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THE FIRST CROSSFIT
STANDARD OF FITNESS

There are ten recognised general physical skills. They are cardiovascular/respiratory endurance, stamina, strength, speed, flexibility, power, coordination, agility, balance, and accuracy.

You are as fit as you are competent in each of these ten skills. A regimen develops fitness to the extent that it improves each of these ten skills.
Importantly, improvements in endurance, stamina, strength, and flexibility come about through training.

THE SECOND CROSSFIT
STANDARD OF FITNESS

The essence of this model is the view that fitness is about performing well at any and every task imaginable. This model suggests that your fitness can be measured by your capacity to perform well at these tasks in relation to other individuals.

The implication here is that fitness requires an ability to perform well at all tasks, even unfamiliar tasks, tasks combined in infinitely varying combinations. In practice this encourages the athlete to disinvest in any set notions of sets, rest periods, reps, exercises, order of exercises, routines, periodization, etc.

THE THIRD CROSSFIT
STANDARD OF FITNESS

There are three metabolic pathways that provide the energy for all human action.

Total fitness, the fitness that CrossFit promotes and develops, requires competency and training in each of these three pathways or engines.

Balancing the effects of these three pathways largely determines the how and why of the metabolic conditioning or “cardio” that we do at CrossFit.

Favoring one or two to the exclusion of the others and not recognising the impact of excessive training in the oxidative pathway are arguably the two most common faults in fitness training.

 

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Wednesday, March 07, 2007
Too old?
Is there such a thing as too old? Some would say you're never too old. Others think they are old when they reach 30. We don't think that you are ever too old to make an effort regarding your own health and fitness. We have clients ranging from 20 years of age to 64 years of age. We dare you to tell any of them that they are too old.

Some people thought that Randy Couture was too old when he recently made his UFC comeback at age 43. In his comeback fight he defeated the reigning heavyweight champion Tim Sylvia (13 years his junior, with a 30cm reach advantage and over 20kg more weight). We dare you to tell Randy that he's too old.

So, is your age just another excuse for you to do nothing? If so, it's a poor excuse.

The latter years of our lives need not be time for us to simply fade out. We don't have to succumb to a frail existance simply because the years are adding up.

If you are getting older, now is the time to make a few changes if your life. Get up, move around, try something new, think about what you eat and drink. Do more for yourself.

In the end, it's up to you. If you so desire, you can take proactive steps that will make your life much more enjoyable as you grow older. (And you young ones should be starting now.)

It's never to early and it's never too late.
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