Tom Ricks has won the Pulitzer prize twice, written five best-selling books on the military and foreign policy, and is a Senior Advisor at the New America Foundation. The American Society of Magazine Editors named Ricks’ ForeignPolicy.com blog, “Best Defense” the best blog on the internet in 2010. This week Tom Ricks’ blog covered cyber warfare, Cuba, Iraq, torture and … CrossFit? It’s not that much of a leap. Few would dispute that physical fitness is an essential component of military preparation. Yet the American […]

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Ohio State University appeared prominently in the press this year. Unfortunately, it wasn’t good press. Dr. Steven Devor’s study on CrossFit resulted in multiple lawsuits alleging that Devor fabricated data. Ohio State now has a hard choice: stand by Devor despite the mounting evidence and allegations, or fire him for scientific misconduct. This Sunday, Ohio State posted a job opening:  So Ohio State needs someone new to verify that its human researchers follow scientific protocols. For example, this person will make sure that the researchers […]

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On Feb. 1, 2003, CrossFit Founder and CEO Greg Glassman published “Seniors and Kids” in the CrossFit Journal. In that article, he wrote: “The most important consideration to make with kids and seniors is to be more patient, celebrate the small gains, work towards mastery of the mechanics of all moves, and practice ‘incrementalism’ – that is, establish a baseline of performance and gently, in tiny increments, move upward.” In 2005, CrossFit Inc. licensed Jeff and Mikki Martin, affiliate owners with a […]

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The NSCA’s Journal of Strength and Conditioning Resarch (JSCR) accepted a study earlier this year entitled The Nature and Prevalence of Injury During CrossFit Training, authored by Dr. Paul Hak. The JSCR published the study ahead of print, but we found a full copy and quickly discovered the study was fatally flawed in its unscientific conclusions about CrossFit. The full review can be read here. After discovering this error, I conducted an interview with Dr. Paul Hak in which he explained that one of the […]

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