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

Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Day 16:
Burpee Buy-In: 136
Burpees Remaining: 4,914

THROW YOURSELF INTO YOUR WORK
Here is where good performance breaks through to great performance: How much you throw yourself into what you do, how much you commit yourself to discipline, how much you push beyond the comfort zone. How much you surrender your soul and your body to the task at hand is the measure of your talent. And these are choices, decisions about who you are and decisions about how you live. And they are choices for continuity -- not just an inspired week or month, but a dedicated lifetime. This surely is well beyond mere language and words. But if we talk about training, we start with language and words, so that people can after that make the personal lifestyle and identity choices to be the kind of living person that they describe in the language that they use.


Sound familiar? CrossFit is the physical embodiment of life - and it begins with words and language. Every time we practice "throwing ourselves into what we do, surrendering our soul and body to the task at hand," we are practicing this "skill" for every aspect of life. Training in CrossFit is training for life. What do you think?

Today's WOD:
4 x 500m Row
- rest 2.5 - 5 min between efforts
- make each row a max effort

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