The Famous “Fitness in 100 Words”

Originally penned by CrossFit founder Greg Glassman, the “Fitness in 100 Words” manifesto is a powerful, concise guide to living a healthy, high-performance life. It reads:

Eat meat and vegetables, nuts and seeds, some fruit, little starch and no sugar. Keep intake to levels that will support exercise but not body fat. Practice and train major lifts… Similarly, master the basics of gymnastics… Bike, run, swim, row, etc., hard and fast. Five or six days per week mix these elements in as many combinations and patterns as creativity will allow. Routine is the enemy. Keep workouts short and intense. Regularly learn and play new sports.

It’s CrossFit’s philosophy in a paragraph—simple, but transformative.