“Helga” — named by Alicia, a former Army machine gunner recently back from down range, who completed her first Grace today. Helga is a barbell complex with the sadistic twist of a 100 meter sprint finishing each round.
Helga: 5 rounds, of reps 10, 8, 6, 4 and 2,
Deadlift, Power Clean, Front Squat, Push [...]

I found the following well expressed testimonial on the CrossFit “mainpage” comments for yesterday (comments posted in response to the Workout Of The Day; for the most part, where people post their results in doing the WOD.) We see testimonials like this every single day; this one is nicely put and I decided to [...]

Early Sunday morning we setup our gym at Starbucks. I laid out 360 square feet of rubber flooring, setup the squat rack, three barbells, about 450 pounds of Olympic bumper plates, 5 Dynamax med balls and 8 kettlebells. We took a Concept 2 rower and whiteboards.

Starbucks donated free drinks for people who won the hourly [...]

Chippers are not the most popular workouts. They consist of a long series of different exercises; Filthy Fifty is a great example — one of very few chippers in CrossFit; we rarely do them.
While Dad was inside doing a strength day (heavy squats, deadlifts and presses) Kaitlyn, Karissa, Alicia and Tash played CrossFit Jenga. [...]

Here is the same exercise as taught by CrossFit and as taught by a personal trainer who is intelligent and successful in her business. Since it is too easy to pull stupid representatives of bodybuilding or mainstream gym culture — or to caricature the worst of mainstream fitness as we often want to do — [...]