CROSSFIT HEALTH

A 10-part series from the 2024 CrossFit for Health Summit, featuring lectures and discussions on fitness, performance, longevity, chronic disease, mental health, and community.

“I’m pregnant — is CrossFit safe for me? Which movements? How hard can I work out?” The short answer? Yes, it’s safe to train CrossFit while pregnant. Dr. Allison Strnad, M.D., Dr. Jaime Seeman, M.D., and CrossFit’s Nicole Christensen (CF-L4) joined moderator Mike Giardina (CF-L4) at the 2023 NOBULL CrossFit Games in Madison, Wisconsin, to answer those questions and more in this CrossFit Health panel discussion.

What do experts say are the top five habits that support health and performance? Once you learn about these healthy behaviors, how can you maintain them without becoming overly obsessive and compromising your mental health? During a CrossFit Health panel at the 2023 CrossFit Games, Nicole Aucoin, Tom McCoy, and Dawn Fletcher joined CrossFit Senior Manager of Health Education Mike Giardina (CF-L4) to discuss how to maintain good habits for health and performance.

Bill Anthes, from Between the Ears, joins Mike Giardina (CF-L4) on the CrossFit Health Podcast to discuss mental health — or mental fitness — by using CrossFit and the tools that are accessible in our CrossFit affiliates. 

Dr. Andreas Eenfeldt sits down with Mike Giardina to discuss focusing on high-protein foods to improve metabolic health. Dr. Eenfeldt is a Swedish doctor who specializes in family medicine. He is also the CEO of Diet Doctor.

Jesse Burdick, expert strength coach and head coach at PowerWod, sits down with Mike Giardina to discuss the need to be an open minded coach as a way to grow and dig properly assessing physical and psychological tolerances in your athletes.

Owen Valuch, CrossFit Games Medical Team Manager, sits down with Stephane Rochet at the 2022 NOBULL CrossFit Games to chat about his experience on the medical team at the Games, being a firefighter, and surviving cancer.

Welcome to the CrossFit Health Book Club. Each month, we will announce the title of a book based on a health topic we will cover through articles, social media posts, Instagram lives, and webinars. The book for March 2023 is Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones. We would love for you to read along with us and provide feedback and questions for our webinar in the comments below.

On Wednesday, March, 29, 2023, at 12 p.m. PT, Dr. Tom McCoy will discuss how to build habits necessary to improve health.

others. From understanding how to teach — distilling down your knowledge to smaller, more cognitively digestible chunks — to practicing how to tell someone they are doing something incorrectly and providing actionable ways for them to improve. The Level 2 sets the framework for becoming a better instructor no matter what skill or information you’re trying to instruct. Over the weekend of Feb. 4-5, 2023,, the first CrossFit Level 2 for medical doctors (CF-MDL2) took place at The Ranch. In attendance were 24 MDs, many of whom had been part of the inaugural CF-MDL1

In this webinar, Harvard psychiatrist and researcher Christopher M. Palmer, M.D., joins Mike Giardina for a discussion about the Brain Energy Theory, which states that mental disorders are metabolic disorders. This is in conflict with some of the common theories of mental illness, such as the biopsychosocial model, the genetic model, and the chemical-imbalance theory. These current theories have some validity and offer some clues into the treatment of mental illness, but they do not paint the full picture.

Welcome to the CrossFit Health Book Club. Each month, we will announce the title of a book based on a health topic we will cover through articles, social-media posts, Instagram lives, and webinars. The book for February 2023 is Flexible Dieting: A Science-Based, Reality-Tested Method for Achieving and Maintaining Your Optimal Physique, Performance & Health. We would love for you to read along with us and provide feedback and questions for our webinar in the comments below.

The dates for six upcoming HCPL1 Courses around the world have been announced.

In this interview, Mike Giardina sits down with Dawn Fletcher (CF-L3) to discuss the mental benefits of cold water therapy and experience being coached through a cold-water experience.

Adam Neiffer (CF-L3) owns 14-year affiliate CrossFit Fort Vancouver, where he coaches three days a week. Additionally, Neiffer coaches two-time CrossFit Games champion Justin Medeiros and perennial Games team CrossFit Fort Vancouver.

What’s cooler than being cool? ICE COLD! CrossFit Health has partnered with Ice Barrel and Penguin Chillers for a cold-therapy challenge this February. Cold-water therapy has been catching a lot of attention lately with claims that it can increase metabolism, build resiliency, and improve energy, focus, mood, and recovery. So we're going to put it to the test.

Mike Giardina sits down with Jason Welch at the 2022 NOBULL CrossFit Games. Welch is a nurse anesthetist, a member of the CrossFit Games medical staff, a CrossFit Level 2 Trainer, and an affiliate owner — CrossFit Cadre in Hudson, Ohio.

Welcome to the CrossFit Health Book Club. Each month, we will announce the title of a book based on a health topic we will cover through articles, social-media posts, IG lives, and webinars. The book for January 2023 is “Fat Loss Forever: How to Lose Fat and Keep It Off.” We would love for you to read along with us and provide feedback and questions for our webinar in the comments below.

Mike Giardina sits down with Thomas DeLauer to discuss metabolic optimization. DeLauer is a nutrition and business performance coach who has 3.2 million Youtube subscribers and has helped military special operations, law enforcement, and firefighters develop both metabolic and brain optimization.

Mike Giardina sits down with Simon Bachofner at the 2022 NOBULL CrossFit Games. Bachofner is a nurse practitioner, a 10-year CrossFit athlete, and a five-year CrossFit affiliate owner. As a member of the audience at the CrossFit Health Panel on “Bridging the Gap Between Fitness and Healthcare,” Bachofner posed a lot of great questions to the panel, and after learning Bachofner is also a healthcare professional, Giardina decided to continue the conversation.