I’d been attending CrossFit workouts for two months before I began to learn the Kipping Pull-Up. Until that point, every Pull-Up I’d ever performed had been the more traditional strict, dead-arm hang, ...

Is it a workout — or a sport? The CrossFit debate raged for years. After all, CrossFit became a sensation by turning barbell lifts, rope climbs, pull-ups and medicine ball throws into timed workouts, ...