Keep Fitness Legal | Defending the brand from junk science, yellow journalism, and invincible ignora

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Keep Fitness Legal Defending the brand from junk science, yellow journalism, and invincible ignorance Yesterday, CrossFit’s twitter account linked to an op-ed entitled EDITORIAL: New Jersey trying to make dietary advice illegal. Dietitians were quick to respond, criticizing both CrossFit and free speech in nutrition. One of those angry dietitians stood out: Robyn Flipse. The New Jersey-based dietitian issued an implicit threat: “Gyms dispensing misinformation about diet have a lot to lose if the licensure bill passes.” It is true that gyms that give dietary information “have a lot to lose” if states make [ ] Categories: Uncategorized Patricia Deuster and Francis O Connor are two exercise researchers who suffer from an enduring anti-CrossFit bias. Back in 2011, Deuster and O Connor joined William Kraemer of the NSCA, among others, to publish what has become known as the CHAMP paper. That paper labeled CrossFit an extreme conditioning program and linked it to a potential emerging problem of disproportionate musculoskeletal injury risk. The authors cited no evidence whatsoever to support their allegations, as Jeff Glassman demonstrated in his rebuttal in the [ ] Categories: Uncategorized How do you get your grandmother, coworker, dad, etc. to try CrossFit? Bring them to the box. Or have them try a highly scaled WOD at home. Admittedly, this can be challenging. There are a lot of misconceptions about CrossFit. So here’s a guide to debunking those common myths. “The news said CrossFit will kill me” You probably saw headlines like Outside Magazine’s “Is CrossFit Destroying the World” and “Is CrossFit Killing Us?” Outside based these outrageous headlines on a fake [ ] Categories: Uncategorized Earlier this year I noticed the National Strength and Conditioning Association was misrepresenting PepsiCo employee Jon-Kyle Davis as a university professor. So, on April 18, 2018, I sent the following letter to the National Strength and Conditioning Association. The NSCA did not respond. To this day, the NSCA still falsely reports that Davis is employed by the University of Montevallo. In fact, Davis left academic life five years ago to work full time for PepsiCo. Moreover, his PepsiCo/Gatorade employment constitutes [ ] Categories: Uncategorized Yes, the Russells’ blog is now Keep Fitness Legal. Unlike most corporate rebrands (see: Altria), we’re not burying a shameful past. We could not be prouder, in fact. Over the past five years, CrossFit HQ has defended its affiliates against our adversaries’ fraudulent injury claims, as well as the prospect of jail time for squatting instruction or dietary advice. We caught the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA) committing fraud and sued. Four years later the NSCA s own lawyers are [ ] Categories: Uncategorized Four years ago, New Zealand exercise industry lobbyist Richard Beddie made several false claims about CrossFit affiliates and trainers, among them that it killed six people overseas and left an Australian man paralyzed. This seems to have been part of an attempt to coerce CrossFit affiliates and trainers into joining his trainer registry, REPs NZ. Greg Glassman publicly rejected Beddie’s proposition: “I’m not budging, and I’ll commit our resources to the very last drop to fight for the right of [ ] Categories: Uncategorized Last month we reported on an investigation into the American Council on Exercise’s Medical Exercise Specialist certification. A complaint with the National Commission on Certifying Agencies (NCCA) alleged that ACE improperly transferred its NCCA accreditation to a new credential. Since accreditation is supposed to verify the legitimacy of a single certification, certifiers are not supposed to transfer accreditation from one certification to another. NCCA responded to this complaint by announcing that it was conducting an investigation into the matter. Four [ ] Categories: Uncategorized Should federal officials be allowed to interfere with commercial enterprises using their government titles? Ought they be able to promote some non-governmental organizations and attack others, all while identifying themselves as government authorities? It’s unimaginable in almost any context. A Health and Human Services official also working on behalf of Pfizer couldn’t write a journal article about avoiding Merck drugs. A U.S. Treasury official would be called corrupt for promoting a “Goldman Sachs Guide to Getting Really Rich.” High-ranking USDA [ ] Categories: Uncategorized Editor’s Note: We are pleased to present this anonymous guest submission. The American Council on Exercise (ACE) states on its website, “ACE serves as America s Authority on Fitness.” ACE appears to be using the National Commission for Certifying Agencies (NCCA) to accomplish this goal. In the early 2000s, ACE, the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA), the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) and other organizations in the fitness industry chose to become accredited by the NCCA. Since then, these organizations [ ] Categories: Uncategorized

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