Thinking Inside The Box - Time To Taste The Kool-Aid
Fitness Magazine|January - February 2019

CrossFit makes you brave enough to try new things and step out of your comfort zone

Thinking Inside The Box - Time To Taste The Kool-Aid

If you haven’t yet stepped into the high intensity and highly competitive world of CrossFit, then it’s high time you gave it a try.

Let's be honest, everyone knows someone who trains at the local box. That's because CrossFit is fun and effective, which is why it has become so popular and why it is still around. Yup, CrossFit wasn’t the fitness fad so many thought it was.

Cape Town-based elite CrossFit athlete and personal trainer, Nicole Warburg Mackenzie has tried just about every form of weight training there is (and dominated them all), and she believes CrossFit is one of the best. Here are her top 5 reasons why it's time that you too sipped on the CrossFit 'Kool-Aid'...

5 reasons to try CrossFit in 2019

1. CrossFit makes you strong

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