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CrossFit Can Help You Build Muscle And Lose Fat—And It Doesn't Have to Be Intimidating.

CrossFit is like cycle syncing and the Cloud: Most people have heard of it, but few people actually understand what it is. “The definition of CrossFit is constantly varied, functional movements, ...
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Pelvic floor muscle training in female functional fitness exercisers: an assessor-blinded randomised controlled trial

Objective Stress urinary incontinence (SUI) is common among females during functional fitness training, such as CrossFit. The aim of this study was to assess the effect of pelvic floor muscle training ...
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CrossFit star Sara Sigmundsdottir started the sport to lose weight - now she eats 3,000 calories a day to keep her muscles

Icelandic CrossFit athlete Sara Sigmundsdottir initially took up the sport to "lose weight and get a boyfriend." She hated having muscles at first, but has since learned to love her strong physique.
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I used to be scared of lifting weights but seeing so many ripped women at the CrossFit semi-finals inspired me to get stronger

I went to the CrossFit London semi-finals, Strength in Depth, to watch elite athletes compete. What struck me most was how normal it was to be muscular, both among professionals and spectators. As a ...
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One of CrossFit's fittest women says success gave her a sense of stability after a tough childhood

When Danielle Brandon's school friends asked about her family, she would lie and say her mom was dead. Until her late 20s, Brandon, who was born in a small city in Idaho, kept the details of her ...
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American women are scared to be strong but it's the norm in Iceland, says the Icelandic former 'world's fittest woman,' who trained in the US for 8 years

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I tried training with one of the fittest women in the world – it was like racing the Terminator

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CrossFit Can Help You Build Muscle And Lose Fat—And It Doesn't Have to Be Intimidating.

CrossFit is like cycle syncing and the Cloud: Most people have heard of it, but few people actually understand what it is. But unlike the IRL versions of these moves, in CrossFit, they are ...