Carrying injured hikers down steep trails. Wrestling drunks. Raiding pot farms. Fighting forest fires. Counseling suicidal teens out of deadly whitewater. Heli-rappelling down the sheer face of El Capitan. It’s all in a day’s work for a super-fit national park ranger.
If you are new to CrossFit or need a quick "refresher" from last year 2009 CrossFit Games, here is a great article on Miko Salo and Tanya Wagner. These are two incredible athletes who can teach us all about determination, intensity and what it means to work hard. Also, get caught up on some other athletes you should keep your radars on for.
I read an interesting quote today that really stuck in my mind. “The universe doesn’t reward or punish you for the decisions you make, it just adjusts. There is no right way or wrong way, just new ways.”
5/5/3/3/3/1/1/1/1
*warm up with repetitions of 5, when rep 4 and 5 get difficult your workout has begun
Just what is a "core strength and conditioning" program?
CrossFit is a core strength and conditioning program in two distinct senses. First, we are a core strength and conditioning program in the sense that the fitness we develop is foundational to all other athletic needs. This is the same sense in which the university courses required of a particular major are called the "core curriculum". This is the stuff that everyone needs. Second, we are a "core" strength and conditioning program in the literal sense meaning the center of something. Much of our work focuses on the major functional axis of the human body, the extension and flexion, of the hips and extension, flexion, and rotation of the torso or trunk. The primacy of core strength and conditioning in this sense is supported by the simple observation that powerful hip extension alone is necessary and nearly sufficient for elite athletic performance. That is, our experience has been that no one without the capacity for powerful hip extension enjoys great athletic prowess and nearly everyone we've met with that capacity was a great athlete. Running, jumping, punching and throwing all originate at the core. At CrossFit we endeavor to develop our athletes from the inside out, from core to extremity, which is by the way how good functional movements recruit muscle, from the core to the extremities.
Watch Day 2 of the Hawaii Sectionals
This is by far the hardest sectionals we have seen yet this year. So any of the athlete you see in this video are pure warriors!
The Fish Go CrossFit by Paul Fournier Florida Marlins strength and conditioning coach Paul Fournier brings CrossFit to Major League Baseball players.
Sweat Storm By Eric Velazquez A growing fitness sensation, CrossFit—the system that takes functional training to the extreme—isn't for the weak. Follow along as an MF staffer plunges into the fray
