Books & more: In the box

CrossFit® is certainly nothing new now, and maybe we're all a bit overwhelmed by it, but it's still worth exploring. Especially because CrossFit is actually a non-conforming sports culture - all the information you want about it, you can get from their homepage and their journal - it's exciting to get something in your hands that is really worth reading.

Even we thought at the beginning that it was just trendy literature for making money. It's not. T.J. Murphy is an experienced American sports journalist who comes from a background in running. He led his battered body to CrossFit when he could hardly walk anymore, and personally experienced what this training did to him: it helped. But he doesn't just describe that, he also shows the history and development of CrossFit, talks about training planning, how a box (CF's term for a gym) functions, how one should eat.

How his encounters with Fran went. An excellent book that you read with benefit and entertainment. Whether a beginner or an old hand: here you really learn a lot about CrossFit and gain a good understanding of the phenomenon and its development.

“In der Box: Wie CrossFit® das Training revolutionierte und mir einen völlig neuen Körper verlieh“ by T. J. Murphy, Riva Verlag, 2013, 225 pages, Euro 16.99