https://www.scmp.com/rss/324919/feed en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com https://www.scmp.com/sport/article/3008047/asia-crossfit-championship-leaderboard-highlights-and-livestream-mondays?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/sport/article/3008047/asia-crossfit-championship-leaderboard-highlights-and-livestream-mondays?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 29 Apr 2019 02:01:33 +0000 Welcome to the South China Morning Post's coverage of the inaugural Asia CrossFit Championship, live from Shanghai's Luwan Gymnasium. We'll have live streams of all the events, as well as highlights, results, photos, updated leader boards and plenty of on-the-ground coverage from our man Patrick Blennerhassett. Asia CrossFit Championship: leader board, highlights and live stream from Monday's workouts in Shanghai https://www.scmp.com/sport/article/3007986/asia-crossfit-championship-leaderboard-highlights-and-results-sundays?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/sport/article/3007986/asia-crossfit-championship-leaderboard-highlights-and-results-sundays?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 28 Apr 2019 01:50:52 +0000 Beginners dive straight into weightlifting, and that is their downfall, says Dmitry Klokov, silver medallist for Russia at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. “The biggest mistake is that people start from the weights, not the information,” he said. “They lift the weights, break their body and then start thinking ‘why?’.” Klokov, who held classes for weightlifters and CrossFit fans at URSUS Fitness in Sai Ying Pun, said weightlifting was unlike others sports, such as rugby, where players can potentially... https://www.scmp.com/sport/outdoor/crossfit-strongman/article/2118858/breaking-bodies-and-breaking-sports-russian-olympic?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/sport/outdoor/crossfit-strongman/article/2118858/breaking-bodies-and-breaking-sports-russian-olympic?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 08 Nov 2017 02:30:00 +0000 Crossfitters were surprisingly unsurprised when one of the sport’s top athletes was banned for taking performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs). The community did not specifically think Ricky Garard, third at the 2017 CrossFit Games, was cheating, but suspected there was widespread drug abuse at the top level. CrossFit combines high-intensity workouts with Olympic weightlifting. The winner of the CrossFit Games is labelled the fittest on Earth.  A comment on Garard’s Instagram post about the ban... https://www.scmp.com/sport/outdoor/crossfit-strongman/article/2115405/crossfit-drugs-would-be-formula-one-gym-rats-ricky?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/sport/outdoor/crossfit-strongman/article/2115405/crossfit-drugs-would-be-formula-one-gym-rats-ricky?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 15 Oct 2017 03:01:37 +0000 CrossFit calls itself the definitive test of fitness, and labels its champions the fittest on Earth. The title proved too tempting for Ricky Garard, 23, who has been stripped of his bronze medal from the 2017 CrossFit Games after testing positive for banned substances. Australian Garard is the most high-profile CrossFit athlete to have failed a dope test. He must return his US$76,000 prize money and is banned from competing in CrossFit sanctioned events until 2021. The Greatest Fear In The... https://www.scmp.com/sport/other-sport/article/2113918/crossfit-games-bronze-medallist-ricky-garard-banned-drugs-casting?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/sport/other-sport/article/2113918/crossfit-games-bronze-medallist-ricky-garard-banned-drugs-casting?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 04 Oct 2017 03:15:02 +0000 For Tobey Hill, fitness is a natural a part of her daily routine – a trait she shares with her husband Tom and their three sporty children. Tobey, 45, and Tom, 47, roll out of bed at the crack of dawn each weekday to travel to CrossFit Asphodel in Chai Wan for their daily dose of high intensity workouts. Then their workdays begin: Tobey’s at investment bank CLSA, where she heads up the tax group, and Tom’s at HSBC, where he is a foreign account tax compliance act manager. Tobey has tried many... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/health-beauty/article/2112726/how-crossfit-helps-hong-kong-mum-keep-her-family-fit-and-fab?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/health-beauty/article/2112726/how-crossfit-helps-hong-kong-mum-keep-her-family-fit-and-fab?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 25 Sep 2017 09:15:19 +0000 Epic MMA Club, Hong Kong’s first high-end mixed martial arts club, has closed its doors, leaving hundreds of members potentially out of pocket. A notice from liquidators for Epic posted on Monday in a Facebook group chat said the company had gone into liquidation. The club’s operations director, Joey Lee, said by email the decision to cease operations “came about very suddenly”. Branches of struggling California Fitness shut down across Hong Kong Clark Wang, who was among Epic members picking up... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/health-beauty/article/2104869/hong-kongs-epic-mma-club-shuts-down-suddenly-liquidators?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/health-beauty/article/2104869/hong-kongs-epic-mma-club-shuts-down-suddenly-liquidators?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 01 Aug 2017 02:45:30 +0000 When you hear crossfit, you think barbells, dumbells and pull-ups, not makeshift weights in duvets and duct tape. But the Coastal Crossfit team were forced to prepare for the regional championships with home-made equipment when the organisers surprised everyone by introducing a 300kg ‘worm’. The unusual preparation worked, and Hong Kong-based Coastal CrossFit team emerged as the fittest team in Asia at the gruelling regional three-day competition in Australia at the end of May. Crossfit is a... https://www.scmp.com/sport/other-sport/article/2098772/how-hong-kong-crossfit-team-was-declared-fittest-asia-thanks-their?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/sport/other-sport/article/2098772/how-hong-kong-crossfit-team-was-declared-fittest-asia-thanks-their?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 17 Jun 2017 08:00:00 +0000 Growing up the youngest of three children, and a member of the third generation of the family that controls the Nan Fung Group, a Hong Kong property developer, Vanessa Cheung has big boots to fill. But her boots weren’t made for walking – at least not in the beginning. As with many Hong Kong children, education was the focus of Cheung’s childhood. Aside from swimming and skipping every day – her mother said it would make her taller – she and her classmates didn’t learn about fitness or body... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/health-beauty/article/2083722/she-wants-rope-more-hongkongers-fitness-so-whats-vanessa?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/health-beauty/article/2083722/she-wants-rope-more-hongkongers-fitness-so-whats-vanessa?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 31 Mar 2017 04:30:30 +0000 CrossFit 852 founder Jamie Lee doesn’t believe in leaving success to chance. “Time is never on your side – there is always room for improvement.” A lesson that Lee and co-founder David Chang learned quickly with their new workout business. Lee discovered CrossFit back in 2009 when he was still living in Los Angeles. At the time, he had a standard fitness routine whereby he would spend time running and working out at a conventional gym – this eventually became too repetitive for his tastes.... https://www.scmp.com/special-reports/xxiv/article/2041571/how-jamie-lee-co-founder-crossfit-852-turned-his-interest?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/special-reports/xxiv/article/2041571/how-jamie-lee-co-founder-crossfit-852-turned-his-interest?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 07 Nov 2016 01:00:15 +0000 Madonna wowed Macau on her Rebel Heart Tour this year. Not only with her avant-garde costumes and catchy songs, but also her rock-hard abs. Many Macau fans might have wondered how the superstar toned her amazing body. Online research reveals Madonna’s personal trainer is a fan of Surfset Fitness, a type of exercise that mimics the movements of surfing but on land, and specifically on top of a specially-designed board surfboard. Its base consists of three large balls that re-create the... https://www.scmp.com/destination-macau/article/2024949/macau-and-hong-kongs-gym-scenes-are-catching-west-exciting-range?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/destination-macau/article/2024949/macau-and-hong-kongs-gym-scenes-are-catching-west-exciting-range?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 04 Oct 2016 08:00:00 +0000 Bringing his signature sports festival to Hong Kong for the first time, Terminator star Arnold Schwarzenegger on Friday extended his warmest welcome to the people of the city, including martial arts actor Jackie Chan. Addressing a room of reporters in his neatly ironed suit, the former California governor also called China “one of his favourite countries” and praised mainland athletes competing in the Olympic games. Watch: Arnold Schwarzenegger in Hong Kong The former bodybuilding champion is... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/education-community/article/2006172/arnold-schwarzenegger-arrives-hong-kong-asian?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/education-community/article/2006172/arnold-schwarzenegger-arrives-hong-kong-asian?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 19 Aug 2016 10:00:45 +0000 One would think only a superhero could pull something that weighs about 100 times one’s own weight. And if so, Gary Manwaring and Santina Philips both became superheroes on Friday as they performed the impossible feat as part of a curtain-raiser for the Arnold Classic Asia Multi-Sport Festival, to be held at the Asia-World Expo from August 20 to 21. Showcasing their strength ahead of the sports extravaganza ­– which has gone global since Hollywood star Arnold Schwarzenegger founded it in the... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/1999698/strongmen-pull-heavy-duty-feat-curtain-raiser?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/1999698/strongmen-pull-heavy-duty-feat-curtain-raiser?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 05 Aug 2016 11:00:30 +0000 WATER BABY I grew up in Melbourne, in a house 100 metres from the sea, and spent much of my childhood either at the beach or in my neighbour's swimming pool. I didn't take formal swimming lessons but my older brother did, so I just copied what he was doing. I was into all the sports - I won a football (Australian Rules) scholarship to high school and played baseball at the national level, but when I was 13, I decided to concentrate on swimming. I was getting frustrated with having to rely on... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/health-beauty/article/1947275/how-olympic-swimmer-tried-too-hard-then-found?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/health-beauty/article/1947275/how-olympic-swimmer-tried-too-hard-then-found?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 19 May 2016 21:30:30 +0000 Ed Haynes Founder Coastal Fitness Performance Training HK, ex international rugby player One of the biggest drivers of Crossfit's popularity has to be its community aspect. You could walk into a Crossfit box for the first time on the other side of the world, and immediately have a lot in common with other members. I haven't seen any other platform which has delivered results for body composition, health and well-being as effectively as Crossfit. In all honesty, I can't argue with the negative... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/48hrs/article/1572679/crossfit-ultimate-workout-five-hong-kongs-crossfitters-say-why-they?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/48hrs/article/1572679/crossfit-ultimate-workout-five-hong-kongs-crossfitters-say-why-they?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 13 Aug 2014 17:15:00 +0000