So everything that I’ve done has revolved around CrossFit. Then I became one of the fittest in the world. “I got out of college and I became a CrossFit coach. “The only job I’ve ever had is CrossFit,” Muhammad said. Muhammad said helping to diversify the health and fitness space, especially in CrossFit, is something he finds great value in.
These kids need us now, and we have to try to make the change.’”
Let’s just get it off the ground, because I don’t want to wait. “‘Why wait for people to give us the go? … We’ll learn as we go …. Within 10 minutes, “We got started,” Ford said. So I literally just started looking up research papers about racial health disparities to see what they were, how they existed, and why they existed.”įord reached out to a fellow leader in the fitness community in Muhammad, a two-time CrossFit Games athlete and owner of CrossFit Unorthodox, to see if he would be a part of the project.
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Unsure of how to initiate change effectively, Ford took to what he knows best. “I was in a profession where I was helping people, but I wasn’t helping my people as much as I should - Black Americans,” Ford said. While reflecting on his own life experiences as a biracial Black American, “I just decided to, you know, start doing something that I knew to help,” Ford explained. Last June, Muhammad received a call from Patrick Ford, a nearby physical therapist who was motivated to use his expertise in health and wellness to “help eliminate fitness and health disparities in the Black and Brown communities.” “Sometimes you don’t really know what to do, so you just start doing something and figure it out as you go!” Elijah Muhammad wrote in an Instagram post reflecting on the origins of Project Onyx.
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