What is CrossFit?

CrossFit was founded in 2001 and can be used to accomplish any goal, from improved health to better performance. CrossFit is a tried and true formula that works. It’s the formula for everything we do, from forging elite fitness to preventing and reversing chronic disease. It’s the inputs that give us the outcomes, the results that have revolutionized an industry and changed millions of lives for the better.

The components of CrossFit are: 

1. Constantly Varied - CrossFit has some benchmark workouts you'll repeat on occasion but for the most part, every workout is strategically different. This is designed to prepare you for any and all physical tasks life might throw at you - and it also means you'll never be bored. 

2. Functional Movement: Have you ever picked something up off the floor? Sat down in a chair and stood up again? Placed items up on a shelf? If so, you’ve performed deadlifts, squats, and shoulder presses. In CrossFit, we train these types of movements because they are the movements life demands — whether we practice them or not. They are essential to independent living. 

3. High Intensity: No matter what you’re looking for from your workouts — feeling better, looking better, sleeping better, being stronger — intensity is the most effective way to get you there. In CrossFit, we focus first on moving well with consistency, and then we work on increasing intensity. But a workout that’s intense for one person may not be for another. Intensity is relative, which means the goal is to work hard within the limits of your own physical and psychological capacity, because that’s where the results are.