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Complete as many rounds as possible in 20 minutes of: Run 400 meters 25 kettlebell swings, 1.5 pood 25 GHD sit-ups Your 2016 CrossFit Games Champions are Katrin Davidsdottir and Mat Fraser! Katrin is now reigning champ for 2 years straight and Mat put in a performance over the week that gave him the biggest lead in Games history going into the last day of competition. If you’ve kept up with any of the behind the scenes videos on either of these two you know their motivations were strong coming into this season. Katrin wanted to prove that last year was no fluke and earlier this year her grandmother whom she was very close to passed away, so she used both to help push her to a higher level and give exercise a new meaning. Mat made it very clear that he never wanted the feeling of having the top...
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Row 50 cal 50 abmat situps Row 40 cal 40 abmat situps Row 30 cal 30 abmat situps Row 20 cal 20 abmat situps Row 10cal 10 abmat situps It’s the final day of the 2016 CrossFit Games and after today competitors will have endured 14 events over the course of 5 days! Who will be titled the fittest when it’s all over?!  
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For time: 185-lb. weighted lunges, 20 steps 20 muscle-ups 200-ft. handstand walk 185-lb. hang power cleans, 20 reps 20 box jumps, 36-inch box 20 handstand push-ups to 6-inch deficit 185-lb. front squats, 20 reps After Day 3, which involved Murph, a squat clean ladder, and Double DT (yep, it was exactly what it sounds like), we’re on to Day 4. With 3 events on the schedule for the day, and the first involving a “Snail push”, if it’s anything like what we’ve witnessed so far it’s sure to be impressive! See all results at the CF Games Leaderboard. Who will lead at the end of today?!  
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7 rounds for time of: 95-lb. sumo deadlift high pulls, 10 reps 10 ring dips @mathewfras 🇺🇸 dusts the field in the opening event of the 2016 Reebok CrossFit Games, finishing the 7k run in 34:10.27—over a minute faster than the next-closest finisher @BridgesJ3 🇺🇸 . #CrossFitGames #CFG10 #CrossFit 📷 @metconphotos A photo posted by The CrossFit Games (@crossfitgames) on Jul 20, 2016 at 12:27pm PDT After being loaded on a bus at 3:30am on Wednesday, flown to The Ranch in Aromas California and performing a grueling 7k trail run followed 10 minutes later by a deadlift pyramid beginning at weights over many of our 1RM and followed by 19 other barbells increasing in weight, and then a mini-chipper involving 20# wallballs for ladies and 30# for the men, some ghd sit-ups and a medball hill sprint, the athletes returned to Carson yesterday morning. In past years the swim event has...
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Front Squat 3-3-3-3-3 After a 1-week road trip where we didn’t do much other than ride in a truck, eat and drink not-so-Paleo food, and very little exercise, we decided to come back and jump back into Zoning our food for a few weeks. We tried out this new recipe from PaleoLeap.com and it was delicious! Minimal prep and loads of flavor! You’ll have to do your own measuring to get it balanced but some cauliflower rice did just the trick for us. Have a new recipe or website that has become a go-to in your household? Post to comments!  
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