The first-responder community faces the unknown and unknowable every day, and “by having a more healthy first-responder community, we have a safer community at large,” says sports medicine and rehab physician Amy West.
That’s why members of the New York City Police Department (NYPD) and Fire Department of the City of New York (FDNY) are using CrossFit to stay healthy, physically and mentally: to better serve and protect their communities.
For the first time, NYPD CrossFit and FDNY Barbell Club went head-to-head in a first-responder throwdown shortly after the live announcement of CrossFit Open Workout 22.1 — all in the name of health, fitness, and camaraderie.
Find out who’s the fittest in the city.