{"id":11687,"date":"2024-08-22T07:00:18","date_gmt":"2024-08-22T07:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=11687"},"modified":"2024-08-22T11:23:29","modified_gmt":"2024-08-22T11:23:29","slug":"an-athlete-died-at-the-crossfit-games-what-does-this-mean-for-the-exercise-craze-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=11687","title":{"rendered":"An Athlete Died at the Crossfit Games. What Does This Mean for the Exercise Craze?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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CrossFit has found success as a training exercise for everyone. But the CrossFit Games may tell a different story.<\/p>\n

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The atmosphere at the closing ceremony of the CrossFit Games last week at the Dickies Arena, a 14,000-seat venue in Fort Worth, was decidedly solemn.<\/p>\n

Ordinarily a triumphant moment for the men and women named the \u201cfittest on earth\u201d after participating in a four-day competition involving grueling feats of physical strength and endurance, the festivities this year were overshadowed by the death of a competitor on the first day of the contest. Lazar Dukic, a 28-year-old athlete from Serbia, died<\/a> during an 800-meter open-water swim in Marine Creek Lake.<\/p>\n

Mr. Dukic\u2019s death was the first in the 17-year history of the Games. His death has raised many concerns, some longstanding, about the safety of CrossFit as both a workout regimen and a high-level athletic competition. <\/p>\n

When Greg Glassman, a personal trainer and a former gymnast, founded CrossFit in the mid 1990s, he took an approach to exercise that was radically different from the bench presses and dumbbell curls that prevailed at gyms at the time. His methodology combined elements of Olympic weight lifting and gymnastics with movements involving kettlebells, rowing machines and skipping ropes \u2014 a program of \u201cconstantly varied, high-intensity functional fitness,\u201d as Mr. Glassman originally described it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Early fans of CrossFit\u2019s workouts included members of law enforcement and the military, associating it with grit and mental toughness. Mr. Glassman did not exactly stifle that perception: Speaking about CrossFit to The New York Times<\/a> in 2005, he said, \u201cIf the notion of falling off the rings and breaking your neck is so foreign to you, then we don\u2019t want you in our ranks.\u201d<\/p>\n

But part of CrossFit\u2019s appeal was that the workouts, though sometimes extremely demanding, could be adapted to accommodate almost anyone: while one athlete might be asked to jump onto a 30-inch box, another could step onto a raised platform, achieving the same stimulus with different intensity.<\/p>\n

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CrossFit has found success as a training exercise for everyone. But the CrossFit Games may tell a different story.The atmosphere at the closing ceremony of the CrossFit Games last week at the Dickies Arena, a 14,000-seat venue in Fort Worth, was decidedly solemn.Ordinarily a triumphant moment for the men and women named the \u201cfittest on earth\u201d after participating in a four-day competition involving grueling feats of physical strength and endurance, the festivities this year were overshadowed by the death of a competitor on the first day of the contest. Lazar Dukic, a 28-year-old athlete from Serbia, died during an 800-meter open-water swim in Marine Creek Lake.Mr. Dukic\u2019s death was the first in the 17-year history of the Games. His death has raised many concerns, some longstanding, about the safety of CrossFit as both a workout regimen and a high-level athletic competition. When Greg Glassman, a personal trainer and a former gymnast, founded CrossFit in the mid 1990s, he took an approach to exercise that was radically different from the bench presses and dumbbell curls that prevailed at gyms at the time. His methodology combined elements of Olympic weight lifting and gymnastics with movements involving kettlebells, rowing machines and skipping ropes \u2014 a program of \u201cconstantly varied, high-intensity functional fitness,\u201d as Mr. Glassman originally described it.Early fans of CrossFit\u2019s workouts included members of law enforcement and the military, associating it with grit and mental toughness. Mr. Glassman did not exactly stifle that perception: Speaking about CrossFit to The New York Times in 2005, he said, \u201cIf the notion of falling off the rings and breaking your neck is so foreign to you, then we don\u2019t want you in our ranks.\u201dBut part of CrossFit\u2019s appeal was that the workouts, though sometimes extremely demanding, could be adapted to accommodate almost anyone: while one athlete might be asked to jump onto a 30-inch box, another could step onto a raised platform, achieving the same stimulus with different intensity.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11664,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11687"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11689,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11687\/revisions\/11689"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}