CrossFit Part 3: The Business and Diet

We're wrapping up our series on becoming a CrossFit trainer with a breakdown of how one gets certified and what a career path might look like. Is starting your own gym as easy as we've made it sound? 

There's also a loud detour into the certification reading material where we assess the validity of Greg Glassman's views on diet. Sean yells a lot in this episode... 


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Sources for this week's episode:

Podcast

Barbell Medicine Podcast. Episode #155: All Things Crossfit. Oct. 11, 2021. 

Web

https://www.crossfit.com/

https://drsears.com/

https://assets.crossfit.com/pdfs/certifications/CCFT_CandidateHandbook.pdf

http://crossfitykv.com/

https://smagazineofficial.com/uncategorized/what-crossfit-really-feels-like-05317153

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CrossFit

https://www.maxim.com/maxim-man/crossfit-greg-glassman-exclusive-2015-9/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6505252/

https://abcnews.go.com/blogs/health/2013/09/26/crossfit-can-the-popular-extreme-workout-be-dangerous/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6201188/

Are Injuries More Common With CrossFit Training Than Other Forms of Exercise? in: Journal of Sport Rehabilitation Volume 27 Issue 3 (2018) (humankinetics.com)

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/10/greg-glassman-crossfit-ceo-resigns-george-floyd-protest-coronavirus-tweets-conspiracy-theories

https://www.newyorker.com/sports/sporting-scene/does-crossfit-have-a-future

https://www.webmd.com/diet/a-z/zone-what-it-is

https://zonediet.com/the-zone-diet/

https://www.diabetes.org.uk/guide-to-diabetes/managing-your-diabetes/hba1c

https://www.crossfitfortify.com/how-much-do-crossfit-trainers-make