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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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Monday, August 06, 2007
Parkour on a Sunday
Yesterday I finally had some free time - on a Sunday if you'd believe it - so I headed down to the regular Melbourne Parkour session. We met at the wave sculpture in the Arts Precinct and from there proceeded to the adjacent gardens in order to get dirty rolling around on the freshly rained on grass. From there it was off to Southgate to run up some daunting walls and hang from some trees and other groovy structures. Just the kind of thing that the hyperactive child within wanted.

It's amazing how after only 2 hours of focused Parkour training I'm already looking at the urban environment a little differently. I'm wondering if I could jump over that or scale this. It's fun and it's functional and it sure beats sitting on your ass.

Beau goes precise

Interested in climbing, jumping, running, rolling, vaulting and more? Check out the Australian Parkour Assoc. website for all the info.

A big thanks to Blair for inviting me along.

Ciao for now, Adam.

Image sourced from Parkour Australia, please visit and show them some love.
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