Before joining Crossfit London UK, you must be aware of the contents of the Crossfit Foundations Document.
This isnt much of a sales pitch. But we are trainers interested in getting the best out of you, not membership sales people. You will either read the document and flick off to the next site or it will be what you are looking for. A third option: you download the foundations document and spend about 3 months thinking about it, while doing more and more research… before you give it a try.
Its all good. Simple as that.
But for those of you who dont like downloading stuff, here are some ideas from the CrossFit.com website:
“CrossFit is the principal strength and conditioning program for many police academies and tactical operations teams, military special operations units, champion martial artists, and hundreds of other elite and professional athletes worldwide.
Our program delivers a fitness that is, by design, broad, general, and inclusive. Our speciality is not specialising. Combat, survival, many sports, and life reward this kind of fitness and, on average, 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. Our terrorist hunters, skiers, mountain bike riders and housewives have found their best fitness from the same regimen.
Thousands of athletes worldwide have followed our workouts posted daily on this site and distinguished themselves in combat, the streets, the ring, stadiums, gyms and homes.
Crossfit In the USA also publishes the CrossFit Journal, designed to support the CrossFit community detailing the theory, techniques, practiced by our coaches
Rhabdomyolisis
There is a condition that many gyms and sports try to keep quite. It’s called Rhabdomyolisis, a rare condition that can effect you if you work too hard too soon. Have a look at this article, so you can spot the condition in yourself or others.
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I attended the class tonight (18/02/2010). I started the class thinking I was Gene HUNT from “Life on Mars”. Half way through the class, I begged for mercy, but Sally snarled and shouted, “it’s not supposed to be easy”, and made me carry on.
By the end of the class I was sucking my thumb and crying for my mommy!
HOWEVER BRILLIANT CLASS, YOU MUST GIVE IT A GO
Hmm…this looks like a mighty fine workout to me!
bar system check. 1/2 turn on number 1
11pm sunday… the blank spaces are u tube clips… probably still working trough the system
Steve certainly gave us some food for thought! God I’m so funny!
Any tips for getting functioning hamstrings again? Mine don’t seem to be co-operating!
Ahhh. Kitten picture forthcoming no doubt. Can’t wait. (p.s. Am missing CFL on my enforced sabbatical but hope to be back soon with 20 pull-ups). Ben
Time you invested in a cricket ball Trev…..get that under ya and you’ll feel like a new man
Looking forward to having you back soon, Ben!
Clearly our comment spam filter doesn’t screen for puns…
put helens thumbs to work!!
What a look!
Note to self: don’t get on Rosie’s bad side…
Those jump ropes were really rather good.
Where did you get them?
sounds yummy!
I’m in pain after that!
Kieran – they are the excellently named “Ultra Speed Cable Jump Ropes” from http://www.buyjumpropes.net/
That was a total of 20 people put through fight gone bad in 3 hours,
Well done everyone
Andrew and CF London. Thank you so much for letting me sweat at your box the last two days. You guys rock!
I will make sure to visit when I am in town next. If anybody from CF London is ever in the Boston area title=”CFNE”>’s doors are always open!
WOw ! Congrats Warren ! 213 for me
For the record, I scored 210 (up from 199). First time I’ve not totally hated the SDLHP.
I got to score for Warren, and the guy barely slowed:
Rounds: 123/111/107
WB: 84
SDL: 78
BJ: 68
PP: 56
Row: 55
BEAST!!
CrossFit Reading Strength and Power Invitational, in Association with FK.UK
http://www.crossfitreading.co.uk/page34.htm
80kg front squat x5
Good WOD, glad I found a good box here in the UK.
great work Los.
Poor Helen she was doing all the work really!!!
Oh that kicked my butt- 204 score. Something to build on I feel x
7:42 as Rx’d , that left me with a headache and the desire to hug a bucket!
At Crossfit Bristol;
8:12 with 26K Thrusters, Green band Pull up
x
Anyone coming to the Hell Bells on thursday is in for a treat! Whoop
The thrusters felt like hell!!!
Great article. Cheers
i think thats the worst photo of me i have ever seen! And i have seen some bad ones!
class was great though. I am aching all over and will be back for some more tonight!
i came, i saw, i was totally conquered! great class on thursday, knew i should have picked up the kb’s sooner.
Looked like a little bit of a kip on the multiples there Andrew……
at my age, are you surprised!
bar system check turns on 14, 13, 6
Get your self a bargin at the UK & Ireland sectional for the Crossfit Games on 20th March. BeaverFit will be selling their GHD’s at a special games price £400 only…..
I’ve got a question about the muscle-up progressions.
Is there an ideal number of reps to do? And should we be splitting them into sets with a defined rest period?
I get the feeling after the progressions that maybe I only did half as many reps as I could have. OTOH, I’ve definitely overtrained my upper arms twice in the past. So, is there a goal?
vary it. see some as 5 x 5 vsessions, others as max attempts, 1.1.1.1.1., but focus on getting the right position
This is the stuff of legend – I need it in my life!
Trevor looks like he’s driving a truck!
me and my action photography
the schedule for the day
http://www.funckey.co.uk/news/sectional/crossfit-games-schedule-for-the-day/