Pathways To Fitness

Crossfit can be intimidating to some folks if all they know about it is what they see on the Crossfit Games (The Crossfit Games are the Crossfit World Championships I guess you could say). Look at the Crossfit Games like you would compare Major League Baseball to a Co-ed Softball league. One is NOT like the other and shouldn't be approached in the same way.  For 99.9% of us who don't compete on the elite level, Crossfit is meant to be a fitness methodology that incorporates various functional movements (movement that mimics things you do in everyday living i.e. sitting down, standing up, picking something up off the ground, lifting something up overhead onto a shelf, etc...) in varying rep schemes and intensities, with the goal of attaining an individuals peak fitness by keeping the body constantly guessing at what's coming next.  In this episode David and Jon talk about what new-comers to Crossfit could expect of their first experience, what they should look for in a gym (also referred to in the Crossfit wor