What is CrossFit?

CrossFit is the principal strength and conditioning program for many police academies and tactical operations teams, military special operations units, champion martial artists, and hundreds of other elite and professional athletes worldwide. Our program delivers a fitness that is, by design, broad, general, and inclusive. Our specialty is not specializing. Combat, survival, many sports, and life reward this kind of fitness and, on average, punish the specialist.The CrossFit program is designed for universal scalability making it the perfect application for any committed individual regardless of experience. We’ve used our same routines for elderly individuals with heart disease and cage fighters one month out from televised bouts. We scale load and intensity; we don’t change programs.

- CrossFit.com

Thursday, January 29, 2009

Body Over Mind ...

The thing I love most about CF is that it pushes you like nothing else in this world. I've come to realize that the weakness we have is of our mind, not our body. When I first started CF over a year ago, I listened to my mind during workouts ... "stop, stop, you can't do this ... three out of five rounds is good, right? why finish the last two when you're so damn tired!!" I can still hear it.

Then I had a breakthrough on "Angie" (100 Pull Ups, 100 Push Ups, 100 Sit Ups, 100 Squats) only a month or two after starting CF. I did 100 pull ups ... barely! Then started in on push ups. I had to resort to single push ups for the last 76 reps! LAST 76 REPS AS SINGLES ... ARE YOU KIDDING ME!?! That's when it hit home - your body will recover faster than your mind. I focused my mind to numb out the pain and finished it 1 at time.

Once you get your mind out of the equation and let your body do what's it was built to do ... you'll find out what your limits are ... if there are any????

GO BE STRONG TODAY!!!

100 Day Burpee Challenge:
Day 39:
Burpees To Date: 780
Burpees Remaining: 4,270

Today's WOD:
Skills Work ... If you have some rings, play around with them! have you tried a cartwheel in awhile? One CF aspect you haven't seen here on this site is Gymnastic movements ... pick one and practice, practice practice!

Naim "Pocket Hercules" Suleymanuglu performing a 190 kg Clean and Jerk at a body weight of 60 kg. Just the 7th person in history to C&J 3 x his body weight.

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