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Fantasy Functional Fitness Podcast. Covering the CrossFit Games season from the open to the games. Athlete Analysis and fantasy forecasting.
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In this week's Fran Lung news, we cover the two teams that were announced from CrossFit Invictus.The headlining CrossFit Invictus, and reigning Fittest Team on earth brings back Joshua Al-Chamaa and Devyn Kin, and adds Chandler Smith and Lauren Fisher.CrossFit Invictus Unconquerable, the 28th place team from the 2023 CrossFit Games is also back with athletes Emilty Rethwill and Jessi Smith, along with new additions Roland Goldbaum and Phillip Muscarella.The 2024 CrossFit Open announcements ar...
Welcome to the Fran Lung News. The easiest way to stay up to date in the world of the CrossFit Games. Hit subscribe so you don't miss a thing.This week CrossFit Invictus announced their first team of the 2024 season. The CrossFit affiliate with the reigning fittest team on earth, sent three teams in 2023. In this view we take a look at CrossFit Invictus Unbroken, and it's athletes, Jenn Ryan, Lauren Stallwood, Sean Early, Tyler Soderback.More announcements for the 2024...
Freestanding Handstand holds first hit the elite CrossFit competition world at the 2020 CrossFit Games, and since then we have seen it at least twice more. First at 2023 Wodapalooza and more recently at 2024 Fittest Experience.With handstand holds filtering down to lower level CrossFit competitions, how have the time evolved from the best in the world to competitions where only 25% of the athletes attended a CrossFit Semifinal in 2023.Check out the competition results and event pages on...
The Fran Lung Show is back for 2024 with some CrossFit Games news.Super Teams are being announced with a couple this week and in this episode we'll dive in and learn more about the teams.Mayhem Thunder is comprised of 4 former individual Games athletes from Australia, Kara Saunders, Khan Porter, James Newbury and Emily De Rooy.https://newsletter.franlung.com/2024/02/01/introducing-mayhem-thunder/CrossFit Walleye was announced with a team of Jamie Simmonds, Mia Hesketh, Elliot Simmonds and Kri...
James Newbury enters the Torian Pro in the first heat after finishing 27th in quarterfinals. There is more to his performance than meets the eye. We take a deeper dive into Newbury’s Quarterfinals performance, how he stacks up to the rest of the field, and what his chances of a Games ticket are.All data used for the Analytics is available at the Fran Lung Patreon page.patreon.com/FranLungAnalytics
Dave and Katharine built Fantasy Fitnessing and decided to bring out the centralized database from behind the fantasy sports side of CrossFit for the masses to use at FranLung.com. The power of the database can be used for reporting which is what we have now launched at patreon.com/FranLungAnalyticsGive it a listen to see how and why we have built Creator Packages and go check them out.
We take a look at up and coming CrossFit athlete Victor Hoffer. He finished 3rd in Europe during Quarterfinals, but does the 20 year old have what it takes to make it to the Games? We take a look at his progression through offseason events, and how they will stack up against the Semifinal field.
CrossFit Quarterfinals are done, and the teams are finalized for Semifinals. What does being the top seed in a Semifinal mean for CrossFit East Nashville PRVN or CrossFit Invictus?To help answer that question we take a look back to 2022 and see how top seeds like CrossFit Mayhem Freedom and CrossFit Oslo Navy Blue did in their semifinals.
If you have been watching the CrossFit Games quarterfinals leaderboard this year, you have probably seen Katelin Van Zyl's name near the top.1st in Oceania Quarterfinals17th in World Wide Quarterfinals25 in the CrossFit OpenWe wanted to learn more about her past CrossFit career so dove into the details.franlung.com@franlunganalytics
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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 ha...
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'...
At the elite level of CrossFit there are limited opportunities to gain experience in the competition floor, which is why the offseason can be so important to developing athletes. Have European athletes gain an advantage over the rest of the field this offseason?
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/fantasyfitnessingIf you want a deep dive into the stats, check out our patreon www.patreon.com/fantasyfitnessingAnd make sure you get your fantasy teams in for wodapalooza. You can play for free on www.fantasyfit...
Dave and Katharine run through their fantasy teams and how their teams did.They breakdown:The most selected athletes in the salary cap gameTop performers by salary bracketWhat the perfect team would have looked likeThen 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
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 competitio...
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