If you plan on doing the 2021 CrossFit Open, we recommend first you define WHY you are doing the Open? For fun? Peer pressure? For the community aspect? To push your limits? To qualify for the Quar...

First off, training for the Open should have started the first week of December; and for some, even further back. But, we are here now so let’s identify where we are so we can implement sound struc...

Big Dawgs Coaches Sam Smith and Brian Foley walk you through everything you'll need to be successful in the 2020 CrossFit Open. In this article, Sam and Brian walk through CrossFit Open 20.2 which is a 20 min AMRAP of - 4 DB Thrusters - 35#/50# 6 Toes To Bar 24 Double Unders Enjoy!

We always enjoy tossing around some ideas about what we anticipate from the CrossFit Open every year. So, we've decided to put out some legitimate and some not so legitimate guesses each week of the 2020 CrossFit Open. This is week 2 of 5's guesses. Enjoy!

Big Dawgs Coaches Sam Smith and Brian Foley walk you through everything you'll need to be successful in the 2020 CrossFit Open. In this article, Sam and Brian walk through CrossFit Open 20.2 which is a 10 rounds for time - 8 Ground to Overhead - 95#/65# 10 Bar Facing Burpees Enjoy!

So many people ask us “how do I get better for a competition,” so I decided to ask coach Sam Smith to help me better understand how athletes can spend a year building the important movements for a competition. More specifically, I asked him how to improve from one year’s CrossFit Open to next year’s CrossFit Open.

We have been discussing the CrossFit Open with everybody inside of Big Dawgs, so I decided to ask coach Sam Smith to help me better understand how athletes can view the Open for themselves to get their best performance inside of it. Something important to note, though, is that this isn’t an article about how to train for a year - or 5 years - to peak physically for it. No, this article and video are about how to take wherever you sit, right now, and put your best result forward.

We always enjoy tossing around some ideas about what we anticipate from the CrossFit Open every year. So, we've decided to put out some legitimate and some not so legitimate guesses each week of the 2020 CrossFit Open. This is week 1 of 5's predictions. Enjoy!

Download the Open Strategy Guide: 19.3 Week 3 of the CrossFit Open brings us some new movements. The real work starts at the strict handstand pushups, sHSPU, and inside the guide we go over how to...

By now we have all learned what the CrossFit Open Workout 19.1 is: Complete as many rounds as possible in 15 minutes of: 19 wall-ball shots19-cal. row Women: 14lb WB to 9’ Men: 20lb WB to 10’...