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Crossfit: A Sport of Fitness

  By Trina Remedios  posted Mar 15th 2012 at 8:00AM IN | Avg Rating
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Crossfit: A Sport of Fitness

How has it been scaled for different age groups?

Each person has different athletic abilities, which a crossfit trainer takes into account to scale the exercise to give you a good workout. It is scaled for the relative intensity of the general public. If you’re injured, the workouts are scaled at different levels. However, the exercises are never changed; only the degrees of intensity vary. 

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  • What is CrossFit? Denise Thomas breaks it down for you, “Crossfit is functional movement, constantly varied executed at high intensity. Functional movements is what we do everyday like sitting down and getting back up, that is called a squat; or if
  • She further explains, “Constantly varied – Crossfitters are greedy, we want to be good at every thing, so we don’t want only a strong guy, fast guy or flexible girl, we want everything. We have varied the program so we can be good at everything. Int
  • Why is it a sport? Crossfit is about team work and cheering each other, it’s not a solo work out. At a Crossfit gym, the group is divided into two groups. Crossfit is a game; it is an online open workout that spans five weeks. Every week you do your wo
  • How is it beneficial to health? Other workout regimes are valued no doubt, but Crossfit covers so many different areas, if you want fitness Crossfit is the way to go, if you want to be stronger, faster, lose a lot of weight Crossfit will do that for y
  • How has it been scaled for different age groups? Each person has different athletic abilities, we scale the exercise according to their ability and you will still get a good work out. It has been scaled for the relative intensity for the general public.
  • What should beginners keep in mind? Just go to the gym, the trainer will give them workout exercises best suited for them. I recommend do it two or three times a week, listen to your body, as you grow with Crossfit you will know what your body can take.
  • How many hours a day? Work out of the day is more than enough. If you follow your regime religiously and believe in the program you will do wonderfully. What about the kids? Kids have a different course, but they too make the most out of Cr
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