,700 in ...

Which is better at building at hard bodies: CrossFit or standard Army physical training? Most CrossFitters will swear they already know the answer, but a new $2.5 million study gearing up to launch at ...

When Andy Petranek discovered CrossFit in 2004, it was love at first sight. The high-impact interval workout gave him the results he'd thought were lost to his younger days. And then there was ...