What is CrossFit?
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CrossFit is a fitness and conditioning system developed by Coach Greg Glassman through many years of watching, working with, and coaching all types of people – from those considered “normal and average” to top athletes. Coach Glassman’s idea is simple: Take what works best from the sports and movements that create the most versatile athletes (gymnastics and weightlifting), and throw the rest out. Actually, the system really created itself – if a workout or an exercise proved functional and got great results it stayed in the system. If not, it was removed from the program. CrossFit is what remains – the most effective fitness and conditioning system in the world!
One of the things that makes CrossFit unique is that it addresses the fact that the fitness needs of an “Average Joe” are identical to that of a top athlete – the only difference being intensity (speed & weight) and volume. In all cases, the best results come when training includes functional movement (that which replicates real life movement), at high intensity and with constant variety. Any exercise program that meets these three criteria can be considered “CrossFit,” from shoveling dirt, hauling rocks and cutting down trees to weightlifting, pull ups and sprinting.
CrossFit has been called “The Sport of Fitness” because it re-introduces personal athletic achievement and performance to training. The mindset at the start of each workout is to be stronger, move faster and more efficiently, with better form than ever. This is why even after years of training CrossFit style, athletes continue to improve. It’s hard, fun, exciting, challenging, and will push you to be your absolute best!
CrossFit is designed to be broad, general and inclusive. Its specialty is in not specializing, and its workouts elicit a maximal neuro-endocrine response from your body by challenging your body with variety, intensity, and multiple joint, full-body, functional movements.
Why Crossfit? Results! Most other training programs take way too much time to get results, induce quick plateaus due to routines and repetitive modalities, or are incomplete, leaving a well rounded athlete with a chink in his/her armor.
CrossFit is a fitness and conditioning system developed by Coach Greg Glassman through many years of watching, working with, and coaching all types of people – from those considered “normal and average” to top athletes. Coach Glassman’s idea is simple: Take what works best from the sports and movements that create the most versatile athletes (gymnastics and weightlifting), and throw the rest out. Actually, the system really created itself – if a workout or an exercise proved functional and got great results it stayed in the system. If not, it was removed from the program. CrossFit is what remains – the most effective fitness and conditioning system in the world!
One of the things that makes CrossFit unique is that it addresses the fact that the fitness needs of an “Average Joe” are identical to that of a top athlete – the only difference being intensity (speed & weight) and volume. In all cases, the best results come when training includes functional movement (that which replicates real life movement), at high intensity and with constant variety. Any exercise program that meets these three criteria can be considered “CrossFit,” from shoveling dirt, hauling rocks and cutting down trees to weightlifting, pull ups and sprinting.
CrossFit has been called “The Sport of Fitness” because it re-introduces personal athletic achievement and performance to training. The mindset at the start of each workout is to be stronger, move faster and more efficiently, with better form than ever. This is why even after years of training CrossFit style, athletes continue to improve. It’s hard, fun, exciting, challenging, and will push you to be your absolute best!
CrossFit is designed to be broad, general and inclusive. Its specialty is in not specializing, and its workouts elicit a maximal neuro-endocrine response from your body by challenging your body with variety, intensity, and multiple joint, full-body, functional movements.
Why Crossfit? Results! Most other training programs take way too much time to get results, induce quick plateaus due to routines and repetitive modalities, or are incomplete, leaving a well rounded athlete with a chink in his/her armor.