CrossFit is a core strength and conditioning program created in 1995 by Greg Glassman, a life-long physical fitness trainer and gymnast from Santa Cruz, CA. The stated goal of the CrossFit program is to develop a broad, general and inclusive fitness, the type of fitness that would best prepare trainees for any physical contingency. To achieve the aim of general, broad and inclusive fitness, the CrossFit program has athletes perform constantly varied, high intensity, functional movements.
These movements generally fall into the three modalities of gymnastics, Olympic weightlifting, and metabolic conditioning or “cardio.” In a typical CrossFit workout athletes conduct a warm-up, a skill or strength development segment and then a “Workout of the Day” or WOD. The WOD by design varies from day to day, but typically includes a mixture of functional exercises conducted at high intensity from anywhere between 5 and 20 minutes.
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If your goal is optimum physical competence then
all the general physical skills must be considered:
1. Cardiovascular/respiratory endurance – The
ability of body systems to gather, process,
and deliver oxygen.
2. Stamina – The ability of body systems to
process, deliver, store, and utilize energy.
3. Strength – The ability of a muscular unit,
or combination of muscular units, to apply
force.
4. Flexibility – the ability to maximize the range
of motion at a given joint.
5. Power – The ability of a muscular unit, or
combination of muscular units, to apply
maximum force in minimum time.
6. Speed – The ability to minimize the time
cycle of a repeated movement.
7. Coordination – The ability to combine
several distinct movement patterns into a
singular distinct movement.
8. Agility – The ability to minimize transition
time from one movement pattern to
another.
9. Balance – The ability to control the
placement of the bodies center of gravity in
relation to its support base.
10. Accuracy – The ability to control movement
in a given direction or at a given intensity
