Individual Event 3, 2013 CrossFit Regionals30 burpee muscle-ups Suspend Disbelief Brad Rogers joined CrossFit Roots last fall. Read below for his personal account with CrossFit, nerves and accomplishment, and staring Paleo in the face. I’m not really the true-believer type. I especially don’t buy into philosophical ideals and “scientific” narratives that promote the latest and greatest fitness regimens and diets. At some point along the way, though, my body just got away from me. I had to try something. I joined CrossFit Roots last fall. My health and fitness experience through Roots has been like watching Being John Malkovich. Not a transbody experience. I’m talking about a dramatic mechanism called suspend disbelief. The movie is absolutely preposterous! I doubt anyone would give it a chance after reading a synopsis of the whole plot. But the movie takes the audience on a crazy ride in manageable incremental steps, so we’re still...
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