CrossFit for “at-risk youth”: Sustainable Actions Versus Disruptive Situations
摘要
CrossFit is a functional fitness activity that incorporates weightlifting, gymnastics, and cardiovascular exercises. Researchers have shown that CrossFit offers numerous benefits such as providing a community, being empowering, and offering new forms of fitness. As this fitness activity has shown positive impacts, a program using CrossFit techniques was created specifically for at-risk youth in rural community in Southeast Georgia. The chapter starts with an overview of the program. Next, it offers a discussion of positive outcomes reported by the participants and then moves on to address challenges and barriers in running the program, concluding with a summary of the sustainability of this type of youth development program.