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BENJAMIN BENSCHNEIDER / THE SEATTLE TIMES
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Thursday, June 4, 2009

CrossFit becomes an international fitness phenom with its brutal online workouts

Part of the CrossFit culture is to push yourself — hard. Individual workout stats are posted, so everyone can see who's tops (and who's not.) But there's also true camaraderie, and members routinely cheer each other to personal bests, as they do here taking turns rowing 80 rounds of all-out 20-second bursts.