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rosecorcoranwrites · 5 years

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The Obligatory Strong Female Character Post

What constitutes a "strong female character" (or SFC for short). As a person on the internet, I’m obligated to weigh in on this. Everybody’s doing it! But what do we mean by “strong”? Is a strong person the same as a strong character? And do we need more SFCs in fiction?

Physical Strength

Obviously, “strong” and “weak” can describe someone's physical attributes. A strong person is physically fit and muscular. They can lift heavy objects and carry weights great distances, and sometimes know how to fight. A physically weak person, on the other hand, might be sickly or flabby and can't lift or carry much at all.

Hollywood churns out many physically strong female characters, although many of them are played by actresses who might blow away in a strong breeze. Most of these so-called SFCs could be replaced by sexy, physically fit lamps, because while admittedly strong, these ladies are not in fact characters. They are hollow beings with very little personality and characterization beyond “She kicks butt!” Thus, while these are "strong female somethings", they can't be called SFCs.

I have two issues with people who think that there are not enough of this type of “SFC”. One is that there is an underlying idea that, to be as good as male characters, the female in question must be as physically strong, if not stronger, than her male counterparts. Because apparently physical strength is the height of worthiness and likability, or something? Often the idea of role-models comes into the conversation regarding SFCs, in that people think little girls need better role-models. To such people, I ask, would you teach little boys that in order to be good enough, you must be as physically strong or stronger than your peers, and that anything less than that is not worth imitating? Of course you wouldn’t! So why should little girls learn the same lesson?

As an aside, I also think it’s funny that in a time where we are so cognizant of unattainable female body images, we perpetuate them in the type of physically strong female characters we portray. Again, Hollywood has willowy actresses habitually dropping men three times their size with one punch, not with magic, nor with martial arts designed to make up for smaller body sizes, but just sheer physical strength. And this actually does have an effect on real-life expectations: I went to a firing range as part of a Citizen’s Police Academy class, and the men in my group could not get it through their heads that I—a tiny, 5'3" wimp—couldn’t lift a police-issued shotgun long enough to aim it properly. I physically could not do what they could do without trying. I’m not saying writers can’t have physically strong women characters, I’m just saying that, maybe, take into account that that strength might require a larger body, muscles, training, or strategy. But I digress…

Strength of Character

Thankfully, most people who call for more SFCs are not talking merely about physical strength, but instead something more like strength of character, or strength of will. Someone with a strong character doesn't give up easily. They've got chutzpah, and moxy, and gumption, and a bunch of other words that are fun to say. Yet I quibble with people’s call for more and more such SFCs, because there are already plenty of characters like this. And there always have been. Books for children have always featured girls with just as much grit and wherewithal as boys, as have many classic books for grown-ups. Think about Elizabeth Bennet, Anne Shirley, Mrs. Frisbee, Mina Harker, Sara Crewe, and Gerda from The Snow Queen, just to name a few off the top of my head.

So where is the "there aren't enough SFCs" crowd coming from? These people, in my opinion, want women who never need, nor want, any help. Such a character is smart and capable enough to do everything by herself. She not only has a strong will, but is strong-willed. She doesn’t ever cry or get freaked out or feel helpless—because these are signs of weakness! She has guts, i.e. plot armor so thick that she will never ever meet an obstacle she cannot surmount. Which is… really boring, honestly.

Captain Marvel is a shining example of this type of so-called SFC: literally nothing affects her, physically or emotionally. There’s this line about how she’s supposedly too emotional, but she never shows any feeling besides a little smirk. Is cockiness an emotion? Anyway, there’s one scene where she finally realizes that everything she knows is a lie and that she’s been used by a genocidal race of space goons. This would have been a great moment for her to lose it, to scream, or cry, or use her powers so much that she accidentally blows off her inhibitor chip. But no, having her get frustrated or sad would show that she’s not 100% in control of everything, which would make her look weak. And human. And relatable on any level. I don’t know if you could tell, but I did not care for Captain Marvel.

Again, people who advocate for this type of SFC want role-models for little girls to look up to, without realizing that these super-capable, unassailable SFCs are just as unattainable an ideal as physically strong yet-muscleless ladies. Some girls are naturally shy and mild, other are unsure of themselves, and a few have actual anxiety-related issues. Are these types of girls weak? Again, let’s look at our male counterparts. Would you tell a shy little boy that he’s weak because he’s not as bold as his peers? Or that he shouldn’t seek help from others because he should be strong enough to do it by himself? Or, instead, would you tell him how to show true strength—the Mina Harker, Mrs. Frisbee, Sara Crewe type of strength—by persevering even when things are hard, and you do feel small, and things don’t go your way? Maybe we should be teaching girls the same thing.

Strong Characters, Female or Otherwise

So then, what is a strong female character? Is it a character who is a strong female, like a woman who can take down twenty guys in a fight? Or is it a female with a strong character, who never gives up no matter how tough it gets? I submit that it is not—necessarily—either. An SFC is, in short, a strong character who is female. Clear as mud, eh?

What no one ever seems to ask in all the SFC discourse is what, pray tell, do we mean by a "strong character"? Maybe the easiest way of answering this would be to find some examples of weak characters of either sex.

Bella Swan springs readily to mind, as do half-a-dozen female YA protagonists who might be described, in the most charitable terms, as “one-dimensional”. They lack agency and personality, generally because they are meant, more or less, to be reader inserts, so that the audience can imagine themselves in that role.

I submit that Ray, of the new Star Wars trilogy, is also a weak character, but in a different way. She makes decisions, sure, but without any motivation. She wants to stay on her planet and wait for her parents, because she needed a backstory, but then she’s fine going across the galaxy with Finn to drop off a droid, because otherwise she wouldn’t be in the rest of the movie, and she eventually decides to join the Resistance because that’s what a protagonist would do. Then she goes to train with Luke, apparently forgetting that she was waiting for her parents. Then she goes to try and turn Kylo Ren good because that way they can have a cool fight scene. She definitely has strength of character, in that she makes good decisions and isn’t easily swayed from doing whatever heroic act is required in any given scene no matter the odds, but there’s nothing behind any of her actions. There’s no there there. She does what a protagonist would do, not for any reason of her own—for example: because of her deep love of the Jedi, because she wants to find out the truth of her parents, because she’s wanted on her home planet for droid theft—but because the story requires it. And “because the story requires it” is never a good reason for doing things!

Lest you think I’m picking on the ladies, let me name the weakest character of all (and I apologize ahead of time to fans of the series): Ender Wiggan, of Ender’s Game. He has less agency than Bella and less reason for his actions than Ray. He might make one or two decisions in the entire book, the rest of the time just sort of moving around and doing things without purpose. We never see why he wants to do anything. His one character trait—and an informed one at that—is that he’s smart. That’s it. You could replace him with a lamp that’s intelligent enough to complete the objective of a war game (no, really, there’s a scene where all he does is complete the object of the game—get to the goal rather than focus on killing everyone on the other team—and he is lauded as a super genius) and nothing would change about that story.

What do all these weak characters have in common? Lack of personality, agency, goals, interests, quirks. Put simply, they are not well developed; their characterization is weak. Developing a character is a lot like developing film: the better you do it, the clearer the image should become. Thus, weak characters are a dark film that someone wrote on: “Bella is average and loves Edward”, “Ray is Force-sensitive and always tries to do the right thing”, “Ender Wiggam is a genius”. The end. Those don’t give a very clear impression of who we’re dealing with.

A strong character, i.e., a well-developed character, is one who we will know like the back of our hand by the end of the story, because we have such a clear picture of them. We know what drives them, or what makes them content. We know what they like, hate, and fear. We know odd little facts about them the way we know our friends’ foibles and eccentricities. A strong character feels like a real person.

Note that this in no way means that characters who are strong in the other two senses—physically fit or strong in character—can’t also be strong characters. There are plenty of multifaceted bruisers, fighters, and macho characters of both sexes out there—just watch anime! There are also, obviously, characters who never give up but, rather than being one-dimensional heroes, have traits that make them interesting and likable, like those who do what’s right despite wanting glory and money instead, or who are pure hearted but kinda dumb, or who became a hero due to some complicated backstory that still informs their actions. What I’m saying is, it’s possible to be a physically-strong strong character who also has strength of character!

But that’s not a necessity. Obviously, physical abilities are not a prerequisite to a well-developed character, but nor is a strong moral compass and grit. Take someone like Starscream, the ever scheming and completely untrustworthy second-in-command of the Decepticons in Transformers. Although tenacious in his own way, I don’t think anyone would hold him up as a model for “strength of character”. He’s backstabbing, weaselly, and willing to betray anyone (even himself!) to achieve his goals. No one would describe him as a weak character. What about Javert, from Les Miserables? He’s definitely got wherewithal—he needs it in order to obsess over one stolen loaf of bread for twenty years—but in his final hours, he gives up and chooses suicide over a world that doesn’t jive with his vision of justice. That might, ultimately, make him a weak person, but it cements him as one of the best examples of a strong character: he has a worldview and a goal and an obsessive personality; a real person like him would do something like that when his world comes crashing down. Many weak people, if depicted intricately and written clearly, might make strong characters.

We Need More Strong Female Characters

So, with this as our definition, do we need more SFCs in our fiction, or are there enough already? Yes, we do, and no, there aren’t. I’m not one of those people who demands a 50/50 ratio of male to female characters, but I do wish that the female characters we do have were stronger characters. The problem is that when we say “SFC”, writers hear “woman who can hold her own in a fight”, “woman who can save herself”, “woman who can’t be beat”, etc, and think that that absolves them from giving said women anything resembling a personality. They check the SFC box and pat themselves on the back for how great they are at writing "strong females", forgetting the “characters” part of the equation.

Honestly, I think the reason so many so-called SFCs are weak is precisely because it’s currently anathema to present a woman as anything but totally strong. Take Rey: having grown up on off-brand-Tatooine, she could have been savvy and money-hungry, perhaps planning on selling BB-8 back the Resistance instead of just delivering him. She could legitimately want to help Finn and the little droid get home, but might as well make a quick galactic credit while she’s at it. This would also payoff later, when she learns that she’s Force-sensitive, because there might actually be a temptation to the Dark Side—the easy side—contrasted with her innate desire to do the right thing. Wouldn’t that be interesting? Too bad! Because girls aren’t greedy! Girls can’t be tempted to take the easy way out! Girls need strong role-models! Role-models can't show weakness!

Which is dumb, because real people—men and women—are weak sometimes. People have physical and mental ailments. People have blind spots, and bad habits, and temptations. Even characters who are meant to be role-models can do so by showing that weaknesses can be overcome.

And this next statement might blow some people’s mind, but not every character, not even every female character, needs to be a role-model. The dearth of female characters in a lot of stories isn’t going to be solved by adding in a dozen women who are all do-gooding übermenschen; if you’re going for realism, you need characters with a diversity of goals, traits, and personalities, not just a diversity of sex.

Give me those meek and mild well-defined female characters. Give me shady, cowardly, or stingy ladies who feel like someone you could meet in real life. Give me musclebound fighters who have intricate motivations and backstory, or snarky fly-boy type ladies who totally can’t put her money where their mouth is. Give me female characters who struggle to do the right thing, or get exasperated with other people who they don’t consider up to snuff, or are super gung-ho with their hero duties to the detriment of their own safety, or any combination of the above. Basically, give me female characters who are as multifaceted and developed as the average male character.

We do need more SFCs in fiction, so we need to stop praising half-hearted, one-dimensional substitutes who happen to be female, because such characters are anything but strong.

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nd43taags · 6 years

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how about an au where taako and magnus were a thing during the stolen century and so lucretia left them together after the memory wipe?

I have edited this zero percent and it’s very much about HOW they were able to stay together, meaning it’s Lucretia-centric, but if anyone wants to build off this AU please feel free! This is also available to read on AO3!

She was so careful with her editing of their lives.

Lucretia knew that she was literally rewriting the fabric of her friends, and that frightened her. She spent many sleepless nights, trying to determine what was or wasn’t essential to everyone’s being. Would erasing the First Church of Fungston and it’s followers steal Merle’s compassion and love for the world around him? Would removing their afternoon performances at the conservatory, surrounded by well wishers and proud friends, steal Magnus’ kind creative spark that he worked so hard to nurture? Would taking the fight with his sister over the fate of the spirits in the Capital City tower steal Taako’s growing empathy for others and close him off from everyone again?

Some things would be irreplaceable. Captain Davenport would have to lose everything, there was no way around that. She had tried, tried to snip away only the bare minimum of the captain’s connections to the mission, but there was still so much. She did not know how he would fare when it was over.

Barry and Taako too, they would not be the same without Lup. But as far as she could tell, Lup was gone, and there was no way to know if she would ever return. Was it better to spare them that pain of knowing she was there, or to let them carry her weight? And what if she was still out there? What if Lucretia made Lup forget herself in her attempt to spare her loved ones?

She couldn’t think about that.

Merle couldn’t remember any of them. He had taken them all in as his own weird children as a part of this mission, and there was no way Lucretia could cut those threads apart. They were all too tightly wound together. That meant having to separate him and the Captain, which broke her heart. It was bad enough that Lup was gone, now the men who they had grown to view as fathers would lose their love too.

And Lucretia couldn’t deny she was destroying the love among them. 100 years together meant you learned to grow close who you were with. And they had, they had all loved each other so much. But now they were a tangled web of relationships, one that would have been impossible to understand when they left home all those years ago. They had lost Lup, and that had devastated Barry, but Lucretia had lost her lover too. And Lucretia would also lose Magnus, who she had also fallen so deeply in love with.

But there was one relationship that could be salvaged.

Taako and Magnus had met before the IPRE. It had been a small thing, interactions when they were younger, when Taako and Lup’s caravan would stop in Magnus’ neighborhood once a year. They had history untouched by the mission. Magnus had fallen for Taako hard the day they met, and Taako had followed when they met up again a year later. They had four summers together, from Magnus’ adolescence to adulthood. And they had a fling in that final year, the year before they both applied to the IPRE. There was something there that she could leave in tact.

Taako and Magnus could stay together.

They couldn’t have everything. She would have to take many of their nights together on the ship, their dates on the deck of the Starblaster. But they could keep the rings they hastily exchanged last year after the Light had been divided up. And they would keep the memory of each other, smiling, as the other accepted them.

But they could stay together.

And that was something.

At dinner that night, she tried to focus on their hands entwined, Magnus’s fingers laced with Taako’s as they somberly ate. Nobody spoke, they were so tired and so lost for how to continue, but there was still this. This one small thing that she could save of their lives together.

She would save them.

Separating the two of them would be too much for Taako, she realized. It was bad enough she was taking his sister. That was going to be a huge part of his formative years. She couldn’t leave him alone, to wander around a half of himself.

Magnus would be good for him. Magnus would support him.

And Magnus couldn’t completely lose his support network. He had grown so much, and taking that away might damage the maturity and strength he had gained. He needed someone to be there, to hold him up when he was struggling.

Taako would be good for him. Taako would support him.

They wouldn’t have to be alone.

In the glow of Fisher’s tank, she worked to redact the story of their romance, to leave only the necessities for them to stay together. She fought back tears, wishing that she could do the same for everyone, leave them something to hold on to, but this would have to do. Until she could bring them back.

Until they could all be together again.

The day of the Forgetting did not go as planned. Barry had disappeared. Daveport was inconsolable. Merle was wandering around confused. And Taako and Magnus…

She found them huddled together in Taako’s bed, holding each other with fear in their eyes. grasping onto the only thing they recognized - each other.

“Where are we?” Magnus asked, sounding panicked in a way she never thought she would hear from the Chief Security Officer she loved.

“You’re okay,” Lucretia soothed, “Let’s get you both outside.”

Taako was crying, but Magnus was dutiful as he lifted his partner from the bed and carried him to the door. Lucretia led them off the ship, all the while trying to focus Magnus’ attention away from the strange surroundings.

“You two are going to be fine,” she said, “I’m sure of it. We just need to get you two back on the road.”

“But… where are we?” he repeated, “And who are you?”

“Don’t worry about me,” Lucretia answered, “I’m nobody important, just someone who was passing by.”

There was a caravan waiting for them. It wasn’t much, just a bare-bones cooking wagon and a small cache of foodstuffs, but it was something they could have together.

“Here we go,” Lucretia said as Magnus laid Taako down in the back of the wagon on a blanket. “Safe and sound.”

“What happened to us?” Magnus asked.

“There was… there was a storm,” Lucretia answered, “You and your husband went into… a mine to try and wait it out, but there was some sort of natural gas and you both fell ill. I found you and brought you back to my… home.” She didn’t feel convinced by this lie, but Magnus was half there as it was. His mind was full of holes that it was eager to plug up with any explanation. “I think you two are okay to head out again though.”

“Where were we going?” Magnus asked.

“I think you said Neverwinter when we spoke last night,” she lied. “Do you remember that? You two were going to start a new life there.”

“Yeah… yeah okay,” Magnus nodded absently. “But what’s wrong with Taako?”

“He…” Lucretia glanced at Taako’s body, still curled up on the floor of the wagon shuddering. “He should be okay in a little bit. I think the gas was a lot worse for him. He should recover in a couple hours. But at least… At least he’s got you to take care of him, right?”

“Yeah,” Magnus nodded again, but this time he smiled, and Lucretia could feel her heart breaking. “Yeah I’ll take care of him.”

Magnus busied himself with checking the wagon, and Lucretia tried not to look at him as his brain tried to fill in the blanks. Finally, when he was convinced, he turned to her one more time with a smile.

“Thanks for saving us miss,” he beamed, taking the reins. “Taako and I really owe you.”

“Oh don’t thank me,” she said with a gasp. “I was just… Doing what I thought was right.”

“I’m grateful,” he said, “Come see us in Neverwinter some time?”

As she watched them ride away, she saw Taako sit up in the back of the wagon and come to sit beside Magnus. The passed over the horizon just as Taako draped his arm over Magnus’ shoulder.

They had each other.

Maybe they would be okay.

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itslucycarter-blog · 4 years

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Discipline, perseverance, variety of movements and functions.

Cardiovascular, respiratory, muscular resistance; strength, flexibility, power, speed; agility, coordination, balance and precision. Weights, ropes, ropes, tires, sacks, your own body. Back or Front squat, Deadlift, Snatch, Hang clean, Hang clean, jerk, Planks, Bench Press. All that and more is CrossFit.

Carlos Omar Amores writes (*)

CrossFit is a system of conditioning and physical training based on constantly varied exercises, with functional movements and executed at high intensity, which uses a large number of exercises and sports disciplines to be applied to daily life. This teaching method arose in 1974. At age 18, Greg Glassman, working with athletes in various gyms in Southern California, realizes that traditional bodybuilding routines were inefficient and did not improve fitness relative to the amount of Dedicated training time, thus deciding to focus on a training program that emphasizes the various functional movements performed at high intensity. So,

The North American who was dedicated to training police officers with this method in sunny California, managed to get the first Crossfit affiliated gym in the city of Santa Cruz in 1995, and became the epicenter of the movement. Later it was used for the training of US Marines, firefighters, and military. Today, Greg Glassman continues to lead the movement - with more than 2,700 CrossFit Box affiliates worldwide. In Lima there are currently around 15 affiliated CrossFit boxes. CrossFit is an international brand that a center accesses through a certification that is achieved through an examination; Representatives of the brand (United States) come to Peru once or twice a year, during which time the person who owns a box passes a test in order to apply for membership,

Cocktail Magazine toured three of the boxes that are giving talk in Lima to learn about this type of training that takes place late in our country. The first point was La Parada (Av. Ernesto Diez Canseco 220, Miraflores). We spoke with Hernán Castillo Mouzet, owner and coach of La Parada CrossFit and Marcos Libonati (Argentine), coach and crossfitter. For Hernán, CrossFit in Peru has not grown as in other Latin American countries, so La Parada CrossFit has emerged to face that reality. Castillo is Peruvian but he lives some years ago in Argentina, where he has a box and a couple of months ago he decided to venture into our country with the sports method with which he succeeds in Argentina. Hernán Castillo passed all the tests obtaining for La Parada CrossFit the official affiliation. “Certification is a crucial procedure for the formation of the pits in a legal and honest way. But in Peru –and it also happens in other countries– large gym chains take part of the term CrossFit (without having the authorization) and tell their students that it is the international brand ”, he tells us.

Why call a CrossFit box La Parada if one of its slogans is the diverse movement. Well, Hernán responds with conviction: “I was working for a long time in La Parada (the supply center in the center of Lima), and as we know, the so-called stevedores are there very early. The sturdy ones are the ones that can be seen in the early hours, they are the ones that carry bags of at least 50 kilos, boxes of about 30 kilos, etc; and to carry all that on your back, shoulder or carrying it requires a certain technique to avoid injury and they do it at great speed. In addition, the stevedore does not know what he will have to carry day after day. All of that is CrossFit. We want to be a very Peruvian box ”. For Marcos Libonati, athlete and CrossFit athlete with extensive experience as a gym coach,

The second place was Barranco CrossFit (Jr. Independencia 268 / Av. Grau 916, Barranco). Here the heads are Arturo Delgado and the coach Fernando Carranza coach. For these young trainers, the radical difference between training in a gym and a CrossFit box is that in the gym they give you your routine and they will always do the same exercises, either daily or daily; while at CrossFit different exercises will be done every day with different intensity and different times. “There is nothing monotonous, people are going up and down, jumping and running, rowing and nothing; things like that. In the gym you keep sitting with your dumbbells or lying with your barbell or locked in a machine. We do not use machines, here the machines are us ”, outer forearm workout ,emphasizes Fernando. One of the classic questions that you can ask yourself when you want to start with this method is: Can people who already train in a gym also practice CrossFit? -All the other coaches we interviewed answered yes- "There are some areas of the body that can be specifically exercised with a gym machine and they can also help you to perform the CrossFit movements more easily," adds Arturo.

Finally, we visited the Caution CrossFit South (Club Unión Arabe Palestino. Jr Nicolás Rodrigo, Surco). We were greeted by Alan Nieto (administrator and firefighter) and Carlos Zúñiga Cazú (gynecologist-obstetrician, fertility specialist). For these experienced CrossFit men, there are many myths that have been created around him. Alan mentions some of them: “that women have a man's body removed, that movements are very technical and that is why it hurts, that it cannot be practiced by anyone, among others; This has made the development of CrossFit so slow, despite the fact that it has existed in our country for 7 years now as a training alternative ”.

For Nieto, it is a constant job for coaches to break those myths: “What hurts are bad coaches, people who do not know how to teach or students who do not want to listen to the instructor. The ideal is that everyone give 100% of their capacity in their training, whether it be that of a crossfitter, the coach or a student ”. Carlos, champion several times of various CrossFit competitions, points out that “CrossFit is for everyone, but not everyone can do it, because you have to have a certain discipline and the ability to challenge yourself every day. People who come to a box are intimidated because they see the weights, people who are very muscular and athletic, but they are not. Most of our students are not athletes or competitors, they are chubby, sedentary, old, pregnant. ”

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mitchmitchel19-blog · 4 years

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Discipline, perseverance, variety of movements and functions. Cardiovascular, respiratory, muscular resistance; strength, flexibility, power, speed; agility, coordination, balance and precision. Weights, ropes, ropes, tires, sacks, your own body. Back or Front squat, Deadlift, Snatch, Hang clean, Hang clean, jerk, Planks, Bench Press. All that and more is CrossFit.

Carlos Omar Amores writes (*) CrossFit is a system of conditioning and physical training based on constantly varied exercises, with functional movements and executed at high intensity, which uses a large number of exercises and sports disciplines to be applied to daily life. This teaching method arose in 1974. At age 18, Greg Glassman, working with athletes in various gyms in Southern California, realizes that traditional bodybuilding routines were inefficient and did not improve fitness relative to the amount of Dedicated training time, thus deciding to focus on a training program that emphasizes the various functional movements performed at high intensity.( winstrol cycle before and after)

In Lima there are currently around 15 affiliated CrossFit boxes. CrossFit is an international brand that a center accesses through a certification that is achieved through an examination; Representatives of the brand (United States) come to Peru once or twice a year, during which time the person who owns a box passes a test in order to apply for membership,

Castillo is Peruvian but he lives some years ago in Argentina, where he has a box and a couple of months ago he decided to venture into our country with the sports method with which he succeeds in Argentina. Hernán Castillo passed all the tests obtaining for La Parada CrossFit the official affiliation. “Certification is a crucial procedure for the formation of the pits in a legal and honest way. But in Peru –and it also happens in other countries– large gym chains take part of the term CrossFit (without having the authorization) and tell their students that it is the international brand ”, he tells us.

In addition, the stevedore does not know what he will have to carry day after day. All of that is CrossFit. We want to be a very Peruvian box ”. For Marcos Libonati, athlete and CrossFit athlete with extensive experience as a gym coach,

“There is nothing monotonous, people are going up and down, jumping and running, rowing and nothing; things like that. In the gym you keep sitting with your dumbbells or lying with your barbell or locked in a machine. We do not use machines, here the machines are us ”, emphasizes Fernando. One of the classic questions that you can ask yourself when you want to start with this method is: Can people who already train in a gym also practice CrossFit? -All the other coaches we interviewed answered yes- "There are some areas of the body that can be specifically exercised with a gym machine and they can also help you to perform the CrossFit movements more easily," adds Arturo.

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