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, August 6, 2009

Thursday Video Post ... Courtesy of CrossFitLA

Andy Petranek, Founder of CrossFit LA and overall 41 year-old bad-ass, posted this to his site today. If we focus on form and so much on bodyweight movements and lifting movements, why would we not focus on our running form. Running is not fun for most people - myself included - but this video is hilariously accurate for why we do what we do ...

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