While women have certainly been integrated into organized athletics at all skill levels, organized sport separates men and women into distinct leagues, teams, and categories – giving higher social regard to men’s participation.
Why it matters on the job
Tough Fitness activities have opened up new avenues for women to gain the athletic skills and resulting character traits that have in the past given men the ‘athletic advantage’ in the workplace.
For women who have rarely or never participated in organized sport in the past, the barriers to entry in becoming a CrossFit, Spartan athlete or someone who trains like a fighter are minimal – yet women who choose to participate in these fitness endeavors are accumulating the same skills recognized as integral to success in the workplace – in spite of the fact that they haven’t participated in ‘traditional’ sport in the past.
Women around the world are finding that participating in tough, gritty, back to basics fitness is not only allowing them to take back the standard definition of ‘beauty’, and level the playing field when it comes to business and work, but it is truly making them better people – better mothers, daughters, employees, bosses, sisters, wives and friends.
