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Over the past year, Adidas has made major investments in the competitive fitness world, nowhere more evident than in hybrid training and racing. At the ninth annual HYROX World Championships in Stockholm, Sweden, Adidas showed up in full force across the elite divisions. The squad included 2025 champion Tim Wenisch, Cole Learn, Danél Louw, Melanie Maurer, Katherin Fahsbender…...

Five hundred and fifty CrossFit athletes will head to Dallas, TX, to compete in the first Decathlon of Fitness at the Ford Center at The Star, the Dallas Cowboys' headquarters. The lineup includes a mix of lifestyle and elite CrossFit athletes vying for the XENOM world record and a $25,000 cash prize, including CrossFit Games athletes Olivia Kerstetter, Emily Rolfe, Kyra Mill...

From June 18 through Sunday, June 21, the world’s best HYROX athletes will descend on Strawberry Arena in Stockholm, Sweden, the host venue for the 2026 HYROX World Championships. This year, there were 310 race days across 105 HYROX events worldwide, which attracted more than 1.5 million people. The first HYROX World Championships took place in 2019 in Oberhausen, Germany…

On Thursday, June 11, training essentials brand and former CrossFit Games title sponsor NOBULL released a new addition to its footwear lineup, the Outwork Flex. The details: Outwork is NOBULL’s legacy strength-training shoe, built for lifters who want maximum stability and durability for heavy compound movements. Keeping pace with the growing popularity of strength and fitnes...

Like many of his fellow competitors, Jake Williamson never spent time as a young man poring over his training journals, with his sights set on becoming a professional HYROX athlete. In four short years since, he has risen to the top – a dynamic athlete and role model in competitive fitness – and is a major contender to win his division at the HYROX World Championships, just a...