CrossFit Media Library

The CrossFit Level 1 Course doesn't ease you in; it pulls you in. From the first lecture to the first movement group, the morning of Day 1 is designed to replace uncertainty with understanding and hesitation with conviction. Here's what happens when the classroom doors open.

On this episode of the CrossFit Show, Chris Cooper, founder of Two-Brain Business, the largest gym mentorship company in the world, joins host James Hobart to chat about why he reaffiliated his CrossFit gym.

The CrossFit Level 1 Certificate Course has set the gold standard for fitness education for over two decades, but what most participants never see is the machinery behind the experience. Before a single rep is coached or a lecture begins, hours of preparation, deliberate connection, and relentless attention to detail have already shaped the day. This is the story of how it all comes together.

On this episode of the Sport of Fitness Podcast, Adam Neiffer and the members of Team CrossFit Fort Vancouver join host Chase Ingraham to chat about the affiliate’s return to the Games.

In this episode of the CrossFit Podcast, host Jocelyn Rylee sits down with Michelle Hespeler and Dr. Sule Tinaz of Yale School of Medicine to explore the science and lived experience behind high-intensity exercise for Parkinson’s disease.

In Parkinson’s disease, exercise-induced neuroplasticity may help support dopamine signaling and motor control pathways that become impaired as the disease progresses. As such, CrossFit represents a plausible and structured intervention framework.

Each week CrossFit offers in-person courses around the world as well as a variety of online courses.

Every workout format a programmer reaches for is a direct expression of philosophy in action. Couplets, chippers, intervals, and five-round efforts are not interchangeable tools — each one does something the others cannot. Understanding the difference is what separates intentional CrossFit programming from random programming.

On this episode of the CrossFit Show, the San Jose Sports Authority Executive Director John Poch joins host James Hobart to chat about the 2026 CrossFit Games and what it means for the city of San Jose.

Spencer Hendel has spent nearly 20 years programming workouts with a single goal: to build people who are harder to break. In this piece, he breaks down the philosophy behind purposeful programming and why movement selection, time domains, and standards all exist to get athletes to one defining moment, and what they do when they get there.