An innovative method created in the 1970s and now a sport practiced by millions of people around the world
SASSARI. Crossfit is an ever-growing discipline around the world. Today there are more or less 15 thousand boxes, gyms, and over 3.5 million practitioners in the world. It brings together a series of disciplines: gymnastics, weightlifting, running, but also swimming, rowing, cycling. A sport that was born in the 70s created by Greg Glassman, but which knows a global boom only in 2008. For years it has been defined as the training of the US marines. Because it has the ability to tone the body, increase muscle mass and endurance. Precisely for its effectiveness and also for its essentiality it was chosen by the American special forces as a training method. But Crossfit is also sociability, in the pits a strong bond is created between athletes, and it has its strength precisely in being accessible to all. There are athletes who are over 70 years old and also many disabled people have found in this discipline an opportunity to do high-impact physical activity.
Crossfit is a training philosophy that goes against the trend of the traditional one. In the gyms you work in isolation, the same exercises are repeated on the individual muscles with the machines. In crossfit the muscle bands work together, spartan tools are used: barbells, ropes, bars, weights, Kettelbel, rings, medicine balls.
Strength is trained, but also endurance and agility. Games Open are organized every year. They are the largest fitness competition in the world, because all athletes can register and can participate. Over a period of five weeks, crossfitters from all over the globe participate in one big circuit. The results of the “workout of the day” are recorded on an online platform. The best are found in a second stage live. They compete to determine who among them is “the fittest man on earth”, the fittest man on the planet. A competition that has increasingly become a media event and not just a sporting one.
But the crossfit races in recent years have multiplied. In every corner of the planet you can find competitions in which many fans can compete.
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