As kids get sicker with chronic diseases, school districts cut recess and P.E. budgets, cafeteria food and school vending machines encourage the worst possible nutrition habits, and a sedentary life spent indoors on the couch becomes the norm for kids of all ages, it’s hard not to get discouraged about the future of health and fitness for kids. And the realities are even harsher for kids in disadvantaged homes or communities.
We have run CrossFit Kids programs in our locations and have supported a CrossFit program in our community schools because we know that all kids benefit from the opportunity to participate in the fun, supportive fitness community that we’ve chosen for our families—a community that can shape healthy habits for a lifetime.
The CrossFit Foundation works to bring that opportunity to as many kids as possible through support for a network of charities that provide CrossFit programming to at-risk youth, and by funding schools and school districts seeking to implement CrossFit for their students.
You can register for our event with a $35 donation, which will include a T-shirt and participation on the worldwide leaderboard, or you can just participate for fun along with the rest of the CrossFit community on Sept. 1, 2018, when we program the workout for our Saturday classes at all three of our locations.
All proceeds raised by the CrossFit for Kids: Saved by the Barbell fundraiser workout will support those efforts.
