What Is Crossfit?

CrossFit Hyperformance exists to support a community of athletes. Our athletes vary widely in interests, ages, demographics, and fitness levels, but they have a few common threads: they work hard today so that they will be better tomorrow, they are willing to be coached and humbled, and they support our community with a positive attitude and encouragement. If you are wanting to step up your current fitness leve l and take on a new challenge, then we welcome you to join our Group WODs. If you are just starting, we offer a "ramp up" series of classes to prepare you for our challenging group classes.

What Is Crossfit?

Crossfit is general physical prepardness program intented to increase performance in 10 areas of athletic development:

Strength

Endurance

Flexibility

Stamina

Power

Coordination

Agility

Balance

Speed

Accuracy

Every other fitness program is based on improving the first three. Crossfit picks up where all others falls short.

Our goal is to elicit as broad an adaptational response as possible. The Crossfit program specializes in not specializing, training for the unknown and the unknowable. We have found that this pprogram lends itself equally well to any athletic endeavor. Participants whether they be the general public, rangers, or grandmas can be prepared for any physical challenge they may face. The needs of each individual differ by degree, not kind.

The defining characteristics of Crossfit are constantly varied functional movements put together in a manner that creates as intense a workout out as possible for the individual. When you maximize intensity, you maximize the adaptational response. Every workout is scalable (intensity is adjusted) to match your current fitness level. You don't need to be in the best shape to get started, only have a desire to get there.

These functional movements are natural, total body, core to extremity motions that the body uses on a daily basis. To this end CrossFit combines elements of gymnastics, olympic weightlifting, and endurance intervals to build not just endurance or strength but also awareness of the body, athleticism, and mental fortitute. Weight loss is a nice side effect of what we do, but not our primary concern. If you are a perfect size and can't do a pullup or sprint or have no balance, then you have work to do.

Crossfit.com

About 10 years ago

crossfit.com started as an open source website, an experiment, making the "Workout of the Day" available for free to anyone who wants to try it from where ever they are, home, in another gym, etc. Thousands of people over the globe have taken on the challenge and religiously post their daily results to the crossfit.com website. The website has demos of every exercise, options to scale the workout for every fitness level, and substitutions of exercises if you are short on equipment. We encourage you to familiarize yourself with crossfit.com.

In the last few years or so "affiliates" have been opening up so that followers of the Crossfit program no longer have to workout of their garage gym or local Y but can do the "Workouts of the Day" with a group of fellow Crossfitters and receive unlimited coaching support. Currently there are over 1500 affiliates across the globe.

Crossfit is not for everyone (yet) the same way Harley Davidsons are not for everyone, but our Crossfitters are passionate about the program and the community it brings together and they love the results they see. Our goal for our clients as well as ourselves it to be able to say we are in the best shape of our life.

It's not supposed to be easy.