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Total fitness with CrossFit

Écrit par Richard

Dimanche, 06 Juin 2010 09:34

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Have you ever found yourself in a gym wondering why you are so bored? Then you may be interested in the CrossFit programme.

CrossFit was created by two Olympic gymnasts as a complete fitness programme. It combines activities in several domains such as weightlifting, sprinting and gymnastics to cover exercises in ten different domains: cardiovascular/respiratory endurance, stamina, strength, flexibility, power, speed, agility, balance, coordination, and accuracy.

Its base idea is to include a broad range of exercises and activities that will improve ability across the ten different domains. Other exercise regimens tend to specialise in particular areas. It was designed for professionals such as police, military and firemen that needed to perform a large variety of tasks.

CrossFit applies compound movements and short but high intensity cardiovascular sessions which are radically more effective in provoking a fitness result. Traditional exercise programmes provide isolated movements and longer but lower intensity cardiovascular sessions.

Is CrossFit just for professional athletes and army personnel? Well, according to CrossFit, everyone should improve their fitness through the base methods, it’s just that everyone should do so to a different degree of intensity.

According to CrossFit, their method establishes:

“a hierarchy of effort and concern that builds as follows:

Diet - lays the molecular foundations for fitness and health.
Metabolic Conditioning - builds capacity in each of three metabolic pathways, beginning with aerobic, then lactic acid, and then phosphocreatine pathways.
Gymnastics - establishes functional capacity for body control and range of motion.
Weightlifting and throwing - develop ability to control external objects and produce power.
Sport - applies fitness in competitive atmosphere with more randomized movements and skill mastery.”

For more information on the foundations of CrossFit, consult their introduction.

CNN has a short video showing some of the activities that are performed during a CrossFit class:

In many ways, CrossFit is similar to many of the ideals that are expounded within ConnectionZen. The overarching concept is that balance in life needs to be obtained by living as much as possible in the way that the body has evolved. CrossFit, in many ways, does this for fitness by balancing exercises across the domains that the caveman required.

If you’d like to increase your fitness level, and you should to be healthy, why not give CrossFit a go?

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CrossFit & http://library.crossfit.com/free/pdf/Foundations.pdf
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