What is CrossFit
"CrossFit is a strength and conditioning program built on constantly varied, if not randomized, functional movements executed at high intensity."
- Coach Greg Glassman
" CrossFit is my training program. Thanks CrossFit!"
- B.J. Penn,
Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Black Belt World Champion, UFC Competitor
" There is NO better fitness program for fire fighters or law enforcement."
- Mike Bender, 10 time winner of the "Toughest Cop Alive" competition
I've trained everywhere with everyone these guys are the best hands down."
- Eva Twardokens, U.S. Olympic Skier
" I am a U.S. Marine Combatant Dive Course Instructor. I need to be in tear down the walls, crush your enemy and eat his bones shape. A Navy SEAL friend told me about CrossFit. During the first workout I thought my heart was going to explode. I've always had problems balancing the broad needs of a combatant diver. With CrossFit, I have improved my strength, endurance, and power simultaneously!"
- Staff Sergeant Mike Joyce, U.S. Marine Corps
"CrossFit is the greatest training philosophy and methodology that I have ever witnessed first hand. Nothing prepared me better for the nationals and world championships.CrossFit Denver can change your life for the better."
- Allan Talusan
2006 US Heavyweight Full Contact Stick Fighting National Champion
CrossFit Journal
Foundations of CrossFit
CrossFit Journal: "What is Fitness?"
UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Chuck Liddell training CrossFit
CrossFit is the principal strength and conditioning program for many police agencies including the Denver Police Academy, Colorado State Patrol, Parker Fire Department and Jefferson County Swat Team. Military special operations units, champion martial artists, and hundreds of other elite and professional athletes worldwide utilize Crossfit principals on a daily basis as do thousands of people just like you.
Our program delivers fitness that is, by design, broad, general, and inclusive. Our specialty is not specializing. Combat, survival, many sports, and everyday life reward this kind of broad ranging fitness and more times than not punish the "specialist".
The CrossFit program is designed for universal scalability making it the perfect application for any committed individual regardless of experience. We’ve used our same routines for elderly individuals with heart disease and cage fighters one month out from televised bouts. We scale load and intensity; we don’t change programs.
The needs of Olympic athletes and our grandparents differ by degree not kind. Weekend warriors, competitive athletes, terrorist hunters, skiers, mountain bike riders and housewives have discovered their best over fitness ever by following the same CrossFit regimen.
Thousands of athletes worldwide follow our "Work Out Of The Day (WOD)" posted daily at www.crossfit.com, the same athletes who have distinguished themselves in combat, the streets, the ring, stadiums, gyms and homes.
We offer seminars, training and regularly provide consultation services to athletic teams, coaches, police and military agencies throughout the free world.
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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: pull-ups, dips, rope climb, push-ups, sit-ups, presses to handstand, pirouettes, flips, splits, and holds. Bike, run, swim, row, etc, hard and fast. Five or six days per week mix these."