Washingtonian

Are Women in CrossFit Too Bulky?

Googling “CrossFit” can be just as dangerous to one’s psyche as Googling one’s health symptoms. Photos and videos pop up of seriously ripped men and women with bulging, veiny muscles heaving ...
BMJ

Pelvic floor muscle training in female functional fitness exercisers: an assessor-blinded randomised controlled trial

Objective Stress urinary incontinence (SUI) is common among females during functional fitness training, such as CrossFit. The aim of this study was to assess the effect of pelvic floor muscle training ...
Yahoo

CrossFit star Sara Sigmundsdottir started the sport to lose weight - now she eats 3,000 calories a day to keep her muscles

Icelandic CrossFit athlete Sara Sigmundsdottir initially took up the sport to "lose weight and get a boyfriend." She hated having muscles at first, but has since learned to love her strong physique.
Business Insider

I used to be scared of lifting weights but seeing so many ripped women at the CrossFit semi-finals inspired me to get stronger

I went to the CrossFit London semi-finals, Strength in Depth, to watch elite athletes compete. What struck me most was how normal it was to be muscular, both among professionals and spectators. As a ...
Orange County Register

Marines, athletes, grandparents flex their muscle at CrossFit

Ladera Ranch residents Jimi and Madeline Letchford and Aliso Viejo residents and Nick and Britne Bernatowicz opened their first CrossFit box in Laguna Hills in 2007. They did it because they were ...
Business Insider

American women are scared to be strong but it's the norm in Iceland, says the Icelandic former 'world's fittest woman,' who trained in the US for 8 years

CrossFit athlete Katrin Davidsdottir has trained in both the US and Iceland, where she grew up. Davidsdottir told Insider she found fitness culture for women to be very different in both countries. In ...