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THE FIRST CROSSFIT
STANDARD OF FITNESS

There are ten recognised general physical skills. They are cardiovascular/respiratory endurance, stamina, strength, speed, flexibility, power, coordination, agility, balance, and accuracy.

You are as fit as you are competent in each of these ten skills. A regimen develops fitness to the extent that it improves each of these ten skills.
Importantly, improvements in endurance, stamina, strength, and flexibility come about through training.

THE SECOND CROSSFIT
STANDARD OF FITNESS

The essence of this model is the view that fitness is about performing well at any and every task imaginable. This model suggests that your fitness can be measured by your capacity to perform well at these tasks in relation to other individuals.

The implication here is that fitness requires an ability to perform well at all tasks, even unfamiliar tasks, tasks combined in infinitely varying combinations. In practice this encourages the athlete to disinvest in any set notions of sets, rest periods, reps, exercises, order of exercises, routines, periodization, etc.

THE THIRD CROSSFIT
STANDARD OF FITNESS

There are three metabolic pathways that provide the energy for all human action.

Total fitness, the fitness that CrossFit promotes and develops, requires competency and training in each of these three pathways or engines.

Balancing the effects of these three pathways largely determines the how and why of the metabolic conditioning or “cardio” that we do at CrossFit.

Favoring one or two to the exclusion of the others and not recognising the impact of excessive training in the oxidative pathway are arguably the two most common faults in fitness training.

 

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Saturday, June 09, 2007
Erica shows the boys how to workout
Would you believe that the day I leave my camera at home turns out to be one of the best workouts of the current intensive at South Yarra?

The workout:
  • 1000m row
  • 100 wall ball shots
  • 750m row
  • 75 wall ball shots
  • 500m row
  • 50 wall ball shots
The Model E Concept 2s were upstairs and the wall downstairs so the transition was no place for rest. Most participants turned up worse for wear after a bad night's sleep (were the planets misaligned?).

And the kicker? My wife, Erica, who by her own admission hadn't worked out in 12 months - even with my numerous attempts to the contrary - smokes the boys and ends the workout about 2 minutes before the boys. I may be a little biased but this is an impressive effort. She said later that she found the zone. I don't know a coach anywhere who doesn't like hearing that.

By the way: the boys did well too. :o)

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