Crossfit For All

The CrossFit motto is, “Nature abhors a specialist.” What this means is that training for a single sport or exclusively embracing one mode of exercise—be it running, cycling, or old school bodybuilding—can never unlock the full potential of the human body. “Well, I just need to lose some weight,” you might say. OK, that’s fair, but you need to remember that our bodies are adaptation machines and tend to acclimate very quickly to whatever changes you throw at them. The plateau you hit when you’re going to the gym every day and the scale still won’t move? That’s not your genetics or slow metabolism conspiring against you. Rather, it is just your body getting used to the stimulus and adjusting accordingly.

The trick, then, is to keep your body guessing and throw something new at it every day. Enter CrossFit, a mode of training for overall athleticism and fitness that incorporates weightlifting, aerobics, some gymnastics moves, and plenty of other stuff that’s not coming to mind right now. CrossFit releases a new WOD or Workout of the Day every day, with exercises stacked in circuits that are usually done for a set number of rounds or specific length of time.

If you’ve never heard of this and your interest is now piqued, then have a look below at my trainer Steve Wrona’s specially designed WOD and click the video to see him explain it all.