CrossFit: enough to make one vomit

CrossFit: the new fitness craze has a lot to tell us about late western capitalism | Eleanor Robertson | Comment is free | theguardian.com: "If you're the kind of person who keeps abreast of fitness trends or is at all interested in rubbernecking at the absurd extremes of human behaviour, you've probably heard of CrossFit. CrossFit, according to the official description, is "constantly varied functional movements executed at high intensity across broad modal and time domains". This is CrossFit speak for "running, jumping, and lifting things until you vomit or make it through to a higher astral plane based on the mind-cleansing properties of extreme pain".

Back in the day if you wanted to get fit, all you had to do was throw on some Howard-style trackie dacks and take the dog down the park to scare some children. But since the exercise revolution of the 1970s and 1980s, we've seen a succession of hilarious fitness trends. "



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