CrossFit

CrossFit is a fitness training method that is marketed by the same U.S. company and weightlifting, sprinting, weight exercises and gymnastics together. Your goal is to balance the trainees in various fitness activities to develop: endurance (cardiovascular / respiratory endurance and stamina ), strength (power and strength ), agility, quickness, agility, balance, coordination and accuracy. CrossFit defines fitness as increased performance in all these areas.

CrossFit exercisers run, row, jump rope, climb rope and carry highly unusual objects. They quickly move large loads over long distances and put a powerlifting and weightlifting techniques. Next they use dumbbells, gymnastics rings, pull-up bars, kettlebells, and many bodyweight exercises. In 2009, CrossFit was offered in nearly 2,000 training facilities worldwide. It is used by various police, fire and military organizations as part of their fitness program, including the Canadian Forces and the Danish Life Guards regiment.

Training procedure

CrossFit workouts last around an hour and consist of

• Warm up ( warm-up )
• Skill training (skill development), possibly associated with strength exercises,
• A ten - to twenty-minute high-intensity training ( conditioning ),
• Stretching.

The core of each unit is executed with very high intensity execution of training exercises ( conditioning ). Each unit ( also Workout of the Day ( WOD ) called ) usually consists of a number of different exercises that can be performed in several rounds. Either a predetermined number of rounds to be performed in less time as possible, or at a predetermined time a possible number of rounds. The training is replaced by a competitive nature and is the basis of competitive regular CrossFit.

Workouts are put together by CrossFit certified trainers themselves or be posted on the CrossFit website. This includes a set of standardized training sessions, which are used as a benchmark for the measurement of training progress and wear women's first names, for example:

• " Cindy " 5 pull ups, 10 push ups, 15 squats; as many rounds as possible in 20 minutes
• " Fran": Thruster ( squat and 95 -pound dumbbells lift over the head ) and pull-ups; 21/15/9 reps in the shortest possible time

Competitions

As part of the annual " CrossFit Games" CrossFit is operated competitively since 2007. In 2010, the prize money for the winner and the winner was $ 25,000. This prize money in 2010 was sponsored by food supplement manufacturers PROGENEX before Reebok 2011, the main sponsorship took over and the prize money in both 2011 and 2012 firmly set at 250,000 dollars. In the years 2011, 2012 and 2013, both Rich Froning dominated in men than in 2011 and 2012 Anni Thorisdottir and 2013 Samantha Briggs in the women's field of CrossFitters at the Reebok CrossFit Games.

Business

CrossFit does not offer any training; Instead, the company is funded by course fees and royalties the coach ( " affiliates " ), which are independent of the rest of CrossFit. According to the company, the company is not a franchising system, but understands its affiliates as "covenant legitimate health practitioners who have united to ... Exercises and resources under the CrossFit name."

CrossFit offers three courses for coaches to: a two-day "Level 1 Trainer's Certificate Course" which is concluded with a written multiple-choice test; also a two-day " Coach's Prep " course; and a "Level 2 Coach's Course", which consists of a written test and a performance test.

Who has a "Level 1 " certificate, may apply for an annual fee of 3000 USD to become a partner ( affilitate ), and open his own CrossfitBox.

Reception

CrossFit was " variously as a fitness company, a health - popular movement, an emerging sport, a fad, a publishing business and sometimes disparagingly referred to as a cult. "

Some CrossFit athletes take advantage of the free training and educational videos from the CrossFit website, rather than to train at a CrossFit box ( affiliate ).

CrossFit CrossFit Inc. certified trainer due to positive exams taken and licensed the name CrossFit for the CrossFit boxes. Participants will be free to offer their own training program individually priced and teaching methods. Many CrossFit athletes and trainers see themselves as part of a contrarian insurgency, which provides conventional fitness wisdom into question. The virtual community in the form of, for example, Exchange in forums is remarkable in CrossFit. The company says that this decentralized approach has some similar characteristics in common with open source software projects, and allows the best performance that arises from a variety of different approaches. An assertion which is, however, disputed by some experts and partners who have separated themselves from CrossFit. CrossFit offers programs for children, pregnant women, seniors, football players, candidates for military special forces and endurance athletes such as triathletes, runners, swimmers and rowers. This is made possible mainly by adapting and scaling of the exercises used on the individual performance of each individual trainee. CrossFit has been adopted by Baseball American and Canadian high school physical education teachers, high school college teams and a team of Major League.

History

CrossFit was developed by former high-school gymnast Greg Glassman and his ex-wife Lauren Glassman 1980. The first CrossFit gym was opened in 1995 in Santa Cruz, in the same year, in which Glassman was hired to train the police in Santa Cruz. In a seven-week test, which was conducted in 2005 in Gagetown, New Brunswickan at the Canadian Infantry School, scored CrossFit in most fitness categories better results compared with the previous physical training program. In the category of the vertical jump, however, a CrossFit group achieved a reduction in the average height of 0.7 cm, while the control group achieved a slight increase in the average jump height. In addition, there was another CrossFit group no increase in the execution of the pull-ups, while the control group showed a slight increase. The number of partners ( affilitates ) grew from 18 in 2005 to almost 1,700 in 2010. Trainer for weight lifting that are associated with CrossFit, among other Louie Simmons, Bill Starr and Mike Burgener. Former NFL player John Welbourn developed the CrossFit Football program. Other experts at CrossFit are Nicholas Romanov, inventor of the Pose Method of running and Barry Sears, founder of the Zone Diet. Earlier Relevant fitness experts are Mark Twight, Dan John, Mark Rippetoe, Robb Wolf, Garrett Smith and Greg Everett. CrossFit also offers special seminars for example, gymnastics, Olympic weightlifting, powerlifting, running and endurance, kettlebells, mobility and recovery, CrossFit Kids and CrossFit Football, concluded with a certificate of. In the past, a skipping rope certification was offered.

Criticism

A United States Navy sailor who has suffered injuries while performing a CrossFit workout, claimed that CrossFit is an increased risk of developing rhabdomyolysis. He successfully sued his coach and received $ 300,000 in damages. According to Stuart McGill, a professor of spine biomechanics at the University of Waterloo, the risk of injury outweighs some CrossFit exercises when they are performed with a poor embodiment in temporary workouts, the health benefits. He added that there were similar risks in other exercise programs, but it is possible by the CrossFit online community athletes to carry out the program without proper exercise execution, which increases the risk.

Other critics regarding CrossFit refer to the lack of periodization, illogical or random exercise sequences and the problem of accreditation of standards for trainers and partners ..

Support

Tony Webster, a lecturer of the Pacific Institute for Sports Medicine at Camosun College in Victoria British Columbia recommends CrossFit " safe and reasonable" to exercise and support the program in the current academic research: " It can be said with certainty that a CrossFit training program, which is three to five times performed per week, corresponding to a high probability of a weekly dose of " energetic " gymnastic exercises which current general health guidelines easily meet. More and more studies show that the efficiency of the shorter, executed at high intensity exercises not only improve fitness, but also a whole range of health markers. In fact, there are many scientific evidence that strong activity naturally brings more health benefits than moderate activity. Apply safe and sensible, CrossFit has the potential not only to change people's lives, but to change the fitness industry for the better. "

The editors of PureHealthMD, who writes for the Discovery Health Channel, finds that CrossFit " better fitness and stronger muscles in a reasonable amount of time causes " as compared to " several times to build muscle in the gym for 60 minutes or more per week and in to take shape ... " Their conclusion was that the program" a different kind of workout routine ... a well rounded and very efficient way to achieve a higher level of fitness ... in which not a whole lot of fancy equipment, but an offer with a nice variety, and it shall ensure that the interest can be maintained and the necessary challenge offers to have fun in the exercises. "

Weblink

• The CrossFit website ( English)