This is an installment of Good Fit, a column about exercise. I took my first CrossFit Kids class when I was 10 years old, the summer between fifth and sixth grade. I remember a circuit that involved ...

There was something unusual about the gym I had just arrived at in Long Island City. Each kettle bell could fit in the palm of my hand. The stacks of tires appeared to have come from regular-sized ...

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Climbing rope, crab-walking, crossing monkey bars, jumping rope, doing sit-ups and pull-ups. At times it looks like what you’d do on a playground or in a gym class at school. But it’s CrossFit Kids, a ...

SOUTH MIAMI (CBS4) -- Childhood obesity continues to be a problem for children in South Florida and across America. Studies show that childhood obesity has more than tripled in the past 30 years which ...

The thought of kids swinging kettle bells, climbing ropes and pumping out push-ups in a CrossFit gym can be confusing—shouldn’t 10-year-olds be frolicking on a jungle gym or playing tee-ball instead ...

The CrossFit workout has been increasing in popularity in recent years. Now, gyms in cities including Los Angeles, New York City and Chicago are teaching the strength training fitness technique to ...

The CrossFit craze is spreading to some of Clark County’s youngest residents. Kids who have watched their parents get in shape through the program are now trying CrossFit themselves. But they’re not ...

Even wearing just a pair of orange shorts and orange sneakers, Josh Levy was dripping sweat through his dirty blond curls as he struggled to do another rep. “Go, Josh!” cheered his fans, who angled ...

“Butts in the air!” shouts CrossFit Chantilly cofounder Mary Miller. About a dozen kids lined up along the glass wall at the front of the gym bend over to touch their palms to the ground, stick their ...