Monday, November 29, 2010

Nice CF Write Up

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/01/AR2010110106050.html
"There's "weightlifting" and "weight lifting." The latter is just picking up heavy stuff, but the former is an internationally recognized sport that dominated the workout world in the early 20th century."
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So why the shift away from a total-body technique that's pretty much guaranteed to make you run faster, jump higher and get stronger? "What works usually sells," Haff says. "But it's a lot of work."
To stage a comeback, weightlifting needed an army of advocates who not only didn't mind the challenge, but relished it. And it seems to have found that through CrossFit, a 15-year-old methodology for producing well-rounded athletes that's found huge success among law enforcement, the military and, these days, the general population."

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