The CrossFit Games: everything you need to know

The 8th annual CrossFit Games kick off on the 25th of July. Here's how to enjoy the sport of fitness from your house

Since the annual CrossFit Games were created in 2007 to let devotees of CrossFit - the training methodology that preaches 'constantly varied' workouts full of gymnastics moves, Olympic lifts, heavy lifting and intense cardio - test their training methods, they’ve gone from an open-to-all-comers event held on a ranch to a stadium-based spectator sport that claims to crown the fittest men and women on Earth. But how does it work? Who’s going to win? And are the competitors really that fit? Here’s everything you need to know.

How does the competition work?

It varies - massively. In the first year of the Games, there were three events. In 2009, there were eight, including a hilly 7km trail run and deadlift ladder. In 2012, the event started two days earlier than everyone (including the athletes) thought it would, with an off-road triathlon and a run through a military obstacle course, and finished five days later with a back-to-back run through three of crossfit.com’s signature workouts (Elizabeth, Isabel and Fran, which test everything from pull-ups to snatches). In line with CrossFit’s philosophy of testing the

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