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Muscle & Fitness – The Crossfit Filthy Fifty Video!
As I stagger ignominiously from station to station at Petranek Fitness in Santa Monica, California–my lungs screaming for recuperative oxygen, my palms blistering before my eyes–it’s the whiteboard that pushes me harder, farther, heavier. Whatever pride I walked in with has long since been crushed by a pathetic, labored set of 50 pull-ups. Sweat is literally pouring from my brow, the sting rendering my eyes tear-gas red.
One foot in front of the other–it’s work as I plod toward a 95-pound barbell. As I make an effort to find a steady pace on my thrusters (front squats with an overhead press at the top), I get light-headed and drop the bar.
FindArticles – Sweat storm: a growing fitness sensation, CrossFit—the system that takes functional training to the extreme—isn’t for the weak. Follow along as an M & F staffer plunges into the fray
Muscle & Fitness, May, 2008, by Eric Velazquez
