Optimize Your Health

Burn 14 Calories per minute in CrossFit versus the average gym workout of 10 Calories per minute.

In today’s modern world we need a modern exercise program, enter CrossFit. Get more out of your workout in less time than a traditional visit to your local ‘Globo Gym’. The below Ideals are concepts from the CrossFit Journal, please take a moment to visit their site.

Fitness Across All Categories

Train in all facets of fitness. Olympic lifts: Squats, Deadlift, Bench Press, Clean & Jerk, and Snatch. Gymnastics: push-ups, handstand push-ups, dips, rope climbs, pull-ups. General Fitness: swim, run, bike, row, carry. These are just some of the many facets of fitness we will practice.

Nutrition

Eat meat and vegetables, nuts and seeds, some fruit, little starch and no sugar. Keep intake to levels that will support exercise but not body fat.

Routine is the enemy

No day will be the same, mix all of these elements in combinations that result in endless opportunity for fun and interesting workouts.

Created in the Lab (of fitness)

CrossFit is popular among the men and women of the armed forces as well as professional athletes.

Cardiovascular Benefits

Research shows there is a link between fitness (work capacity) and Heart Health.

Crossfit’s First Fitness Standard

Lists ten recognized general physical skills: cardiovascular endurance, stamina, strength, flexibility, power, coordination, agility, balance, and accuracy.

Crossfit’s Second Fitness Standard

This standard invokes the image of a hopper and asks that you consider all fitness tasks possible and place them within the hopper. Now, randomly pick tasks from the hopper and test your ability to perform these task. How well you perform at these is a representation of your fitness level.

Crossfit’s Third Fitness Standard

The third standard describes the three metabolic pathways we use for energy. The pathways cover short, medium, and long range activities. The goal is for us to maximize all three of these pathways, not just a single one as is often the case amongst specialized fitness disciplines.

CONSTANTLY VARIED

HIGH INTENSITY

FUNCTIONAL MOVEMENT

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