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Podcast: Get With The Programming
Episode: Fan Service #02 - Adam Klink and the fabled 5 min Mile and 500# Back Squat
Description: The year is 2002.. the "Foundations" journal article has been written and the World is introduced to CrossFit's definition of "Fringe Athletes". Athletes who's fitness demands are so specialized as to be inconsistent with the adaptations that give maximum competency at all physical challenges. In the Level 1 Seminar Lecture "What is CrossFit?" an example was used in a diagram of two "Fringe Athletes": The World Record Back Squat (Ray Williams 1,080#) and on the other side of the spectrum the World Record Marathon (Eliud Kipchoge, 2:01:18). In the middle of these two incredible athletes was a mythological "CrossFit Athlete" who w...