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Area 3: The CrossFit Games
The competition started in 2007 primarily as a marketing gimmick to get normies interested in CrossFit and has been held every year since, normally in the summer. As mentioned before, Glassman never really cared about it and mostly turned over control of the competition to other people in CrossFit HQ. As the Games got more and more popular (peaking roughly in 2015), CrossFit HQ began devoting more and more resources to managing it and marketing it. An entire ecosystem of interconnected competitions developed that weren't managed directly by CrossFit HQ but were sometimes used to aid in the Games (which is the only competition directly run by HQ).
This led to the creation of the "CrossFit Athlete", which bares almost nothing in common with the average CrossFit person. Basically, "CrossFit" turned into a sport with its own unique rules and training styles that can't be cross-applied to other sports. You can't train to be professional Basketball Player and a professional CrossFit Athlete at the same time, even if the CrossFit methodology can help a Basketball player's general athleticism. These CrossFit Athletes are the roided folks you see getting pushed in CrossFit media.
Basically, there are two CrossFits now. Normie CrossFit and Professional CrossFit.
Area 3: The CrossFit Games
The competition started in 2007 primarily as a marketing gimmick to get normies interested in CrossFit and has been held every year since, normally in the summer. As mentioned before, Glassman never really cared about it and mostly turned over control of the competition to other people in CrossFit HQ. As the Games got more and more popular (peaking roughly in 2015), CrossFit HQ began devoting more and more resources to managing it and marketing it. An entire ecosystem of interconnected competitions developed that weren't managed directly by CrossFit HQ but were sometimes used to aid in the Games (which is the only competition directly run by HQ).
This led to the creation of the "CrossFit Athlete", which bares almost nothing in common with the average CrossFit person. Basically, "CrossFit" turned into a sport with its own unique rules and training styles that can't be cross-applied to other sports. You can't train to be professional Basketball Player and a professional CrossFit Athlete at the same time, even if the CrossFit methodology can help a Basketball player's general athleticism. These CrossFit Athletes are the roided folks you see getting pushed in CrossFit media.
Basically, there are two CrossFits now. Normie CrossFit and Professional CrossFit.
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