People ask, why CrossFit?
Fitness means many things to a lot of different people. To a runner, cyclist or swimmer it’s endurance and speed. To a weight trainer or powerlifter, its strength and power. To a gymnast or athlete it’s poise, it’s balance, it’s strength and, even, virtuosity.
But why specialise? Why can’t fitness mean all of that?
The essence of CrossFit is to be able to do whatever is in front of you. To train your body and mind to be able to deal with constantly varied physical demands.
CrossFit defines fitness as, “Work capacity over broad time and modal domains.”
This means you can run and powerlift. You can sprint and weight train. You can do strongman and gymnastics. You can do long or short, endurance or explosive, grace and balance, or strength and power workouts.
CrossFit is developing your whole fitness. Not just one aspect. It is continual variation to make your body adapt to whatever you want it to do.
And this is what you can expect from a CrossFit class.
Each day you come you’ll face something different. It could be a heavy or light day. The workout might be short or long. It might be weight training or bodyweight. We’ll focus on different areas of fitness, to develop your total fitness.
While you’ll never quite be sure how you might be challenged each day, you can be certain you’ll leave fitter, and that there will always be something new to learn and to master.
So, why CrossFit? Because it develops the whole you.
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