Climbing rope, crab-walking, crossing monkey bars, jumping rope, doing sit-ups and pull-ups. At times it looks like what you’d do on a playground or in a gym class at school. But it’s CrossFit Kids, a ...

This is an installment of Good Fit, a column about exercise. I took my first CrossFit Kids class when I was 10 years old, the summer between fifth and sixth grade. I remember a circuit that involved ...

The workout craze known as CrossFit combines strength-training, gymnastics and aerobic conditioning. There are now more than 12,000 CrossFit gyms around the world. The exercise attracts men, women and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The youngest CrossFit camper gets a little help from with his pull-up from Lexis Bauer. PORT CLINTON — Last week, a group of kids ...

This big fitness craze is targeting a small audience. Aviator Sports and Events Center will offering kids’ classes for CrossFit — an anaerobic workout designed to build and tone muscles — starting in ...

The thought of kids swinging kettle bells, climbing ropes and pumping out push-ups in a CrossFit gym can be confusing—shouldn’t 10-year-olds be frolicking on a jungle gym or playing tee-ball instead ...

Baseball, gymnastics, and ballet are go-to after-school activities for children. Nowadays, though, the world of childhood fitness has expanded well beyond the norm. Kids can enjoy the same types of ...

After the company where she had worked for 10 years folded, Tina Whetzel decided it was time to quite the corporate world and turn to an old passion--exercise. Whetzel had spent plenty of time in gyms ...

A CrossFit gym in Omaha, Nebraska, is holding classes for a variety of age groups of kids and encouraging them to live a healthy, active lifestyle.CrossFit Hydro's trainers are teaching kids basic ...

LONG ISLAND CITY -- You might have noticed CrossFit gyms popping up all over the place. The high intensity workouts focus on strength and conditioning for adults, but now kids are taking part as well.

There was something unusual about the gym I had just arrived at in Long Island City. Each kettle bell could fit in the palm of my hand. The stacks of tires appeared to have come from regular-sized ...