CrossFit has pumped-up workouts
Photo credit: Bruce Gilbert | With more than 25 locations of the national fitness chain on Long Island, members work out doing boot-camp type of exercises in small groups led by trainers at CrossFit Gym in Copiague. Here, Pat Mills works out on the rings.(Oct. 6, 2012)
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When Richie Glanzer joined the CrossFit gym in Copiague six months ago, he struggled to complete the workouts. On his third day, he had to alternate 100 squats with 100 burpees -- a move where you squat, kick your feet out behind you, stand up and jump. Midway through, he was so exhausted that he went outside and laid on the sidewalk in the rain.
"A lot of people would have quit, but I didn't,"...
