4.26.11 The Single Best Exercise

My sister gave me an article from The New York Times Magazine titled What's The Single Best Exercise? by Gretchen Reynolds and wanted to know my thoughts.  I read it, chuckled, and the answer was CrossFit, the article never mentions CrossFit, but talks about what we do all the time.  CrossFit is not one exercise but look at the exercises stated as The Best:

• The Burpee - Say no more we all know how awesome this exercise is and how we curse it every time.
• The Squat - Activates the largest muscles in the body and its SIMPLE.  If you conquer the Air Squat go for the weighted squat.  Hhhmmm ... let's see every PUSH511 warm-up includes Air Squats and how many times do we challenge ourselves with front squats, back squats, overhead squats?  Keep going Thruster, Clean, Snatch...... the air squat the building block for all.
• "H.I.T." - High-Intensity-Interval Training.... can you say CrossFit.  We take all exercises and do them at high intensity. I like the way the article stated "Of course, to be effective, H.I.T. must hurt." 
• Finally the best exercise to tie in muscle strength, as in a squat, and interval training is sprinting up stairs.  Well if you run the Horribly Hilly 800M PUSH511 route in a good Pose method with your knees pulling up high, then that sprint up Dillon from Haven Street is pure perfection.

CrossFit is The Single Best Exercise - People write and talk about CrossFit in so many other terms, should we let them in on the secret?