We graded 26 years of CrossFit workouts, almost 7,000 of them

A question coaches argue about

Is a training program balanced? Does it skip anything? Most answers are opinion. We wanted an answer with a number behind it, for the coaches at our own gym, Persistence Athletics in Seattle.

CrossFit has posted a workout of the day on crossfit.com since 2001. That is a long, public record of training. So we built WOD Intel to read all of it.

What it reads

On October 29 the dashboard counted 6,993 workouts across 26 years. It also counts 508 hero workouts, 752 benchmarks, 1,210 named workouts and 2,246 rest days.

Every morning, the new workout is read and sorted by movement, length and load. Then every score is worked out again, so the numbers are always current.

The same data feeds more than twenty views, all free and public: the ten physical skills, push, pull and squat, energy systems, work capacity, a movement map, movement pairs, a timeline of when each movement first appeared, era by era and year by year, and a workout decoder.

A report card for a training program

The Report Card grades the record from A+ to F on six things: variety, balance, coverage, push and pull, skills and energy. Each grade comes with a short note a coach can read in seconds.

On October 29 the whole record scored an overall GPA of 3.60 out of 4.30, an A. Variety scored an A. Balance scored a B, with “minor gaps in some movement patterns.”

A separate page, What's Missing, lists those gaps. It flags movement patterns that show up far less than average. Core work, for example, appears at 29% of the average for a movement pattern. A coach who reads that knows what to add.

The Games, event by event

WOD Intel also holds the Games Almanac: every individual event in CrossFit Games history, from 2007 to 2026. It covers 241 events across 20 Games and 103 movements.

Linking the two records turned up something coaches like to know. 39 of those 103 Games movements never showed up in a daily workout. They only live on the Games floor.

For the Games we also built a Capacity Score: one number for how much work an athlete did across all events. Each athlete is scored by their share of the best result in each event, so athletes from different years can be compared on one fair scale. Where the data has gaps, the score says so.

Before the 2026 Games we used the same data to project the field with no opinions in it: first for the full field of 81 athletes, then rebuilt for the locked field of 60.

How we built it

• One AI research agent collected each Games year from public sources. A second agent checked every claim against the first. Where sources disagreed, we kept both and left a note. We did not guess.
• A build script cleaned movement names, so one movement has one name everywhere. It then linked each Games movement to the daily workouts that use it.
• The site is built with React, TypeScript, Three.js and Recharts, and a scheduled job refreshes the data every day.

WOD Intel is free to use. It is an independent project, not linked to CrossFit, the company. The same method can grade any set of training, or any other pile of records a business keeps.

Try it at wod.persistenceathletics.com.