Dave digs in to 10 takeaways from the 2023 CrossFit Open when looking at the Elite athletes. - Paige Powers is legit - Samuel Cournoyer is back - What's up with Gui? - North America East is stacked - Back to Back to Back - Teen Champions - Men vs Women - Teams will be fun to watch in 2023 - Why Sara? Why? - A new rule ..read more

Dave and Katharine were chatting about Chandler Smith and decided to start a recording to drop an adhoc podcast on the topic. It also lead to an interesting stat on the effects of the athletes in the bottom half of the leaderboard on the top half that will be dropped at @franlunganalytics on instagram so make sure to follow along for additional content there. All stats are pulled from franlung.com ..read more

We have been running Fantasy Fitnessing since 2020 and with the season changes we will continue to run the fantasy sports games at fantasyfitnessing.com but we are also going to effort the stats and analytics side of the sport at Fran Lung Analytics (franlung.com)  Thanks for being part of Fantasy Fitnessing with us over the past years and we look forward to putting out more content with Fran Lung in the future ..read more

Can you find a CrossFit games rookie based on their open performance? We took a look at the 2022 CrossFit games rookie field, and dove into their 2021 and 2022 open results to see if there are any trends in their performances ..read more

Dave and Katharine did not look at the CrossFit Athlete Rankings until they hit record on this episode. Starts as a bit of a slow roll but at the end there are some pretty big surprises of how athletes ended up ranked.  We were looking at the rankings https://games.crossfit.com/article/2023-crossfit-games-season-worldwide-rankings as well as our athlete data at franlung.com ..read more

CrossFit dropped the algorithm on how athlete rankings will be calculated so we did what we do and calculated out the athlete rankings as best as we could.  There are some assumptions in our data based on the lack of a worldwide quarterfinal leaderboard for 2021 but it still showed the trends by continent and gave us a platform that we could play through some scenarios.  CrossFit has since dropped their calculations applied to 2022 Quarterfinal athletes so this was recorded before hand but our thoughts don't change but some of the numbers will be a bit adjusted. franlung.com ..read more

Laura Horvath is on of the top CrossFit athletes in the world.  She has been on the podium the last two years at the CrossFit Games, and has won multiple competitions the past two season. That said, she finds her self consistently in the bottom of the standings of Handstand Push Up events.  We take a look at 7 events from the past few seasons, and see what the impact to her final spot on the leaderboard is had she had a better performance in the event.  The result, probably isn't what you would expect. Visit us at www.franlung.com Instagram Sign up for our free newsletter ..read more

A quick preview of the Double Show with a Spash event at the 2023 Wodapalooza competition.  We take a look at the contenders for the swim event, their past results and Dave makes his picks for the podium finishers in the event. You can find us on Instagram www.instagram.com/fantasyfitnessing If you want a deep dive into the stats, check out our patreon www.patreon.com/fantasyfitnessing And make sure you get your fantasy teams in for wodapalooza.  You can play for free on www.fantasyfitnessing.com ..read more

Dave and Katharine run through their fantasy teams and how their teams did. They breakdown: The most selected athletes in the salary cap game Top performers by salary bracket What the perfect team would have looked like Then they review their top 10 picks  and review how the leaderboard looked at the end of the weekend. All fantasy games and stats are from fantasyfitnessing.com ..read more

Dave looks back a Grace version that have been tested in Elite CrossFit Competition. Heavy Grace at the 2022 Rogue Invitational, Double Grace at the 2014 CrossFit Games, Squat Grace at the 2008 CrossFit Games and Hitting the Slopes with Grace at the 2019 MACC.  Looks at the winners and what those workouts were if you are looking for a new version of Grace to test. This is a partnership with Fantasy Fitnessing, Fantasy Sports Games for CrossFit and All the WODS the most complete competition WOD database. fantasyfitnessing.com allthewods.com ..read more