For this weeks CrossFit Journal Book Club we take a look at look at 3 workouts that were considered great all around tests of Fitness 20 years ago. We will look at why this was the claim back then and how that claim has changed at the sports and athletes have evolved over the last 2 decades.
The squat is essential to your well-being. The squat can both greatly improve your athleticism and keep your hips, back, and knees sound and functioning in your senior years. Not only is the squat not detrimental to the knees it is remarkably rehabilitative of cranky, damaged, or delicate knees. In fact, if you do not squat, your knees are not healthy regardless of how free of pain or discomfort you are."
Our purpose here is to show specifically how a simple goal, like rowing a seven-minute two thousand meters, can not only be systematically and deliberately approached from multiple protocols, but can generally encourage similar thinking in pursuing other fitness milestones.
Imagine a world where the only definition of fitness was "the ability to transmit genes and being healthy" That was where the fitness industry was at just 20 years ago. In comes Greg Glassman and CrossFit where not only did we define what Fitness was and how our definition changed the way we looked at Health but that definition would someday birth a revolutionary test that set out to find who the "Fittest on Earth" really were.
The ideal gym would be located close to home or work, well equipped, clean, and manned by knowledgeable helpful staff. Our ideal gym would also not be overly crowded yet available to friends and family that we’d like to workout with. An ideal gym would be supportive of hard-core fitness, a la CrossFit. As long as we’re dreaming it might also play only the music that we want to hear.
CrossFit is a core strength and conditioning program. We have designed our program to elicit as broad an adaptational response as possible. CrossFit is not a specialized fitness program but a deliberate attempt to optimize physical competence in each of ten recognized fitness domains.
The most powerful forces that can be generated by the human body are initiated, controlled, and dominated by the hip. Unfortunately, in the majori...
For this weeks CrossFit Journal Book Club we take a look at look at 3 workouts that were considered great all around tests of Fitness 20 years ago. We will look at why this was the claim back then and how that claim has changed at the sports and athletes have evolved over the last 2 decades.
The squat is essential to your well-being. The squat can both greatly improve your athleticism and keep your hips, back, and knees sound and functioning in your senior years. Not only is the squat not detrimental to the knees it is remarkably rehabilitative of cranky, damaged, or delicate knees. In fact, if you do not squat, your knees are not healthy regardless of how free of pain or discomfort you are."
Our purpose here is to show specifically how a simple goal, like rowing a seven-minute two thousand meters, can not only be systematically and deliberately approached from multiple protocols, but can generally encourage similar thinking in pursuing other fitness milestones.
Imagine a world where the only definition of fitness was "the ability to transmit genes and being healthy" That was where the fitness industry was at just 20 years ago. In comes Greg Glassman and CrossFit where not only did we define what Fitness was and how our definition changed the way we looked at Health but that definition would someday birth a revolutionary test that set out to find who the "Fittest on Earth" really were.
The ideal gym would be located close to home or work, well equipped, clean, and manned by knowledgeable helpful staff. Our ideal gym would also not be overly crowded yet available to friends and family that we’d like to workout with. An ideal gym would be supportive of hard-core fitness, a la CrossFit. As long as we’re dreaming it might also play only the music that we want to hear.
CrossFit is a core strength and conditioning program. We have designed our program to elicit as broad an adaptational response as possible. CrossFit is not a specialized fitness program but a deliberate attempt to optimize physical competence in each of ten recognized fitness domains.
