What Is Fitness?

What Is Fitness and Who Is Fit?

Outside Magazine once crowned triathlete Mark Allen "the fittest man on earth." If he's the fittest of the fit, was decathlete Simon Poelman — with superior strength, power, speed, and coordination — somehow less fit? Definitions from dictionaries and even leading exercise-physiology texts don't fully capture what fitness entails.

CrossFit's Perspective For CrossFit, promoting a fitness program without clearly defining the outcome would be both problematic and unhelpful, so the community offers its own working definition of fitness that considers multiple physical skills — not just endurance.

To continue exploring CrossFit's approach to defining fitness, keep reading the full article.