This year as an April Fools’ Day prank, Spartan Mentality Gym in Denmark announced it was offering Nude CrossFit sessions. They even provided photos showing some rather bicepsual gentlemen working out at the gym completely naked.
Well, almost two months later, and outside the context of April Fools’ when our bullshit detectors are highly active, a website called the Gaily Grind re-ran the photos and presented the nude CrossFit gym as a real thing. That was enough for the titans of fact checking at the Huffington Post to pick up the story. Now the internet is buzzing as the nude CrossFit gym story makes the rounds on the blogs and even YouTube, with almost everyone presenting it as a real thing.
Thankfully, the Copenhagen Post actually contacted the gym to confirm that it was in fact just an April Fools’ joke and no one from their staff had been contacted by the Gaily Grind.
I think the moral to the story is that a great opportunity is going to waste. I don’t do CrossFit myself (I prefer my workouts with a lower risk of inducing nausea, incontinence and kidney failure), but it seems someone should step up and fill this void in the market place.
Until then, there’s always Ami Amore’s Clothing Optional Yoga class.