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What is Fitness?
What is Fitness?
  • Diet Prescription

    • WHAT IS CROSSFIT?

    CrossFit is the principal strength and conditioning program for many police academies and tactical teams, firemen, military special operations units, champion martial artists and hundreds of other elite and professional athletes worldwide.  However, it is designed for universal adaptability, making it the perfect application for any committed individual regardless of age, gender or ability.

    WHY WE TRAIN

    "Do not fear death. Fear the nursing home."
    Coach Greg Glassman-CrossFit Creator

    Total fitness is not bodybuilding or conventional weightlifting.  Machines and performing single muscle exercises are not practical or functional in life or sport.  Total fitness is not sport specific and it most certainly is not long distance cardio efforts.  It does not separate muscle strength and conditioning from cardio.  Total fitness is having balance in all of the body's general physical skills as well as aerobic and anaerobic systems (metabolic pathways).  Competence in one at the exclusion or deficit of the other is not total fitness.

    The general physical skills of total fitness as originally defined by Jim Crawley and adopted by CrossFitters everywhere are:

  • Cardiovascular/Respiratory Endurance
  • Stamina
  • Strength
  • Flexibility
  • Power
  • Speed
  • Coordination
  • Agility
  • Balance
  • Accuracy

    Your body's energy systems (metabolic pathways) provide energy for all human action.  A foundation of total fitness requires training in each pathway:

  • Phosphagen engine (anaerobic) dominates the highest powered activities (those that generally last less than 10 seconds.)
  • Glycolytic engine (anaerobic) dominates moderate powered activities (those that generally last up to several minutes.)
  • Oxidative engine (aerobic) dominates low-powered activities that last in excess of several minutes.

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    “A weightlifter will never run a marathon and a marathoner will never squat 300 lbs.  But we can easily show you a "CrossFit" individual who could give both a run for their money.”

    The specialty is not specializing. . .you are only as fit as your weakest link.
    "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.