Anyone who has followed the CrossFit Games closely over the last few years can tell you this about the two greatest male athletes the event has ever produced: Rich Froning and Mat Fraser hate being compared to each other. 

Summer 2018 isn’t even officially here, but already the fitness community can look forward to 2019 with today’s release of the dates for The Wodapalooza Online Challenge and Qualifier. Wodapalooza brings out a monster swell of the fitness community each January — with 25,000 spectators and 1,500 athletes representing countries all over the world, Miami in the new year is the place to be for fans, beginners, and fitness stars alike. 

Let’s pretend that on Sunday instead of watching Tom Brady and the Patriots take the field to win another Super Bowl that we were sitting down to watch the first annual "Fitter Bowl." It’s like the Super Bowl, but with CrossFitters, Strongman athletes, and weightlifters.  

It appears that CrossFit Mayhem has decided on who will be competing on both of their teams for the 2018 CrossFit Games season. After Dave Castro announced that the team competition will be switching from a six-person format to a four-person format, many wondered how CrossFit Mayhem would respond. 

It's been a pretty crazy week for affiliates putting together super teams for the 2018 CrossFit Games. The same week Mayhem announced CrossFit Game veteran Tasia Percevecz as their newest member, Dave Castro announced that teams will go from six members to four for the 2018 season. So what does the six-time CrossFit Games Champion do?

On the first episode of Froning & Friends, Rich Froning's new podcast with some of the Mayhem crew, Rich and the team were reminiscing about some of the tougher events from the 2017 CrossFit Games season when he mentioned he'd torn his meniscus the week before regionals.