Training
“Anytime you find yourself saying, ‘Damn it, I
can’t do that,’ you have a hole in your fitness.”
The magic is in the movements.
All of CrossFit’s workouts are
based on functional movements.
These are the core movements
of life, found everywhere, and
built naturally into our DNA.
“NO ONE ELSE IS TESTING FITNESS,
AND AT THIS POINT, NO ONE CAN
MAKE A CLAIM”
I
came across with crossfit almost 2 years ago. You know
what they told me? Any kind
of grap you can imagine, that
crossfit created by chiropractors
to continue the business flow and
earn more money. I was short
minded at that point so I took it.
After 15 months I finally decided
to leave the weight room and start
doing crossfit and enter various
crossfit games across the gloe. My
first was in my home town Cyprus,
December 2015 I place 17/30.
Great experience and got my weak
points checked so i can improved
for the Crossfit Opens 2016.
Anyohow, I got bored seeing the
same machines every day so I
quit the normal gym and I start
crossfit. I fall in love since then.
Amazing and intense workouts, the environment is different, you can take your shirt off
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HOW FIT ARE YOU?
without having haters wying at you
plus you can drop the weight. Friendly and motivaitonal atmosphere.
Dont’ get fooled by society opinion and thats was my mistake. Ofcourse
you will hear people saying ‘I got hurt, i
have pain here and there’ and that should
not discourge you. There is a different bettween pain and injury. If you got
injured and you quit, thats your fault
you lack mobility and stretching and
you should educate yourself and stay
in the game with proper rehabilation.
Not every workout will play to your
strength. I create my own workouts and
my are no different. What separates the
men from the boys and the women from
the girls is the drive you have to finish.
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CROSSFIT THEORY
CrossFit is an evidence-based
fitness program. Meaningful
statements about safety, efficacy
and efficiency — the three most
important and interdependent
facets of any fitness program. It
offer the world’s most useful definition of fitness: increased work
capacity across broad time and
modal domains. Capacity is the
ability to do real work, which is
measurable using the basic terms
of physics (force, distance and
time). Life is unpredictable so
real world fitness must be broad
and not specialized, both in terms
of duration and type of effort.
HOW CROSSFIT TESTS EVERYTHING?
CrossFit begins with a belief in
fitness. The aim of CrossFit is to
forge a broad, general and inclusive fitness. Trainers have sought
to build a program that will best
prepare trainees for any physical
contingency — not only for the
unknown, but for the unknowable. CrossFit gyms use equipment from multiple disciplines,
including barbells, dumbbells,
gymnastics rings, pull-up bars,
jump ropes, kettlebells, medicine balls, plyo boxes, resistance
bands, rowers, foam rollers and
various mats. CrossFit is focused
on “constantly varied, high-intensity, functional movement,”
drawing on categories and exercises such as: calisthenics,
Olympic-style
weightlifting,
powerlifting,
Strongman-type
events, plyometrics, body weight
exercises, indoor rowing, aerobic exercise, running, and
swimming. You don’t have to
be a CrossFitter to apply some
of their strategies for mental
toughness to your own workout.
TIPS TO CONQUER YOUR
WORKOUTS
If you ever look Crossfit
games
on
you
tube you will notice those incredible
physiques cheering in the audience and
competing in the arena. They have to be
strong, powerful and able to work for
long period of times. And seriously i like
how they look bigger and learner and
once more high intensity training along
with strength proof its effectiveness.
So in order to survive the workouts,
I had to come up with mental strategies in order to cope with the workload and finish the workouts. If not, the
weights will cr