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CROSSFIT HEALTH

CrossFit Health is a space for healthcare professionals to access education, connect with the community, and find the most effective ways to support their patients.

CrossFit for Health 2024 Lecture Series

Published on April 2, 2024

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.

Pregnancy and Athletic Performance in CrossFit

Published on October 13, 2023

“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.

Habits for Health and Performance Inside and Outside the CrossFit Gym

Published on October 11, 2023

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.

CrossFit Podcast: Mental Health

Published on April 20, 2023

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. 

A Daily Assessment of Relative Intensity With Jesse Burdick

Published on March 11, 2023

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.

CrossFit Podcast: Owen Valuch, Cancer Survivor

Published on March 7, 2023

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.

CrossFit Health Book Club and Webinar for March

Published on March 4, 2023

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.

Introducing the CrossFit Medical Doctors Level 2 Certificate Course

Published on February 19, 2023

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