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Article: ULTRAFIT; Fit to be CrossFit; Touted as an ultimate workout -- and popular with police forces and military teams -- a regimen invented in the 1980s is being embraced by average exercisers.(VARIETY)(ULTRAFIT)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
- Article date:
- June 8, 2009
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Byline: STEPHEN REGENOLD
Black ink on a dry-erase board outlined the workout of the day. Sally Rodgers -- 48, a mother of four -- stood still with eyes glazed. She breathed hard, waiting for the pain to begin again.
"Ready, and go!" shouted Damian Hirtz, owner of CrossFit Minnesota, an Eden Prairie gym based in an industrial park off Hwy. 169.
Wind tore through an open garage door. Rock music pumped from a radio. Rodgers was jumping on and off a 2-foot-tall wooden box, her face red, laboring to blast through eight rounds of prescribed pain.
It was a Wednesday evening in late May. I'd come to try a workout with Rodgers and a dozen other ...