The truth is that CrossFit became so influential that people stopped recognising its fingerprints. The industry absorbed many of its ideas and rebranded them into different products, events, and communities.

The truth is that CrossFit became so influential that people stopped recognising its fingerprints. The industry absorbed many of its ideas and rebranded them into different products, events, and communities.

Sarah achieved her biggest milestone yet, completing the mile in 6:28, improving her previous best of 6:46 by almost 20 seconds.

Training loads increase too quickly. Volume accumulates faster than the athlete can tolerate. Recovery is ignored because everyone is focused on the end goal. For a few weeks, everything looks great. The athlete feels motivated. Progress appears rapid.
Then performance stalls.

The best coaching relationships are not built on dependency.

They are built on trust, education, and shared responsibility.

Because the strongest athletes are not just physically capable.

They are capable of thinking for themselves.

Good programming matters.

But without quality feedback, most athletes eventually stop progressing.

Lately, I've had a few athletes ask me which book they should read, which reminded me to share this list.

HYROX has arguably become the largest global fitness race. ATHX is newer but interesting for different reasons. Both competitions succeed because they solve several problems that traditional functional fitness competitions sometimes struggle with.