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What does it all mean?! Bill and Chase sit down for a fun round table of what Dave Catro's clues and the athletes equipment list could mean for the CrossFit Games online format programming. 

Bill Grundler and Chase Ingraham discuss their favorite moments, memories and stories of the 2015 CrossFit Games.

Bill Grundler and Chase Ingraham discuss their Top 4 favorite memories, moments and stories of the 2014 CrossFit Games. 

We FINALLY had an in person LIVE competition to talk about.  The 2020 Masters Fitness Collective Championship was designed to replace the CrossFit Games what the Masters lost out on this year.  Bill Grundler and Chase Ingraham sat down and analyzed the programming to determine if it indeed lived up to the challenge.

Bill Grundler and Chase Ingraham discuss their favorite behind the scenes moments and memories of the 2013 CrossFit Games.  Chase also forgets what year it is halfway through the show!

Bill Grundler and Chase Ingraham share their favorite 4 moments of the 2012 CrossFit Games.  This ended up being the year that brought Chase and Bill's careers together for the first time ever.

Bill Grundler and Chase Ingraham talk about their favorite moments of the 2011 CrossFit Games.  Did someone say after party?! 

Bring Regionals Back! Keep The Sanctionals! Why not both?! Well that was harder than we thought! Bill Grundler and Chase Ingraham go round and round with their ideas of how to restructure the current CrossFit Games Season.  What they came up with could be even more confusing than it already is.   One thing is for certain, there is a new appreciation for the decision makers of CrossFit HQ as they t...

2010 was a big year for the CrossFit Games but even a bigger year for one of our hosts.  Bill Grundler and Chase Ingraham talk about their favorite moments of the 2010 CrossFit Games.

The CrossFit Games are going online... again.  The Games just announced that only 5 men and women will make the trip to Aromas California to compete LIVE on The Ranch.  They will do an online qualifier to cut down from 30 athletes. How can do this in the most fair way for all athletes around the world? We have the answer. Additionally, the "Teen and Masters International Championship" just conclud...

The Games have changed again.  Now the 30 men and women that had a ticket to Aromas must go through yet another online qualifier.   This time, only the Top 5 athletes will make their way to the live competition finale in Aromas California for the 2020 CrossFit Games. Bill Grundler and Chase Ingraham give their WAY too early, with no context and borderline irresponsible picks of the Top 5 men and w...

2015 will go down as one of the toughest and most controversial CrossFit Games of all time however it didn't all center around the programming.  External factors of environment, scoring systems and injuries became a focal point towards the end of the weekend. But did it overshadow who won? Bill Grundler and Chase Ingraham sit down with special guest Dan Bailey and discuss this years CrossFit Games...

Bill Grundler and Chase Ingraham relive their fondest memories and moments of the 2009 CrossFit Games

Bill Grundler and Chase Ingraham reminisce on their favorite moments and memories of the 2008 CrossFit Games.

One of the most unique and challenging years of programming at the CrossFit Games also had some of the greatest drama and stories of the CrossFit Games.  3 time CrossFit Games Champion Rich Froning has announced this is his final year as an individual. Along with him, some of the greatest athletes to ever grace the competition floor will also be taking the floor for the last time as individuals. S...

The year that started it all. The 2007 CrossFit Games changed everything who know, and maybe don't know, about CrossFit and the CrossFit Community.  What started as a backyard beer drinking Bar-B-Que "Celebration of Fitness" sparked a Fitness Revolution. Bill Grundler and  Chase Ingraham go back and talk about their Top 4 favorite moments of the 2007 CrossFit Games.

It keeps getting bigger, better and more unique as the tests of the CrossFit Games continue to challenge the athletes year in and year out. 2013 is heradled by many spectators and athletes alike as one of the best CrossFit Games to date.  The events were fun to watch but even more so the spectacle and grandure of the CrossFit Games reach new levels like never before. CrossFit Games legend Josh Bri...

Adam Klink slayed Dave Castro's Giant with a 4:56 Mile and a 500# Back Squat in the same day... so what's next? Bill Grundler and Chase Ingraham sit down with special guest and 6 time CrossFit Games individual athlete Margaux Alvarez to program the newest challenge on the block.. "PEGASUS". Together they answer the questions on what the best gymnastics test would be to compliment the squat and run...

The year is 2002.. the "Foundations" journal article has been written and the World is introduced to CrossFit's definition of "Fringe Athletes". Athletes who's fitness demands are so specialized as to be inconsistent with the adaptations that give maximum competency at all physical challenges. In the Level 1 Seminar Lecture "What is CrossFit?" an example was used in a diagram of two "Fringe Athlet...

"Fan Service: A Programmable Debate" — In this NEW segment we take ideas directly from the community and our listeners about topics we feel will make fun conversation. — Our first ever segment idea comes from Patrick Brown who asked the question "What's more impressive? Austin Malleolo's 600# Deadlift + 4:27:45 Marathon or Adam Klink's 500# Back Squat and 5:12 Mile... all in the same day?"

Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic the CrossFit Games were forced to make a hard choices and cut the teams from competition. In comes Rich Froning and CrossFit Mayhem to the rescue by creating their own Team Competition, "Mayhem Madness".   The 9 pre-qualified Sanctioned Event teams have been invited but to field a total of 12 teams they created an online qualifier. Who made it? How was the test? All th...

The 2020 Rogue Invitational was the most revolutionary Live Event ever produced in the CrossFit landscape. What could have been technological distaster turned into a ground breaking success from start to finish. — In this episode Bill Grundler and Chase Ingraham look back at the programming done by Josh Bridges and Chris Spealler for The Rogue Invitational and discuss their favorite moments of the...

The competitive landscape has changed again.. literally.  Athletes were taken off site to the now infamous military base "Camp Pendleton" for the first event of the CrossFit Games.  The weekend saw a variety of movements and tests never seen  tested against a bigger, broader collection of athletes.  Bill Grundler and Chase Ingraham determine if all these events stacked up to be a true test to find...

"MURPH" is around the corner and affiliates all over the World are faced with a unique decision this year. — Chase Ingraham and Bill Grundler go through a variety of topics circulating around "Murph" this year: - Should you do it? - What are the dangers? - How should you modify it? - What substitutes to use for pull-ups? - should you postpone it all together? — All these questions and more are ans...

The CrossFit Games has taken yet another evolutionary leap forward in 2011.  Qualifying Regional Events all over the world have been unified sending the best CrossFit Athletes to Carson.  ESPN and Reebok have joined the fold bringing in a new World Wide Audience. The spectacle that is the Sport of Fitness has changed.. but can the Programming keep up? In 2011, the CrossFit Games Programming was th...