In the beginning, Greg Glassman created the workout known as Fran: 21 thrusters, followed by 21 pull-ups, then 15 of each, then nine of each. Then he vomited. And it was good — like breathing fire.

On Tuesday, June 9, CrossFit founder and CEO Greg Glassman announced he was “retiring.” That’s a term normally reserved for people who have chosen a time to finish their career, which wasn’t the case ...

In CrossFit's laissez-faire free market, there are no rules, the strong prosper, the meek do not inherit anything and are destroyed. The fitness craze, booming in Australia and around the world, is ...

This story has been corrected. Read below. The website for CrossFit, the extreme fitness regimen that has become all the rage, displays an interactive map of the world that's almost hypnotic. You ...

Early on an October morning, I met Eric Roza for a workout at a CrossFit gym in Boulder, Colorado. Roza, who is fifty-three, was a few months into his tenure as the owner and chief executive of ...