Dimensions
140 x 210 x 20mm
Embracing the Suck: A CrossFit Memoir is a very personal narrative of 12 months spent in the crucible of the fastest growing fitness regimen in the world.
CrossFit's stripped-down, high intensity combination of aerobic activity, weightlifting, calisthenics and gymnastics is taught at more than 7,000 gyms around the world to more than one million athletes. But what's crazier? The fact that such a grueling regimen-visits from Pukey the Clown during workouts are applauded-is so popular, or the people who pay good money to do it?
In Embracing the Suck, the author details the year he spent trying to perfect all the skills a dedicated Crossfitter should have, while exploring the culture of the sport by visiting gyms (boxes) around the country, becoming a CrossFit coach, and confronting some basic questions about himself, his athletic past and limitations, and why something so hard, so sometimes awful, can be at once beautiful, funny, frustrating and rewarding.
