CrossFit is the principal strength and conditioning program for many police academies and tactical operations teams, military special operations units, champion martial artists, and hundreds of other elite and professional athletes worldwide.
The CrossFit program delivers a fitness that is, by design, broad, general, and inclusive. Our specialty is not specializing. Combat, survival, many sports, and life reward this kind of fitness and, on average, punish the specialist.
The CrossFit program is designed for universal scalability making it the perfect application for any committed individual regardless of experience. We’ve used our same routines for elderly individuals with heart disease and cage fighters one month out from televised bouts. We scale load and intensity; we don’t change programs.
CrossFit offers seminars, trainer certifications, and training and regularly provide consultation services to athletic teams, coaches, and police and military agencies throughout the free world.
The needs of Olympic athletes and our grandparents differ by degree not kind. Our terrorist hunters, skiers, mountain bike riders and housewives have found their best fitness from the same regimen.
Thousands of athletes worldwide have followed CrossFit workouts posted daily on the main site and distinguished themselves in combat, the streets, the ring, stadiums, gyms and homes.
CrossFit also publishes the CrossFit Journal, designed to support the CrossFit community detailing the theory, techniques, and practice d by our coaches in our gym, in essence bringing your garage or gym into ours, making you a part of the CrossFit family.
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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.
Read the Article: What is Fitness? http://www.crossfit.com/cf-download/CFJ-trial.pdf
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Why Small Group Training?
- Transparency
- There is no strangers and no where to hide in small group training
- Accountability
- If you don't show up we will call you and your classmates will ask about you
- Competition
- There is no bigger motivator than competing side-by-side with others
- Collective Experience
- We all learn from each other and through each other
- Camaraderie
- Otherwise unobtainable outside of military or athletics
Small Group Training allows you to split the cost of personal training or fitness coaching while maximizing your results and your experience. It truly is the optimum training model bringing together the best of all worlds. Our classes are all 4-8 people in size. Once you experience Small Group Training you will not go back.
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How to Start On Your Own:
We recommend three distinct approaches for beginning CrossFit depending on your fitness experience and available facilities.
1) If you are largely familiar with the stable of CrossFit exercises then starting with the WOD (Workout of the Day) is a perfect place to start. If you've had exposure to Olympic weightlifting, powerlifting, and gymnastics this is the recommended approach to beginning CrossFit. Where our terminology or an exercise is unfamiliar you can immediately acquaint yourself with the movement by finding the video clip for the movement from our exercises section of the site. This is often the best starting approach for athletes with an extensive experience in athletic strength and conditioning - jump right in.
2) If some or many of the exercises are unfamiliar to you and you are only modestly acquainted with elite athletic training then we recommend that you follow the WOD and substitute other exercises for those where you don't have either the equipment or skill and then devise a plan for acquisition of the necessary skills or equipment needed to participate completely. We are developing a Substitution Chart in the FAQ for replacing exercises for which you've not developed the skills or don't have the equipment.
3) If many or most of the exercises are relatively or completely unknown to you, then we recommend that you begin learning the movements for a month or two until you can either perform our common exercises or have substitutions worked out for those movements under development. This is a great place to begin for anyone with little or no experience with serious weightlifting or gymnastics. We are developing supplementary workouts designed to introduce our stable of basic movements building towards the capacity to productively follow the WOD with substitutions, and will post that material here soon.
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