In 2024, a new competition and fitness festival, TYR Wodapalooza SoCal, was held on Huntington Beach in California.

[5][6][7] The competition is named after "WOD" or CrossFit's "Workout of the Day",[8] while "palooza" denotes a festival or large-scale event.

[18] The 2022 event featured the biggest prize purse yet with the elite individual winners receiving $100,000, up from $50,000 the previous competition.

[3] In 2015, Wodapalooza became the first major functional fitness competition to offer an adaptive division for athletes with disabilities and impairement.

In 2020, the event was moved from January of previous years to February, and there was no competition for elite teams of three.

[25] Wodapalooza announced a change to its format for the 2023 event, with elite individual athletes competing over two days on Thursday and Friday, and the elite teams competing over the final two days on Saturday and Sunday.

[29][30] Wodapalooza also announced that a second competition would be added on the west coast, to be held September 20–22, 2024 in Huntington Beach in California.

[33] Due to the limitation on spectator capacity at Bayfront park, the location of the festival was moved to Miami Beach, Florida in 2025.

[34] From 2012 to 2024, Wodapalooza was held at the Bayfront Park fronting Biscayne Bay in Miami.

The events are typically combinations of various CrossFit-type movements in weightlifting, gymnastics and monostructural workouts.