If your relationship with CrossFit goes back further than a few years, you might know the name Mike Boyle. Boyle is a professional strength and conditioning coach who publicly criticized CrossFit in 2008, claiming CrossFit workouts would “traumatize” shoulders and “destroy lumbar disks.” He compared CrossFit training to beating a client with a baseball bat and “trying to pass that off as training” (The Strength Coach Podcast, episode 19.5). He is also infamous for coming out against the barbell squat. Recently, he was interviewed for a […]

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Coca-Cola has pledged to make its health organization funding transparent, but it has not yet followed through on its promise. The soda company appears to have failed to reveal payments it made to the National Physical Activity Plan around 2012. This calls into question whether Coca-Cola is truly committed to transparency. Furthermore, it raises the question: why did the National Physical Activity Plan and its organizer, the ACSM, refrain from correcting Coca-Cola’s database? Coca-Cola’s “Transparency” database alleges only two donations to the NPAP in the 2010-2015 […]

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