CONSTANTLY VARIED
A bodybuilder will smoke us if we compete with them in bodybuilding exercises. A distance runner will smash us if we compete with them in distance running. Get either of these guys out of their domain and we will crush them because we aren’t great at any one thing, we’re really good at a bunch of disciplines.
We vary our workouts because it gets us results quickly and the results keep coming! For example, if we always did three sets of ten in a lifting exercise we would be great at doing three sets of ten in that exercise – but that’s about it. We vary to keep muscles & the skeletal system shocked and adapting.

HIGH-INTENSITY
Intensity is the key to results. How loud we scream or what our heart rate is running is a weak indicator of intensity. Intensity is nothing more than a measurable exact equal of power. We measure intensity by how much work we do in a set amount of time.

FUNCTIONAL
We do exercises designed by our muscular and skeletal systems. Motions that nature intended! Isolation exercises and most machines and lifting routines use unnatural motions. Our exercises use what we call the “universal motor recruitment pattern” which, again, is how we were designed to move.

All our exercises must be efficient and effective, essential, compound, elemental and safe to be used in CrossFit. Efficient and effective are self explanatory. Essential movements are movements essential to function. If we lose essential movements we lose the capacity to function and end up in assisted living facilities. As human beings we must have competence in essential motions to function in society. If we are military, law enforcement, firefighters, etc. we must have dominance, not just competence, with essential motions. Compound means NO isolation. With isolation comes the loss of the essence of motion. Elemental means that it cannot be further reduced – basic body movements. Finally we have safe. CrossFit is safe because we are doing movements that the body is designed to do.
CrossFit has swept the nation’s elite athlete training as well as special forces military units, MMA fighters, law enforcement and firefighters because it gets real life results…..and the results keep coming.

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