About CrossFit

CrossFit is the principal strength and conditioning program for many police academies and tactical operations teams, military special operations units, champion martial artists, and hundreds of other elite and professional athletes worldwide.

Our program delivers a fitness that is, by design, broad, general, and inclusive. Our specialty is not specializing. Combat, survival, many sports, and life reward this kind of fitness and, on average, punish the specialist.

The CrossFit program is designed for universal scalability making it the perfect application for any committed individual regardless of experience. We’ve used our same routines for elderly individuals with heart disease and cage fighters one month out from televised bouts. We scale load and intensity; we don’t change programs.

At CrossFit, we work exclusively with compound movements and shorter, high-intensity cardiovascular sessions. Instead of lateral raises, we do push-presses. Instead of curls, we do pull-ups. No leg extensions, we do squats. Why do we do this? Because compound or functional movements and high intensity or anaerobic cardio is radically more effective at eliciting nearly any desired fitness result.

You will see me reference several acronyms for workouts or movements within a CrossFit workout.  For example, here are a few of the most popular:

“WOD” means Workout Of the Day
“OHS” means OverHead Squat
“SDHP” means Sumo Deadlift High Pull

That is not an exclusive list by any means.  A full list can be found here.

CrossFit description and logo taken from the CrossFit main page and also CrossFit-Springfield, my home gym.  Please visit the training blogs of two of our finest trainers, Jeremy Mhire and Brian Llewellyn.