ReBUILD: Fitness Fights Cancer

Video by Mike Koslap.

At CrossFit Memorial Hill in Kansas City, Missouri, the WeBuild4Life (BUILD) program has a unique mission.

“We have the same methodologies of CrossFit—functional fitness, constantly varied, high intensity—but we focus our programming on the specific needs of cancer survivors,” says Sami Mansfield, co-founder of BUILD.

According to Mansfield, “Exercise is the pixie dust for cancer survivors.”

She has watched members of the BUILD program increase their strength as well as their confidence—something many survivors feel cancer stole from them.

“I would say I’m stronger now than I have ever been in my entire life,” says survivor Genna Wissing.

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