I'm sure his health problems have nothing to do with alcoholism. Gotta be his diet. Also, the official Crossfit diet is Zone, not Paleo. Just ask Robb Wolf.

Since when is Glassman an advocate of paleo? Crossfit HQ is Zone Diet all the way unless I missed a big change in their thinking. Many if not most of the Crossfit athletes are paleo but HQ is in bed with Barry Sears and has been for a long time.

If Greg Glassman were Paleo it would be worth discussing. Since he isn't, and has publicly disavowed Paleo, defending Paleo over some non-Paleo's poor health is rather outrageous.

EDIT: And now after reading the article, I'm even more put off. First, it is on the Beach Body website. Heard of them? They compete with crossfit with P90x and other programs. Trying to slag on a competitor in this fashion is rather lame marketing. Wow did they get it wrong about coach Glassman's diet. There must be some strong hate. Between Beach Body and Crossfit HQ. Wonder what Rob Wolf would say about this?

Kevin Bacon (dressed in ROTC uniform, as it were): "All is well!!!!!!!"

Just because you do CrossFit doesn't make you Paleo, despite the fact that they have traditionally gone hand-in-hand. That being said, I may be a stickler for clear causation when approaching something like this, but I'm much more inclined to believe biochemistry than I am a picture of a dude who may or may not be even close to Paleo. Just because he makes his living as the head of cross-fit doesn't mean he is the pillar of its ideals.

As for the marine who sued the Marine Corps because he was "injured" by CrossFit workouts, I'm inclined to believe that (as unfortunate as this is) the Navy/Marines are making a public criticism of CrossFit for liability purposes. This is the JAG lawyers more than it is anything else.

N=1. I know an active duty Navy Seal. He is 100% Paleo per recommendations of a Navy nutritionist and the workouts he describes doing while training with his boat crew would put CrossFit workouts to shame. No offense to CrossFitters, of course.

I suppose this answer would be more disciplined (and carry more weight) had I been able to force myself to do a critical reading of the entire article. But the first two links that I checked did not say what the author claimed.

Neither Glassman nor Crossfit was named as a defendant in the lawsuit filed by Makimba Mimms--only the gym and the trainers. Because Glassman and Crossfit were not in fact sued, there could not be judgments against them--so in a weird way saying there was a 0 thousand dollar judgment was accurate. Crossfit can't be "found guilty as charged" (which is a criminal concept, not a civil one anyway, although a corporation can in fact be convicted of a crime in certain situations, but I digress) if it is not a party to the lawsuit!

In light of such an initial glaring inaccuracy I didn't have the patience to evaluate the remainder of the article, which appeared to contain a number of ad hominem arguments.

you could scare a lot of crows with all the strawmen in that article.

That was such an eloquently written article, all the question marks and multiple uses of the word 'debunked' in a sentence really drove the point home. I am starting to question my slavish devotion to eating food that only existed in its exact form pre-agriculture, and drinking from poop filled puddles. I don't do crossfit, but apparently I'm lucky to have escaped the ravages of bulimia and herpes endemic in the community.

I think it's kind of a waste of bandwidth giving that site attention (yet here I am doing it). It's so replete with unsubstantiated accusations, and a perfectly despicable style and tone that I wonder "is this parody that I just don't get?" The sensational title was repeated three times before the text actually appeared, and that long list of "appropriate tags" at the end is like, I dunno, Web circa 1999?

I mean, it says "...the court found crossfit guilty as charged and crossfit was socked with a judgement against them in court for over 0 thousand dollars." Ohhh! 0 thousand dollars--in COURT!! Must have been pretty awful!

I never did crossfit, and honestly don't even know what it is. I do know any sort of prescribed, scheduled, structured gym-based fitness routine is100% optional when it comes to health and fitness, individuals are generally responsible for their own choices, and other things cause rhabdomyolysis besides faulty exercise programs. Jeez, I took a common pharmaceutical once that came with warnings of elevated risk of rhabdomyolysis.

Also, don't put too much faith in MDs. It was an MD who ruined a close family relative of mine with 2 years of an intense anti-rheumatoid drug cocktail when the whole time she just had a herniated disc. And MDs are telling people to take statins and eat low-fat, high-refined carb diets--even when they have no evidence of CVD. Medical credentials are dubious metrics of skill and effectiveness, at best. I'd take an intellectually curious, science-minded clinician over an establishment-whipped MD beholden to the pharmaceutical industrial complex any day.

This sounds like all smoke and no fire to me. I prefer to draw my conclusions from resources that cite their source material, and have some basic, reasonably adult communication skills. Piffle, this is. Sort of a fun read, but mostly meh.

This article reeks of malice and hate. I suspect the author has an ulterior motive. The CEO doesn't look obese. He's also not suffering any medical health problems - that was merely the opinion of the author. The dude is just getting old and probably not eating 100% paleo. Most of the managers of the gyms I've belonged to were fat as well - probably from the stress.

The only point that is worth thinking about is that modern cows are not paleo. This is true. They are wild, raging, beasts by nature and have been bred to be docile, lazy, grazzing creatures. I don't eat beef myself because my intuition tells me that they just aren't natural creatures. I prefer seafood - it's been around for billions of years and you can't beat that for "primal" food.

The only benefit to crossfit is that it keeps physical therapists and chiropractors in business.

Ok I don't like crossfit mainly because from what I've witnessed they don't seem to practice clean form and careful lifting. It looks kinda sloppy. The whole statement on diet is false. Most of us know from personal experience that gluten and grains don't work well. Other than personal experience there really is no reason to have grains in our diet. None of us are saying a bit of sweet potato fruit and veggies are bad? If you are active you should do well with a bit of extra carbs anyway. Point is meat is a superior source of Essential fatty acids and amino acids. We don't cook our meat to death. Many of us just sear it.

Where'd you get this information?

"Crossfit is being touted against by the US Navy" This is absolutely untrue, in fact I have very recent information that is contrary to this. I personally don't care for CF but the Navy cannot tell you not to exercise a certain way.

FYI the runner up in the Crossfit games last year is a close personal friend and active duty service member. http://games.crossfit.com/article/josh-bridges-out-2012 Im sure he'd love to participate in the CFG but somebody got to fight these wars people.

Based on a known inaccuracy of the rumors I just commented on Im not gonna respond to the rest other than say when I saw Art Devany at Runyon Canyon no too long ago he looked amazing.

That was a pretty dumb article. Obviously the guy had a bone to pick with Crossfit, so he marched over to his computer to type up an article that sounds like a ranting teen. Using Glassman as an example of how paleo doesn't work is idiotic. 30 days is all it takes to prove the author wrong.

This article sounds like hate mongering and INACCURATE (?from conventional wisdom and/or vegetarian/vegan) ... look at this excerpt:

"In Crossfit, on a Paleo Zone diet, you would truthfully NOT be permitted to drink tap water. This means you can’t drink out of the water fountain in the gym to hydrate yourself. You can’t bring tap water from your house, or even drink any water from your faucet in your house if you’re following Paleo. Why? Cavemen didn’t have treated water. You can’t drink disinfected water. You have to go outside the gym, or out of your house, and drink out of a puddle. That’s what cavemen did. And according to the paleo diet, you are actually DESIGNED for that. Oh, and also you can’t drink bottled water either. That’s been purified and disinfected. You cannot drink gatorade, electrolytes, vitamin water, power ade, or any other sports drink. You have to go outside and find a river, or stream, hopefully NOT infected with cryptosporidium, and put your mouth down to the ground and sip up the water, algae, muck, twigs, leaves, bug parts, worms, parasites, or anything else. Afterall, according to paleo, drinking water potentially infested with worm eggs and larvae, pinworm eggs, fecal droppings, urine, ecoli bacteria, salmonella, is what you did for millions of years and so you should be not only "ok" but you are "designed" for it, and also you should have your child and baby do it. Paleo says drinking this not only won’t hurt you or your family, but in principle says this should be MORE healthy for you, drinking animal backwash, than today’s water. Enjoy ...."

The death rate of hoo-mans is still 100%

Haven't read the article, but it looks like a typical fallacy (a typical post hoc ergo propter hoc in this case). It's not because one person on a specific diet is ill, that the diet is necessarily bad. There are other factors besides diet (such as the alleged alcoholism in this case) that also play a role. I'm so tired of all of these fallacies.

Just because one guy doesn't look good you cannot blame the whole group. I bet he doesn't even follow a proper paleo diet. Anyone eating nutrient rich grassfed beef, offal, free-range eggs, and a substantial amount of organic produce is going to look good. Especially if they have a low-stress life and get proper rest everynight and between workouts.

People who claim that the paleo diet is bad are funny.

Eat veggies, eat lean meat, dont drink milk or any dairy, no beans, grains. No legumes again...

Proof you can live off the diet are the hunter and gatherers of today. These people dont eat grains, they eat starches, tubers, roots berries, wild game.

People who are nay sayers to something that works and has worked are blind to the truth. It hurts to see people saying that bread is good. Its been poisoning all of us since we were kids.

In my opinion eating paleo or primitive is the difinitive balance.

Uh oh...Glassman appears to be the next target in CarbSane's sights -

http://carbsanity.blogspot.com/2012/06/crossfit.html.

The title is a dead giveaway, if he's the CEO, you can imagine the insane stress levels, lack of sleep, constant issue resolution he has to go through.

I work for a small company, and looking through the emails, I see our CEO is responding to emails all day long, all evening long, and yes, all night long, and then early in the morning. So for sure he's not getting much, if any sleep.

That sort of lifestyle has a huge price.