Why CrossFit?

August 28, 2008 · Filed Under Crossfit Metro Blog

“What makes CrossFit different than regular resistance training?”

The quintessential CrossFit training question that comes up at least twice a day with new prospects. Below are my top 5 reasons why I believe CrossFit works for those serious about fitness training and productive workouts:

Top 5 reasons why CrossFit works

CrossFit is hard - First and foremost, so, deal with it. It is physiologically impossible to obtain significant weight loss, strength gain and true cardiovascular endurance with easy workouts. Period. If anyone tries to convince you otherwise, walk away. It’s a boldface lie.
CrossFit uses a variety of movements - Repetition is boring, and worse, less productive than utilizing a wide range of movements from a variety of athletic disciplines. CrossFit keeps things interesting.
Most top athletes CrossFit - And they may not even know it - or call it as such; but, CrossFit is nothing new with regards to the exercises and intensity. Instead, it offers a varied mixture of a wide range of specific training methodologies that create strong, capable athletes such as boxers, gymnasts, weightlifters, and runners.
CrossFit utilizes the sport of fitness - Healthy competition associated with fitness training helps drive individuals to push a little harder and attack a workout a little stronger, all in an effort to perhaps be a little better than the next guy - or, improve upon the individual’s last performance. The ego is a terrible thing to waste [sic]
CrossFit works - The most important element of all. No other current methodology around the exercise and fitness scene today is producing more fit athletes and trainees than CrossFit.

Know of something better?

Bring it! We’ll try it - then, you’ll try ours.

Lastly, as someone who scours Craigslist and Ebay for additional, basic equipment for the gym, it’s interesting to note that no one seems to be selling-off their kettle bells, medicine balls, GHD machines, dip stations. rings, pull-up bars, plyometric boxes …etc etc

But, there sure are a friggin’ lot of all-in-one machines, Gold’s Gym bench press units, ellipticals, and the always laughable Bowflex versions littering the online commerce sites in mass

Wonder why? {wink}

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