High-level bodybuilding competitions – basically, a parade of impossibly-muscled, severely-dehydrated men basted in mahogany and squeezed into posing trunks – are terrifying. By contrast, CrossFit athletes are the new standard for ‘achievable’ muscle: every single one of them has a six-pack and v-taper that wouldn’t look out of place in an 80s cartoon, but they’re just close enough to ‘normal’ that aspiring to look like them isn’t going to make anyone question your sanity.