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Coming Soon — NF Sports’ new documentary series, “Making of a Champion,” which chronicles Mat Fraser’s journey through life and fitness as he trains to win the CrossFit Games again.
With your second cup of coffee…Watch Camille-Leblanc Bazinet try and eat a hard boiled egg (FUNNY).
FIRST GOAT YOGA, NOW GOAT-FIT?
A little while back, we shared a tidbit about something called Goat Yoga — which turns out to be an actual thing, and it’s not a fad just limited to this one Idaho farm. Is it strange? Certainly. Does it still embody the spirit of yoga? Most likely.
We didn’t actually think things could get any stranger, until this little tip arrived in our inbox last night. There’s a farm girl in Arizona who goes by DaNelle, claiming to have started Goat CrossFit, which we have renamed to GoatFit for obvious reasons.
Thankfully it’s not real, we think? You’ll either think this is super hilarious or super dumb, either way you’re going to have to watch it.
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WATCH: Beating Addiction Through Fitness
40 million Americans struggle with addiction, relapsing an average of seven times before breaking the cycle. Phoenix Multisport is a non-profit whose mission is to rescue people recovering from substance abuse through fitness. To date, more than 19,000 people have sought recovery through Phoenix’s free programs.
HERE’S THEIR STORY.
HEAR: Bouncing Back from an Injury
Jacob Heppner joins Brute Strength podcast to talk about the knee injury that caused him to withdraw from the 2017 CrossFit Open and what he’s doing to rehabilitate mentally and physically to prepare for next year.
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When you type “CrossFit” into a Google image search you get photo after photo of men, and a few women, with rippling muscles lifting a weight so large it almost looks fake.
They’re (almost) all white, and thin, and have no visible disabilities. This is the type of body most people likely associate with CrossFit. But CrossFit athlete Lindsay Hilton, who was born with no legs and no arms, wants everyone to know that people with physical disabilities can also be successful in an intense workout programme like CrossFit. (So can fat bodies, btw.)
Hilton is the subject of a new video from 60 Second Docs, in which she tells her story about living, and working out, with no limbs. “I’m not an inspiration,” she said in the video. “I’m just a regular person.”