CrossFit By The Horns
“Never give up your desire to be what you want to be. Stay focused, persistent and relentless.”
CrossFit is a lifestyle characterized by safe, effective exercise and sound nutrition. CrossFit can be used to accomplish any goal, from improved health to weight loss to better performance. The program works for everyone—people who are just starting out and people who have trained for years.
One of the approaches to fitness we use at Rack House Fitness is CrossFit. It is a strength and conditioning program based on functional body movements and drawing from the disciplines of Olympic weightlifting, gymnastics, and cardio. Workouts are constantly varied with intensity being a consistent component. The idea is to challenge the body beyond previously experienced limits, through variations of speed, time, weight, reps as well as combinations of movements. Workouts are almost never exactly the same and challenges participants in ways other workouts can not. Our athletes run, jump, row, lift weights, do pull-ups, throw balls, squat, jump rope, and more.
The methodology of CrossFit is appropriate for athletes of ALL levels; workouts and movements are always scalable and adaptable.
What is it?
CrossFit is a lifestyle characterized by safe, effective exercise and sound nutrition. CrossFit can be used to accomplish any goal, from improved health to weight loss to better performance. The program works for everyone—people who are just starting out and people who have trained for years.
The magic is in the movements. Workouts are different every day and modified to help each athlete achieve his or her goals. CrossFit workouts can be adapted for people at any age and level of fitness. People begin by getting fit and stay for the accountability and camaraderie of the community. People encourage and motivate each other in every class as they work toward their goals.
CrossFit works to build capacity in the ten general physical skills: cardiovascular/respiratory endurance, stamina, strength, flexibility, power, coordination, agility, balance, and accuracy. It also requires capacity in all three of the main metabolic energy pathways driving human action and movement.
Yes, everyone can do it.
The above is the foundation of CrossFit, which has now become a worldwide fitness phenomenon. One of the things that sets CrossFit apart from other exercise programs is that it recognizes that all athletes (from the senior citizen, to the stay-at-home mom, to the high school soccer star, to the weekend warrior, to the Olympic medalist, to the professional athlete) have the same requirements for an effective fitness program. The differences among their needs relate to intensity and volume, but not type of training. Functional body movements that are varied and executed at high intensity are key to the development of optimal fitness in all athletes.
