What is CrossFit ?
What is CrossFit?
CrossFit is a world-class strength and conditioning program and lifestyle. It delivers a fitness that is, by design, broad, general, and inclusive, making it popular among many police academies, fire departments, tactical operation units, mixed-martial artists, and elite athletes around the world. The workouts consist of constantly varied functional movements executed at a high intensity. This dynamic regimen improves every dimension of a person’s fitness, including their strengths and weaknesses.
CrossFit workouts are designed to be short, sweet, and scalable to any fitness level. CrossFitters recognize that not everyone is an elite athlete. The needs of Olympians and the needs of our grandmothers differ by degree, not kind. Everyone is welcome in our community. All a person needs is a little coaching, determination, dedication, and heart. With these ingredients, CrossFit can help anyone reach their fitness goals!
The CrossFit prescription is performing “functional movements that are constantly varied at high intensity.” CrossFit is a core strength and conditioning program. The CrossFit program is designed to elicit as broad an adaptational response as possible. CrossFit is not a specialized fitness program but a deliberate attempt to optimize physical competence in each of ten recognized fitness domains. They are as follows:
Cardiovascular and Respiratory Endurance
Stamina
Strength
Flexibility
Power
Speed
Coordination
Balance
Accuracy
Agility
World class fitness in 100 words
“Eat meat and vegetables, nuts and seeds, some fruit, little starch and no sugar. Keep intake to levels that will support exercise but not body fat. Practice and train major lifts: deadlift, clean, squat, presses, C&J, and snatch. Similarly, master the basics of gymnastics: pull-ups, dips, rope climb, push-ups, sit-ups, presses to handstand, pirouettes, flips, splits, and holds. Bike, run, swim, row, etc, hard and fast. Five or six days per week mix these elements in as many combinations and patterns as creativity will allow. Routine is the enemy. Keep workouts short and intense. Regularly learn and play new sports.”
