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CrossFit, America's high school weight room for adults, is suing the National Strength and Conditioning Association for publishing a study it says is "based on data that is objectively false" and "intended to scare participants away from CrossFit."The study, published in November by the NSCA's Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, is titled "Crossfit-based high intensity power training improves maximal aerobic fitness and body composition." Researchers from Ohio State's kinesology department examined the changes that occurred in a group of 54 CrossFit participants (all of whom, amazingly, were on a paleo diet) over 10 weeks, concluding that subjects lost body fat and increased their VO2 max, or oxygen consumption. But they also included one sentence that has become the center of the suit:QuoteOf the 11 subjects who dropped out of the training program, two cited time concerns with the remaining nine subjects (16% of total recruited subjects) citing overuse or injury for failing to complete the program and finish follow up testing. CrossFit claims that the study was "at best the result of sloppy and scientifically unreliable work, and at worst a complete fabrication." They sought out the nine members of the study, they say. "Those participants denied reporting that they failed to finish because of injuries. Indeed, those participants asserted that they had not been in contact with Mr. Devor and his team at all regarding their reasons for not completing the study, or regarding injuries in general."
Of the 11 subjects who dropped out of the training program, two cited time concerns with the remaining nine subjects (16% of total recruited subjects) citing overuse or injury for failing to complete the program and finish follow up testing.
When CrossFit denied our request to cover the 2014 CrossFit Games, we decided to look into the organization's long history of bullying anyone who dares to ask the hard questions—or look too closely."Outside Online has published headlines and articles about CrossFit and the CrossFit Games that lead us to question Outside Magazine and Outside Online's editorial intentions," said the email from CrossFit Press, which arrived after we reached out to Greene. Denying our press pass is like the NFL writing, "Dear ESPN, We can't let you cover the Super Bowl, because you covered the traumatic-brain-injury concerns of NFL players." By CrossFit's logic, every major media outlet in the United States should be blackballed, from the New York Times to USA Today, because we've all covered CrossFit injuries. Deadspin must certainly be on CrossFit's s*** list after publishing this gem about the NSCA debacle:QuoteIt exposes the fitness company far more effectively than the NSCA study ever did. In the lawsuit, all of CrossFit's neuroses emerge, as does its inner asshole.The press-pass rejection not only made CrossFit look thin-skinned, it also made it look like the company has something to hide. And barring journalists from something is about the best way to ensure they'll pursue a story. On Thursday evening, I bought a $50 pass to Friday's CrossFit Games and went to see the competition for myself.
It exposes the fitness company far more effectively than the NSCA study ever did. In the lawsuit, all of CrossFit's neuroses emerge, as does its inner asshole.
Joshua Newman, until last month a co-owner of CrossFit NYC, which says it is the world’s largest box, recalled a member in the gym’s early days who was nicknamed “Welcoming Committee.”“He’d put the moves on every single attractive female who walked through the door,” Mr. Newman said. “He basically got drummed out after the point where the first dozen women he dated would warn off the next bunch of arrivals.” He added: “I think probably the birth of Team Dangerous at some core level does come from this idea of not dating people you’re going to have to see all the time — like not dating someone in your apartment building. Every New Yorker knows not to do that.”Perhaps more than disciples of any other type of exercise, people who participate in CrossFit can’t help being drawn to people who do the same. This is partly because the exercise regimen inspires near-religious devotion, along with in-jokes (Q: How do CrossFitters do aerobics? A: They lift weights faster.); partly because the program has so many types of moves and workouts that it can be discussed for hours (“You need someone who understands the pain,” said Sharifa Dunn, 26, a Reebok CrossFit Fifth Avenue member who was at the bar night); and partly because so many adherents follow the Paleo diet, which forbids grains and dairy.Continue reading the main storyAt a beach share last summer, “two guys went to Costco and bought the equivalent of a cow, a pig, 50 fish and a lot of tequila, and we knew everybody would be happy with that,” said Julie Clow, 39, who frequently attends Team Dangerous events. (Tequila is considered the most Paleo-friendly of all alcohol.)
Litigation-loving CrossFit has made a name for itself by suing the balls off anyone that messes with its "brand." Now one CF gym in West Palm Beach is finding out how the other shoe fits after Nike, Inc. has filed an action against the gym for blatantly ripping of its Jordan logo.To be fair, CrossFit CityPlace did modify the logo—they turned it upside down, and claim that the man is not Jordan; he is in fact gym owner Matt Brewster balancing upside down on a kettle bell circa 2011.The Jordan or "Jumpman" logo came from an SI photoshoot in 1984, and was adopted in 1985.In the best bit of bullshit this Friday, Brewster is "astonished" at Nike's suit, according the Palm Beach Post, and claims—believes?—the images are not at all similar.
A blasphemy! Old Philly Punks, do you know what this used to be? I saw The Damned here in '82.
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