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When CrossFit workouts are at their best, they challenge your mind as much as your muscles. They push you to grind out rep after rep, battle fatigue, and utilize fitness tactics-and they very often ...

CAMBRIDGE — If you’ve never seen CrossFit, in all its heavy-lifting, grunt-inducing, sweat-pooling glory, then imagine a workout designed by sadists for masochists. I first saw the fitness ...

Learning proper technique and form for deadlifts and push jerks was on the evening's agenda. The self-described "stickler to form" kept a careful watch on his beginners, offering helpful suggestions. ...

The sun was shining, the birds were chirping, and the day seemed just perfect. So why was Nick – the intern working on opening his own CrossFit gym in Goleta – so despondent? One word. One name, ...

CrossFit is a fitness company and exercise philosophy founded by Greg Glassman in 2000. Its routines incorporate high-intensity interval training, Olympic weightlifting, plyometrics, powerlifting, ...

Dan Staton admits that he first thought the CrossFit workouts were “insane” and not applicable to the general population. Further study showed it to “line up with my science,” he added. “When you walk ...

Move over, Olympics: the CrossFit Open, which has been touted as one of the largest sporting events on Earth, has officially begun. During the five-week competition, 500,000 participants ranging from ...

When CrossFit workouts are at their best, they challenge your mind as much as your muscles. They push you to grind out rep after rep, battle fatigue, and utilize fitness tactics-and they very often ...