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Crossfit: Mentally and Physically Intense

Adam Vickers
Sports Editor

rossfit is a new sport hitting

the world by storm; it has had
a massive impact on the fitness
community and is starting what
some people are calling a cult.
Crossfit is high intensity exercise
involving functional movement.
Crossfit is cross discipline training
that prides itself on being ready
for any situation that arises.
Much like our armed forces, these
athletes train for anything and
everything; they train gymnastics,
weightlifting, swimming and any
type of fitness training you can
imagine.

Crossfit is highly receptive
because the training is helpful
and applicable to any sport or
competition. Crossfit has training
blogs from Crossfit football, which
focus on training for football, to
Crossfit endurance, which focuses
on training for long distance
activities like running and rowing.
Crossfit has even made its way into
professional sports including the
NFL, NHL, and MMA, because it is
becoming the best way to work

on strength and conditioning.

Some of the criticism
from Crossfit is that it
is dangerous, because
many of the lifts

are very complex.
These complex
movements are

very difficult and
very dangerous
without

the right guidance, but one of
the great things about Crossfit

is the community. The Crossfit
community is made up of people
who are serious about getting
bigger, stronger, and faster. The
community is fascinating because
it does not matter how big or
how small you are; they will
work with you to make

sure you reach your

goals. The people who

coach Crossfit all
have certification
on how to coach
the movements
and how to

scale them so
that people

can work

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out their own way of doing the
movements safely.

The way Crossfit works is by
putting a bunch of people ina
room and getting them to workout
face to face, trying to beat one
another in a race for time, weight,
or reps. In the race for time,
you are trying to complete
a workout in the fastest
time possible - to make
it fair, the workouts
are scaled by weight
or in the movement
so that everyone
can try to beat
one another.
Ina race for
weight,

the goal is to get to the heaviest
weight possible in a certain allotted
amount of time; the more weight
you lift, the better you do. For these
types of workout, the goal is usually
to try to beat previous personal
record weights. In a race for reps,
you try to do the most reps in a
specified amount of time. To scale
for these workouts, the weight is
adjusted to the strength of each
person.

One thing that has grown along
with Crossfit is the Crossfit

games. The Crossfit games are
much like the Olympics, but are
instead a competition of fitness.
The goal of the Crossfit games is

to find the fittest man on Earth.
The competition puts athletes
through grueling activities, testing
them in strength, endurance,
determination, and mental
toughness. The competitions they
have gone through include a sprint
triathlon, a half marathon row, 300+
pound clean lifts, and more.

Crossfit is not just intense
exercising; it is a combination
of community, intense training,
and a desire to be a better self.
Crossfit will not only make you
fit, it will make you mentally
strong and prepare you for
any situation. The worst
thing about Crossfit is
that you may feel some
failure - failure builds
character, after all!