First of all... let's answer the question, 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. CrossFit has used the 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.
The needs of Olympic athletes and our grandparents differ by degree not kind. Our terrorist hunters, skiers, mountain bike riders and housewives have found their best fitness from the same regimen.
- *adapted from “What is CrossFit” from CrossFit.com
Our Class Format:
Currently we have 5 classes per day on weekdays. Classes consist of small groups that are led through a complete workout by an experienced and certified CrossFit intructor.
Every class begins with an instructor guided warm-up. The warm-up changes depending on what skills we are focusing on that day. Warm-ups may also include an individual element where you spend time working on an area of particular weakness under the guidance of a coach.
Following the warm-up we progress to the skill or strength portion. Three days out of the week we spend a significant portion of our time on strength development. It’s our experience that everybodybenefits from getting stronger. That being said, we have a strength-training program we overlay with our general conditioning program (CrossFit). Within both programs we work on speed, agility, balance, coordination, lateral movement drills, and many other general physical skills.
Following the skill or strength portion of the class, the trainer reviews the movements and standards of the conditioning workout. This is the time for instruction and personal feedback. This is where individuals find weights and modifications that are appropriate for them. We often have a suggested weight and movement standard, which we call “prescribed” but there is absolutely no obligation to abide by this. Prescribed is meant to be difficult, if you can do a workout as it’s written on the board, you’re doing pretty well. However, we insist that you do what is appropriate, regardless of what is written. In fact, the vast majority of our members have their workouts modified by the instructor in some way.
When people are set-up and all questions answered, it’s 3-2-1-GO time. The class works side-by-side. As people finish, their results are tallied on the whiteboard, and cheer athletes on who are wrapping up their workout.
What can I expect on my first day?
We know CrossFit can be very intimidating so your first day will not be very intense or hard. We will lead you through a warm-up of basic movements, teach you 1-3 new basic skills and then give you a workout in which the intensity (how hard the workout is) will be entirely up to you. If we feel confident in your fitness ability we will allow you to go as hard as you want at the workout. If you have not worked out in a while or ever you will be encouraged to take your time and finish the workout. Then we will lead you through a cool down. All within 1 hour.
*If you still have more questions and would like to know more about what we do please do not hesitate to contact us through our contact form or email us or 281-627-4302 and ask for Jose.