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CrossFit Founder Greg Glassman speaks to Level 1 participants on Sept. 3, 2017, in Aromas, California. “We sit collectively in unique possession of an elegant solution to the world’s most vexing problem. And it may be so elegant that it’s optimal,” Glassman says. CrossFit® - Forging Elite Fitness® (http://crossfit.com) The CrossFit Games® - The Sport of Fitness™ The Fittest On Earth™

Transcript You haven't heard of CrossFit? Let me tell you about CrossFit. CrossFit is a lifestyle in which you are prioritizing your health. The ability to do many different things at a high level of intensity. I think it's the absolute best way to help you reach your fitness goals. For me, it's making me happy. A fun way to get fit with a lot of people. The last person finishing is the just as important as the first one. It's this team atmosphere that ends up making you better as an individual. It's camaraderie, that family that you end up building and the energy that you get back from it yourself, that's CrossFit to me. You come to a CrossFit gym everybody knows your name, everybody loves you and you're a part of something bigger than just getting a workout. CrossFit gave me that something extra that I kinda needed in life. It's my outlet, I love it. It's my passion. It's commitment. CrossFit is a sport now. I like the challenge, I compete with myself, I'm healthier, I am stronger. Even though I was sore, I was, you know, getting a little discouraged, you know ... I felt accountable because my community, or I felt accountable to my class because they were looking for me there. Finding CrossFit and then having to work really dang hard for whatever your goal is ... whether its to compete or just get a damn pull-up. I love it 'cause the workout's different everyday, I can come in and I don't know what I'm doing. Everyone is welcoming, everyone is cheering you on. They don't let you quit even if you wanna quit. We all share this experience, which is emotional. It doesn't look emotional, it looks like people working out ... but it's emotional. I mean it's raw, it's intense, it's incredible, it's freakin' awesome. I'm gonna keep doing it for a long time, I hope. CrossFit, to me, is a fitness program where the reward for doing well is the ability to express your fitness in everyday life in as many different planes or as many different activities that you can possibly imagine. People walk through the door and say, 'Hey, where's all the machines?' We're the machines!

The CrossFit Journal -- (http://journal.crossfit.com) If you ask 100 people to define beauty, you'll get 100 different answers. Most will falter and offer descriptions instead. CrossFit athletes are now rejecting previous definitions of beauty and putting forth their own, a definition researched and confirmed in every workout and every rep. "There are people who spend their entire lives allowing the reflection in the mirror to determine their self-esteem, submitting to a cultural judgment established decades ago. But in CrossFit gyms all over the world, mirrors are conspicuous by their absence. Fitness is gauged in reps, in speed, power, virtuosity. And beauty is measured in joy. And in pride," says narrator Marty Cej. CrossFit presents a new aesthetic based on function, performance and confidence. "I love the way that CrossFitters look because it's just so real," says three-time CrossFit Games competitor Ruth Anderson Horrell, pointing to an aesthetic that's born of a relentless pursuit of work capacity and the inner strength that comes from achieving it. "It's beautiful to be fit, but I think ... anyone who carries themselves with confidence will be beautiful," says Michele Letendre. Four-time Games competitor Austin Malleolo agrees: "If you want to look good, do stuff well, and do what life demands of you, and everything else will fall into place." Video by Jon Gilbert and Marty Cej.