REBECCA DUBE
From Friday's Globe and Mail
January 11, 2008 at 8:36 AM EST
READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE HERE
What is left to say? "Read the article to see how an internet phenomenon has become the latest fitness craze." Just like any other fad (Ab-roller, Jazzercise, Body By Jake, Super-slow reps...) those of us who have worked in this business for any length of time will see it come and go. That's not to say that it will not help some people improve their fitness and reach their goals - it will. It will also discourage and even injure others. What is the lesson here? The lesson is to distill out of this craze the essential element which helps motivate people to get off their butts and push themselves harder than they have before, to see what about this system helps people attain those goals that they long for.
Check out Crossfit's website HERE
Is this a cult of personality? A reverence for an exercise Messiah? Not really. Besides the fact that the whole thing might have started with one guy, it has grown to become an underground sensation, with hundreds of small gyms, "certified" trainers and reverent disciples...
I think that the accessability and the "hardcore" ethos combined with the daily workout variety combine to create an exercise mode which lets people feel like the rebel that they long to be. Since the days of the American revolution, the privateers and even more so since James Dean's "Rebel Without a Cause", Americans (and to a great extent Canadians as well) have longed to step outside the rules of everyday society (without facing the consequences of course). This new training method allows them to express that rebellion by training in bare-bones facilities (like the Bat Cave) without the rules of traditional fitness centres and gyms.
Power to the revolution! Viva la revolución! Vive la révolution!
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