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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 21, 2007
What should I eat?
One of the most common questions we get asked is "What should I eat?". The answer is very simple. The problem is the question. Most people really want to ask "Can I keeping eating what I like and still get fit and lose weight?". Let's assume that you really do want to know how to eat heathily. Here are some simple points:

  • Eat lots of vegetables
  • Eat lean meat, fruit, nuts and seeds
  • Avoid sugar
  • Drink lots of water
  • Don't drink a lot of caffeine-based drinks or alcohol
  • If you can't pronounce the ingredients then don't eat it
  • Eat organic and free range foods where available

That's just about everything you need to know to eat correctly. Everything else you may read is based upon these basics. Don't go crazy worrying about calories and proportions and all that stuff if you are still eating junk.
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