What Is CrossFit?
CrossFit is a fitness and conditioning program developed through many years of watching, working with, and coaching all types of people - from those considered "normal and average", to top athletes. The theory - take what worked best from the sports and movements that create the most versatile athletes (gymnastics and weightlifting), and throw the rest out. Actually, the system really created itself - if a workout or an exercise proved functional and got great results (ie-challenged you to the bone), it stayed in the system. If not, well, you got the picture. CrossFit is what remains - bar non, the most effective fitness and conditioning system in the world!
Forging Elite Fitness. "CrossFit begins with a belief in fitness. The aim of CrossFit is to forge a broad, general and inclusive fitness. We have sought to build a program that will best prepare trainees for any physical contingency — not only for the unknown but for the unknowable. After looking at all sport and physical tasks collectively, we asked what physical skills and adaptations would most universally lend themselves to performance advantage. Capacity culled from the intersection of all sports demands would quite logically lend itself well to all sport. In sum, our specialty is not specializing." For more information, visit the CrossFit Website.