Brittney Saline

I’ve always been more quit than grit. When I played soccer as a kid, all it took was a 10-meter sprint to send me to the sideline, begging to be subbed out. My coach prescribed a daily jogging routine. I ran until I knew I was out of view of the…

Trygve Nilsen of CrossFit Oslo | Photo by Adam Bow It should come as no surprise that a team from CrossFit Oslo drew some of the biggest cheers during Friday morning’s first test, Olympic Total. But it may not be the team you are thinking of.…

“Athletes,” the announcer’s voice echoed over North Park at the 2023 NOBULL CrossFit Games. “One minute.” The line of masters men and women, 55-59, braced themselves for Pulling Power, preparing to run to their ropes at the sound of the buzzer.…

Open for Business At 9 a.m., the 2023 NOBULL CrossFit Games were officially underway. The sun was out, the fans were on, and the turf was glistening. Ten men and 10 women in the 65+ divisions stood on their black lifting platforms, cinching their…

I stared through the window at the looming landscape as the bus meandered through Lower Chautauqua, Flagstaff Mountain rising in the background. The CrossFit HQ team was in Boulder, Colorado, for an all-company retreat, and the bus had taken us — the…

“Set up three bars and storm through for time. Post time to comments.” Those were the notes accompanying the workout the first time Linda was published to CrossFit.com. Linda is: 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 reps of the triplet: Deadlift: 1.5 x…

A Battle for First — PRVN vs. Mayhem Independence Team Test 1 | By: Melisa Pendergrass The first athletes to take the floor at the North America East Semifinal were the teams, and all eyes were on newly-formed super team CrossFit East Nashville PRVN…

The Sheep on the Roof When fans arrived at the Max-Schmeling-Halle arena each morning to watch the fittest in Europe battle for a ticket to the Games, they were met with grazing sheep looking down upon them before entering one of Berlin’s largest…

2023 was supposed to be Roman Khrennikov’s year. And it was looking good. Donning the leader’s jersey for three days in a row at the 2023 NOBULL CrossFit Games, Khrennikov could almost taste the championship title. He had won two tests and had seven…

We’ve all wondered at one time or another: Would I survive a zombie apocalypse? As Hollywood teaches us, you’d probably need to run very fast. Maybe scamper over a wall or scramble through some rubble. You’d have to carry your gear through all that,…

Records and Repeats 14 gold medals (plus three silver and one bronze). 19 CrossFit Games appearances. 72 CrossFit Games event wins. That’s a fuck ton of fitness to fit on three podium spots — but those are the accolades gathered over the past decade…

Caine Hayes never got hungover. Which was quite impressive, seeing as he usually put away 20 beers on an average Tuesday night. More on the weekend. His memory didn’t fare quite as well, though the then-early 30-something didn’t mind the chunks of…

A would-be disastrous no rep almost cost O’Brien the win — her left fingertips grazed the yellow line as she started the final handstand walk — but Speegle took a break at the 7-and-a-half-yard mark, allowing O’Brien to recoup lost time and take the…

Only 3 rounds stood between James Sprague and his individual CrossFit Games debut. Eight ring muscle-ups, 6 deficit handstand push-ups, 4 sandbag-to-shoulders, 2 snatches, three times over. Sprague had been to the Games as a teenager twice before,…

Mal O’Brien was unfazed. The 2021 seventh-place Games finisher and protégé to Mat Fraser pulled ahead in the first handstand walk, Dani Speegle nipping at her — wrists? — a couple paces behind. A would-be disastrous no rep almost cost O’Brien the win…

By Brittney Saline (writer) and Lilly Fuentes (videographer) In middle school, the mean girls made me quit the soccer team. It’s not that I was bad — in fact, their ostracization drove me to new levels of aggression, which in turn made me one of the…

One in three girls between the ages of 6 and 12 plays a sport. But by 14, girls are dropping out at twice the rate of boys. Why? All these studies point to one thing — a socially conditioned lack of confidence unrelated to ability.

Most people had finished the workout minutes ago. It was one of the last classes on a Friday night. Some athletes were still plastered to the gym floor, chests heaving as they stared up at the rafters. Others milled about, wiping down bars. I was the…

It was the same foundational movement she teaches the children in her CrossFit Kids class at CrossFit MF — except there, they call it an “oompa loompa.” It’s a good thing someone’s doing something about it. It’s not that they should never have a…

1,110 reps. That was the work set before the masters of the 2021 NOBULL CrossFit Games on Wednesday. And for some, that wasn't enough. 1,110 reps. That was the work set before the masters of the 2021 NOBULL CrossFit Games on Wednesday. It’s a hell of…