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. 

 By Lincoln Shryack After three straight weekends of qualifying mayhem at the 2018 CrossFit Regionals, the fields of 40 men and 40 women moving on to the 2018 CrossFit Games in Madison, Wisconsin, are set. There were breathtaking performances from past champions, many first-time qualifiers, and, of course, heartbreak for those who came up just short of the cutline across the globe in the nine dramatic qualifying events. Overall, each of the nine regionals lived up to the hype and more.

CrossFit HQ is back at it again with some of their best content ever: the Road to the Games series.

Dave Castro surprised everyone by putting up 18.5 to a community vote and then made it even crazier by announcing three of the gnarliest Open workouts of all time as the options: 11.6, 13.5, or 14.2.

It’s 18.5! If you’ve survived every Open workout up until this point, this final test is nothing you can’t handle. Or at least that’s the way I’m choosing to look at it… 

The 2018 Open workout announcements are full of rock-star matchups, and I’m going to tell you who will win each of them.

We found out last week that the 2018 CrossFit Games Open is going international, and now we know who to watch at each of those matchups.

Wodapalooza is just a day away and the individual competition is full of studs! Here are some of the biggest names to watch for.