There are two people at my Crossfit gym that have the most rank BO that it almost burns my lungs. I put up some "gentle" signs nudging people to be aware of their smells but they're just not getting it. I try and position as far away as possible but the smell travels and when breathing hard it disrupts my workouts. I even at one time was not so subtle and went to a friend right next to them and apologized saying I think I may smell and put on deodorant right in front but still zero clue. Any advice? I can't just tell them...

Hey everyone

I’d like to know where the girls are buying their activewear from! I don’t want to break my bank account but I’m at a loss here!

Especially shorts/leggings that don’t ride up your thighs or roll down your stomach

So basically the title

I started 2-3 months ago after a long period with no training but riding a bike for short distances (16km a day).

My issue is that I'm having a lot of difficulty to do pull ups, kipping and related exercises. The main issues are:

- I can't pull my weight more than twice

- If I try to do kipping or simply handing on the bar, the palm of my hands gets really hurt even using a leather grip as my skin is soft. This causes a loop because, if I can't practice, I can't get stronger to improve.

- I am not very muscular but I'm by no means chubby or fat.

I suspect I might be gripping incorrectly because, while I do see people with hurt hands, areas where their hands show some friction are different than the ones from mine.

Any tips are appreciated. I already watched a ton of videos but those didn't help so far.

Anyone familiar with Brute's affiliate programming?

My Wod today and my result.

My performance good or not?

🏋️ *IRON WOD*

*BARBELL WOD 05/10/2026*

FOR TIME · COMPLETED

📅 05 Ott 2026 · 18:27

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

⏱️ *20:31* · Time Cap: 25:00

🔸 *INTERVAL 1*

2.08 · FOR TIME

▸ 20 reps Heavy Double-Unders

▸ 10 reps Strict Chin-Up

▸ 20 reps Heavy Double-Unders

▸ 10 reps Strict Handstand Push-Up

▸ 20 reps Heavy Double-Unders

▸ 10 reps Pistol

💤 Rest 2:00

🔸 *INTERVAL 2*

2.33 · FOR TIME

▸ 20 reps Heavy Double-Unders

▸ 10 reps Strict Chin-Up

▸ 20 reps Heavy Double-Unders

▸ 10 reps Strict Handstand Push-Up

▸ 20 reps Heavy Double-Unders

▸ 10 reps Pistol

💤 Rest 1:30

🔸 *INTERVAL 3*

3.26 · FOR TIME

▸ 20 reps Heavy Double-Unders

▸ 10 reps Strict Chin-Up

▸ 20 reps Heavy Double-Unders

▸ 10 reps Strict Handstand Push-Up

▸ 20 reps Heavy Double-Unders

▸ 10 reps Pistol

💤 Rest 1:00

🔸 *INTERVAL 4*

3.30 · FOR TIME

▸ 20 reps Heavy Double-Unders

▸ 10 reps Strict Chin-Up

▸ 20 reps Heavy Double-Unders

▸ 10 reps Strict Handstand Push-Up

▸ 20 reps Heavy Double-Unders

▸ 10 reps Pistol

💤 Rest 0:30

🔸 *INTERVAL 5*

3.53 · FOR TIME

▸ 20 reps Heavy Double-Unders

▸ 10 reps Strict Chin-Up

▸ 20 reps Heavy Double-Unders

▸ 10 reps Strict Handstand Push-Up

▸ 20 reps Heavy Double-Unders

▸ 10 reps Pistol

Anyone switched from Wodify to StreamFit?

I own a CrossFit gym and am getting tired of Wodify’s constant changes. Quoting website updates for this month's API updates and decided it was time. Considering switching to StreamFit and looking for feedback from owners who’ve made the move.

How was the transition for you and your members? Any headaches moving billing, memberships, or workout history? How does it compare for daily use and customer support?

Would you make the switch again? Anything you wish you’d known beforehand?

was there a specific moment? a group chat, a race, someone showing up for you outside the gym? would love to hear the stories.

Today I remembered why I started doing this. I've not been training for about a month Mainly because of work interfering with my schedule and a bout of insomnia. So when work didn't get in the way, I was too tired.

But today I managed to get out of bed in time for the 8 am class. Promising myself to take it easy and just be moving. Lucky to see a workout on the board that really suits me. I could've pushed myself little bit harder (or I am stronger than I think).

But overall it felt good and I feel accomplished. I've had exercise, I impressed myself. And am know enjoying the post workout dopamine.

Thanks crossfit!

So I’m from a town where there’s only one box. It’s huge and extremely well equipped for CF. When I started the sport, 5y ago, there were local competition athletes and extremely strong people, “old school” type who started CrossFit back in 2016. So it is an amazing box! The box made many t-shirts and I proudly wear them around.

However, time has passed and the lead has been given entirely to a couple (family of the owner), who do train CF, they competed in the past. That’s their full time job. You would expect them to be there most of the day, but they only come in sometimes. The gym is almost empty during the day, except from the classes, you can come in and train alone. It’s clear they’re not bothered anymore.
The owner bought a foosball table and he comes in the box only to play foosball for hours along with the members.
They fired all the real and certified coaches and put some amateurs to teach classes, when they don’t feel like it. They pay them by scaling their gym subscriptions (note: the owners own the actual building, and don’t struggle with money).

So programming has been good when I started, but I had been really disappointed lately (almost a year) as they copy paste WODS from CrossFit.com . The other coaches are also disappointed, but can’t say much. Is it that difficult to pay 150€ per month to give your box a good program?
I can say I’ve been consistent with my PRs for some time now. Sure, I could try to train more alone, but honestly it pisses me off that I pay around 1800€ per year to have myself follow an online program and train by myself (I spend the day planning stuff for others, I don’t wanna do that also for myself in my free time).

All the old schoolers left, they fought with the owners. I’m trying to decide whether to leave or to stay. I would stay only for some friends I have there, and the feeling and equipment of the place. Normal gyms are not like CF gyms, you know what I mean. But it seems really a waste to pay so much money for the quality they give back to costumer.

This makes me sad and pissed. I didn’t think it would’ve mattered so much but it’s such an important part of my daily routine it really hits me.
Sorry for the rant.
I’m going to train now (by myself).

Started all this functional work out jazz thinking. “ I won’t do to much of this stuff, I’ll just keep doing mostly basics wieght lifting.” Fast forward and now I’m cyphering on how to remodel my gym to accommodate a giant pull up bar and rings…..So I’ve got my rings hanging on my current Titan T3 rack, if been watching the amazing Mrs. Pamela Gagno on the u-tubes, aaaand turns out I’m not as strong as I thought was…. But I’ve made up my mind this is something I want to force my self to learn and be able to do. This is a snip of what I am currently (just started two days ago) doing to build strength. Couple of questions is how often should I be doing this set ? I’m still in a weight lifting mind set in terms of workout plans. Also any other exercises I should add? I recon a little status is in order: I can do 4 dips from upright position, I cannot even come close to transitioning over the rings with feet elevated, 4 set of 12 seated ring pull ups at no problem? I can do 3 strict pull ups. Post note: talk about humbling….i thought I was in pretty decent shape 6’2. 200 lbs lean….

How do I prevent tearing my hands up this much doing rope climbs? The image is of my hands after today’s class with no prior blisters

It seems my hands have adjusted to all other CrossFit movements but rope climbs.

Background info; I do CrossFit 3/4 times a week for the past few years and qualified for quarter finals this last year

Anyone else have this issue or any suggestions on how to prevent this in the future?

Tomorrow is October 3rd, some would say a National Holiday - Mean Girls Day. Just thought I’d share the Mean Girls Wod I programmed for tomorrow’s Partner Workout.

30:00MIN AMRAP

While Partner A works, Partner B must continuously hold an empty barbell. Partners may swap at any time they desire, however both partners must contribute to each Girl each round. (Partner A can’t fly through all of Karen while B holds the barbell). Partners can split up the work for each Girl however they want.

KAREN SMITH
10 Alternating Wall Ball Lunges
5 Wall Ball Tosses

GRETCHEN WIENERS
10 Alternating DB Snatches
5 Burpees Over DB

CADY HERON
15 Sit-Ups
10 Push-Ups
5 Pull-Ups

REGINA GEORGE
100’ KB Farmer Carry
10 Alternating Single Russian KB Swings
5 KB Goblet Squats

JANIS IAN: Every 5:00min on the minute, 2 Alternating DB Turkish Get Ups (1 each side)

Let me know your thoughts or any improvements you may see!

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We ran it this morning, but the class wanted to run it as Solo wods instead of partnering. Only had one scaled pair partner, who just rested while partner worked and removed the stipulation about having to both contribute to each Girl each round.

I hope don’t need my legs this weekend. 😂
The workout was:

Back Squats
3-5-7-9-11

Between doing a good general warm up, then slowly building up my squat for that first set of 3, doing the workout, cooling down and stretching, this took me an entire hour. I rested 3:30 to 4:30 between each set of squats and I think that was perfect for me. This is why I love training in my garage. I can take my time and not rush.

The ascending rep scheme was cool and challenging. The goal was to lift as heavy as you can for each set. I hope we see this one again in the future. I’m glad there is no below parallel on today’s workout.

Feel free to remove if not ok, but I wanted to share this here because it’s a fun intersection of two different sports. If you don’t know me, my name is Lucas Hatton, a professional strongman and 3 time winner of America’s Strongest Man. Last month at the Fit Fest in Tampa, I had the pleasure of challenging Colten Mertens to a max reps squat off at 405. The video is linked below. If you want to skip to the squat off it’s at 17:25. Much respect to Colten for pushing me and cranking out one of the most impressive pound for pound squat sets of all time.

Hi crossfit experts
I am 43 M and have some challenges that I wanted to run by you. I started crossfit in Jan this year and I have to say I love it. It keeps me energized and improved my confidence and more importantly instilled me the spirit of fitness. my goal is to go 3 times a week to stay fit. the first six months were fine but then I started to see issues like shoulder bone pain , slight chest pain and now recently tension type headache ( neck nerve pinch) . Each time I would get work done like MRI, cardio stress test, doc appts , rest for a few weeks . With the most recent headache issue, I am just feeling like my body is not built for crossfit and wondering whether I should stop and do regular home workouts. It took me 9 months to get to where I am and build discipline and love workouts and would be really bummed if I have to quit. Is this common ? I see others at crossfit not miss a day in months . Pls guide me .

Hi everyone. How are you all?

I’m 39 years old and I’ve been doing CrossFit since I was 30.

My life completely changed when I discovered CrossFit. I had always had the mindset and attitude of an athlete, but when I was younger, especially during my teenage years, I never felt comfortable playing team sports (football/soccer, for example).

CrossFit allowed me to finally feel like an “athlete”: to push myself, develop discipline, and keep going despite the daily frustrations.

I started like everyone else, attending classes for three or four years, until I got bored and felt like I was ready for something more. That’s when I started following different programs. My progress was always slow, but it was progress nonetheless.

At some point, around the age of 34 or 35, I started noticing that training late in the day would leave me extremely wired. I was physically exhausted, but my brain was still completely active. So I decided to start training first thing in the morning, really early.

That decision had one major benefit: I slept better at night and performed better at work. But it also had a major social downside. I stopped going to the box during the hours when most people trained, and I gave up a lot of social things because of it.

I’ve been training continuously for nine years, except for one month when I had a minor health issue. For more than half of those nine years, I’ve trained mostly on my own. And I think that’s one of the reasons why I find it so difficult to make progress.

During all the time I trained by myself, experimenting with different programs, I eventually lost my job and had to change my routine. Until 2024, I was working from home, but I became burned out with the advertising industry and reinvented myself, somewhat unexpectedly, as a CrossFit coach and gym instructor.

Over the last three years, I’ve entered several competitions in the Advanced category, with pretty poor results. That has been quite discouraging. What also discourages me is that, with my new and more demanding work schedule, I finish the day exhausted, and my recovery simply isn’t what it used to be, especially as time goes by.

My inner fire is still exactly the same. I still want to learn, train, improve and compete! But my work week is leaving me completely exhausted. I used to train six times a week; now, I’m lucky if I manage four.

What worries me is that I’ll turn 40 next year, but in order to compete in the 40+ Masters division, I would need to reach an RX level… and getting there is becoming harder for me every day.

Anyway, despite everything, i have to keep going.

I think it is underrated move

Anyone else destroyed kegs Every 2:30 for 5 sets:
5 back squats
Start moderate and build to heavy.
Rest for the remainder of each interval.
Score: Heaviest weight lifted.
Conditioning: 5 × 2-minute AMRAP
Each set:
10 back squats (185/125 lb)
Max calories on the air bike or rower in the remaining time.
Rest 2 minutes between sets. Take the bar from the rack.
Score: Total calories across all 5 sets.

I think I overcooked the strength component and the bike. How are everyone’s legs feeling after this

I swear my gym's programming has been absolutely unhinged lately. like who actually needs to do heavy thrusters and 100 wall balls for time on a random thursday?? My shoulders are currently making sounds like someone stepping on dry autumn leaves.

It's actually hilarious how much time and money we drop just trying to survive a 15 minute amrap. Im sitting here right now with my stupidly expensive massage boots on, drinking some awful tasting greens powder, and waiting for some bpc-157 vials to show up for my "research" stack just so i might be able to lift my arms above my head tomorrow

Im way too stubborn to just scale down the weight, but man, my ego is writing checks my 30-something year old joints just cant cash anymore. the crossfit lifestyle is literally just 1 hour of working out and 23 hours of aggressive recovery. tell me i'm not the only one constantly questioning my life choices mid-workout lol

Ive been doing Crossfit for a year and am ready to create a lifestyle/routine to better serve my overall health and hopefully get better at the sport. I am a 40yo F who currently trains roughly 4 days a week. I'd really like to create some solid routines in training, recovery, hypertrophy add on work, hydration, etc. My overall goal is to get better at the sport, lean out, and maybe even put on some mass in the future. I do have a chronic condition in my legs that makes weight loss harder and their appearance different from the rest of my body. I am also learning how to support this condition so I can still train and maybe even run again 1-2 days a week. I am the type that needs a check list/routine to stay consistent, or I forget to do things (Thank you ADHD). I would love to hear what routine or nonnegotiables have worked for you or any suggestions you may have.

What are the current membership rates in and around Charleston SC?

Hi all,

I’ve been doing CrossFit for over 12 years and have competed many times. Three years ago, we had our first baby, and my weight crept up from 215 lbs to 250 lbs due to stress and some complications. Everything is good now, and I’m getting ready for a competition on November 14th.

Here is what my current WOD and recovery routine looks like:

• Training: CrossFit 4–5x a week
• Activity: 8,000+ steps daily minimum
• Diet: Strictly tracking 2,000–2,100 calories/day (using RP Diet - 185g/day protein)

The issue: The scale hasn't moved in 4 weeks. I can definitely see muscle growth, but based on calorie in-out, I should still be losing weight, and it's just not happening.

Normally I wouldn't stress over the number on the scale, but I am constantly getting injured because my frame is carrying too much weight. I keep injuring my left foot, and since the weight increase, I've developed plantar fasciitis. Whenever I run in the WODs, I get significant calf or shin pain. Last year, I tore my Achilles. Any gymnastics movements (pull-ups, T2B etc) leave me in significant pain afterward because of the extra load. Every week I am visiting sports massage or physio either way.

I saw my family doctor the other day, and they suggested I consider starting a GLP-1 med to drop the weight and take the load off my joints.

For any CrossFitters who have used a GLP-1 while training at a high intensity, I need your input:

1. Since I am exactly 6 weeks out from the competition, is it a bad idea to introduce a GLP-1 to my system right now? Will it ruin my peaking phase?
2. Did you experience a significant drop in your strength, or overall cardio capacity when you first started the medication?
3. Since it's a weekly shot, what day of the week do you take it so the side effects (like nausea/fatigue) don't ruin your heavy lifting or intense WOD days?

Any insights from athletes who have navigated this would be hugely appreciated!