Crossfit

Crossfit: If you haven't been made aware yet, I highly recommend you take a good chunk of time and unearth the world of Crossfit. The best place to start would be on the main page www.crossfit.com in the left hand column there are tabs for "What is Crossfit?" and such which will help you understand fully the scope of what the program entails.

That being said, I Love Crossfit, it is a workout beyond anything I had ever known for my first three month indoctrination. It is a psychological and physiological addiction that if you have the mental stamina can bring you "into the light" so to speak. Having been a certified personal trainer for a relatively well established "Globo" gym I had a lot of knowledge under my belt and had the where with all to achieve any body type I wanted, but had found a void in my life. In gym training had gotten me a good lean and stacked body, but a sense of achievement was still lacking. Crossfit suggests a new way of thinking, they take the traditional "workout" and turn it on its head by combining multiple fitness areas such as gymnastics, Kettle Bells, Olympic Lifts, Rowing and Running into a single goal oriented workout. They took the body results out of it. No longer were clients focusing on solely their weight, but they focused on technique and winning. A new attitude was born for the gym going public.

Many skeptics say that the speed at which the exercises are performed is often to high and thus sacrifices the total form of each rep. I agree, a major problem facing the CF (Slang for Crossfit) affiliates is the scaling is all jumbled up at the moment, and although often the first half of a WOD (Workout Of the Day) is focused on skill, it takes years to perfect some of these skills. The answer is in a strong trainer to client ratio and in the need to count correct reps instead of sloppy reps. There has been some buzz about Crossfit HQ revamping the certification to emphasis these problems and most certainly the measuring stick has been brought out for the CF games this year as form takes center stage.

So, I invite you to visit an affiliate near you and try it out, or take a WOD from the main site and try it out. Let me know what you think.......