What is CrossFit ?

CrossFit is an evidence based strength and conditioning program built on consistently varied, if not randomized, functional movements executed at high intensity. It was developed to enhance every individual’s competency at all physical tasks. CrossFit started in Santa Cruz and is now an international fitness program with over 450 affiliates worldwide. We are a private fitness program where clients can workout only under the direction of a CrossFit certified trainer.

Who can participate in CrossFit ?

CrossFit can be adapted to all ages and ability levels. We have proven success with children, elite athletes, and older adults. The CrossFit approach challenges an individual at their current level of fitness and progressively moves each person to greater levels of fitness.

What kind of results can expect ?

You can expect improvement in all areas such as cardio endurance, stamina,  strength, flexibilty, power , speed, coordination, agility , balance and accuracy. As a result in improvement in these areas, one can expect increase in lean muscle and decreased body fat.

What if I don’t want to be an athlete; I just want to be healthy?

You're in luck. We hear this often, but the truth is that fitness, wellness, and pathology (sickness) are measures of the same entity, your health. There are a multitude of measurable parameters that can be ordered from sick (pathological) to well (normal) to fit (better than normal). These include but are not limited to blood pressure, cholesterol, heart rate, body fat, muscle mass, flexibility, and strength. It seems as though all of the body functions that can go awry have states that are pathological, normal, and exceptional and that elite athletes typically show these parameters in the exceptional range. The CrossFit view is that fitness and health are the same thing. It is also interesting to notice that the health professional maintains your health with drugs and surgery each with potentially undesirable side effect whereas the CrossFit Coach typically achieves a superior result always with "side benefit" vs. side effect.

Examples of CrossFit exercises

Biking, running, swimming, and rowing in an endless variety of drills. The clean&jerk, snatch, squat, deadlift, push-press, bench-press, and power-clean. Jumping, medicine ball throws and catches, pull-ups, dips, push-ups, handstands, presses to handstand, pirouettes, kips, cartwheels, muscle-ups, sit-ups, scales, and holds. We make regular use of bikes, the track, rowing shells and ergometers, Olympic weight sets, rings, parallel bars, free exercise mat, horizontal bar, plyometrics boxes, medicine balls, and jump rope. There isn’t a strength and conditioning program anywhere that works with a greater diversity of tools, modalities, and drills.

What should I eat?

In plain language, base your diet on garden vegetables, especially greens, lean meats, nuts and seeds, little starch, and no sugar. That’s about as simple as we can get. Many have observed that keeping your grocery cart to the perimeter of the grocery store while avoiding the aisles is a great way to protect your health. Food is perishable. The stuff with long shelf life is all circumspect. If you follow these simple guidelines you will benefit from nearly all that can be achieved through nutrition.

Im a female, will I get bulky?

No. You have to train a certain way to get big and bulky. We don’t train that way. If you don’t believe us, check out olympic athletes as a point of reference. They often work out twice a day lifting heavy weights hundreds of times and they don’t look big and bulky, just fit and athletic.

A lot of people don't know it, but to get big, you have to eat big. Men and women "bodybuilders" who have that ridiculous bulky look have to eat double or triple our recommended daily amounts to feed those massive muscles. That's not what we're about at CrossFit.

If you want to have the body of an athlete, you have to train like an athlete.

CrossFit Women WOD December 12, 2008 from CrossFit Central on Vimeo.