What is CrossFit?
CrossFit 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.
—Greg Glassman, CrossFit Founder
- Found by Greg Glassman in 2000.
- Trainer and Gymnast
- According to Glassman, fitness is defined as” increased work capacity across broad time and modal domains”.
- Capacity refers to the ability to do real measurable work in the terms of force, distance and time. Since life is unpredictable therefore real world fitness must be broad in terms of duration or time and effort or modal domain.
- It is a strength and conditioning program that was designed to help people gain a broad and general fitness.
- All workouts are based on functional movement or the core movements of life.
- The workout of the day (WOD) is performed at high intensity and rarely lasts longer than 20 to 30 minutes.
- WODs are constantly varied so people are prepared for amy physical challenge.
- ” Universal Scalability”
- Regardless of a person’s background goals, age or fitness level the same workouts and routines are done. However, the intensity and weights are scaled.
- Currently there are over 5,5000 CrossFit affiliates worldwide.
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