I’d been attending CrossFit workouts for two months before I began to learn the Kipping Pull-Up. Until that point, every Pull-Up I’d ever performed had been the more traditional strict, dead-arm hang, ...

SANTA CLARA, California, September 29. G. John Mullen, one of Swimming World's dryland correspondents, is back with another dryland training tip video that focuses on CrossFit Kipping Pull-Ups, which ...

Is it a workout — or a sport? The CrossFit debate raged for years. After all, CrossFit became a sensation by turning barbell lifts, rope climbs, pull-ups and medicine ball throws into timed workouts, ...

Forget complex machinery; the simplest bodyweight exercise is now the gold standard for posture, spinal health, and elite ...

The annual CrossFit Games in Los Angeles made a brief field trip to Irvine’s William Wollett Jr. Aquatics Center for an event called The Pool. Starting at 8 a.m. Wednesday, 91 competitors were timed ...

What is it about pull-ups that makes them so impressive, and why do so many lifters judge themselves based on how many they can crank out in a row? Unlike the squat, bench press, and deadlift – the ...

The second workout of the 2025 CrossFit season has dropped and, well, there's a lot to get through and not a lot of time to do it in. Announced live from CrossFit Incendia in Peoria, Arizona, 25.2 is ...

During a recent WOD (workout of the day), we had to do 14 pull-ups. I grabbed two bands, and some people around me said, "Sugar, you don't need those!" I felt like they were right. I shouldn't need ...