Hi athletes,
Great work yesterday! It’s hard to believe we are almost at the end of the CrossFit 101 program. Today’s ACTION ITEM is to read the Crossfit Pyramid and definition of World Class Fitness. These 100 words are what we live by at the gym and paint a path to success. Please view the video and see you soon!
DO NOW: Read the CrossFit Pyramid and “World Class Fitness in 100 Words”
Eat meat and vegetables, nuts and seeds, some fruit, little starch, and NO sugar. Keep intake to levels that will support exercise but not body fat. Practice and train major lifts: Deadlift, Clean, Squat, Presses, C&J, and Snatch. Similarly, master the basics of gymnastics: Pullups, Dips, Rope Climb, Pushups, Situps, Presses to Handstand, Pirouettes, Flips, Splits, and Holds. Bike, run, swim, row, etc. hard and fast. Five or six days a week mix these elements in as many combinations and patterns as creativity will allow. Routine is the enemy. Keep workouts short and intense. Regularly learn and play new sports.
Coach Bryan
Honestly, I was thinking it was going to be like the other CrossFit boxes I had been to before CJP. I thought I wasn’t going to last and that my first class was going to be a try out. I was surprised by how much commitment and effort the coaches put into each of us to make us better, a month try out turned out to be 3 years of continuous work. What started as a couple days a week turned out to be a life time commitment.
I was brought to CrossFit because of the functionality it provides for every challenge life versus just bodybuilding or power lifting. CrossFit forces you to break through mental barriers and past what you thought you physical or mental limit was.
We have something at CJP that I see and appreciate at every CrossFit gym I’ve ever vistied: a community of capable, caring judges and athletes of all shapes and sizes united under one goal of helping each other to get as fit as possible. That was my expectation when I showed up here on Day One (June 2015), and that perception hasn’t changed at all in the four years since.
