Crossfit Level 1 Cert.
Aim - ANSBroad, general, inclusive fitness. Not only for the unknown, but also the unknowable.
Skills and adaptations that most universally lend themselves to performance advantage.
Specialty is not specializing.
Prescription - ANSConstantly varied, high-intensity, functional movement. Universal motor
recruitment patterns. Multi-joint movements (compound movements). Natural, effective, and
efficient locomotor of body and eal objects. Capacity to move large loans over long distances,
and to do so quickly.
LOAD, SPEED, AND DISTANCE- qualify functional movements for the production of
high-power. Intensity is power and is independent variable most commonly associated with
maximizing rate of return of favorable adaptations to excercise.
Methodology - ANSEmpirical. Safety, efficacy, and efficiency- measurable, observable, and
repeatable data. Evidence-based fitness. Methods, results and criticisms. Empirically driven,
clinically tested, and community developed.
Implementation - ANSsport of fitness. natural camaraderie, competition, and fun of sport or
game yields an intensity that cannot be matched by other means. "The fear of sporting failure is
worse than the fear of death. Men will die for points.
Adaptations - ANSEvidence-based fitness, crossfit increases work capacity across broad time
and modal domains. Publicly posting performance data, co-developing our program in
collaboration with other coaches, and our open-source charter in general has well positioned us
to garner important lessons from our program- to learn precisely and accurately, that is about
the adaptations elicited by CrossFit. Not trade improvements in any other fitness metric for a
decrease in work capacity.
Foundations - ANSPhysical competence in each of 10 fitness domains.
Cardiovascular/respiratory endurance, stamina, strength, flexibility, power, speed, coordination,
agility, balance, and accuracy. Bike, run, swim, and row at short, middle, and long distances.
Olympic weightlifting to develop explosive power, control of external objects, and mastery of
critical motor recruitment patterns. Variety of sports as a vehicle to express and apply their
fitness.
Athlete - ANSgreater bone density, stronger immune systems, less coronary heart disease,
reduced cancer risk, fewer stroked, and less depression.
A person who is trained or skilled in strength, power, balance and agility, flexibility, and
endurance.
Fitness=health=athleticism
, Fringe athletes - ANSCrossFit considers the sumo wrestler, triathlete, marathoner, and power
lifter to be _________ athletes because their fitness demands are so specialized as to be
inconsistent with the adaptations that give maximum competency at all physical challenges.
10 general physical skills - ANSCardiovascular/respiratory endurance, stamina, strength,
flexibility, power, speed, coordination, agility, balance, and accuracy.
Aerobic - ANSwhen the majority of energy needed is derived aerobically. Usually greater than
90 seconds in duration and involve low to moderate power output or intensity. Examples include
running on treadmill for 20 mins, swimming a mile, or watching TV.
Anaerobic - ANSenergy is liberated from substrates in the absence of oxygen. develop a very
high level of aerobic fitness without the muscle wasting consistent with high volume aerobic
exercise. Less than two minutes in duration and involve moderate to high- power output or
intensity.
two anaerobic systems - ANSphosphagen and glycolytic (lactic acid) systems.
Weightlifting - ANSclean and jerk and snatch. squat, deadlift, power clean, and split jerk while
integrating them into a single movement of unequaled value in all of strength and conditioning.
Activate more muscle fibers more rapidly than any other modality of training. results in
explosiveness that is of vital necessity to every sport.
Teaches one to apply force to muscle groups in proper sequence (from the center of the body to
its extremities).
develop strength, muscle, power, speed, coordination, vertical leap, muscular endurance, bone
strength, and the physical capacity to withstand stress. Increase maximum oxygen uptake (the
most important marker for cardiovascular fitness).
Gymnastics - ANSreliance on the body's own weight as the sole source of resistance. improving
strength-to-weight ratio.
Develops pull-ups, squats, lunges, jumping, push-ups, and numerous presses to handstand,
scales and holds. unrivaled in their benefit to the physique as evident in any competitive
gymnast. Improve coordination, balance, agility, accuracy, and flexibility. presses, handstands,
scales, and other floor work, training greatly enhances kinesthetic sense.
Routines - ANSno ideal routine. bonding it for another. training for contingency. CrossFit is a
core strength and conditioning program. CrossFit embraces short, middle and long distance
metabolic conditioning, and low, moderate, and heavy load assignment. Encourage creative and
continuously varied compositions that tax physiological functions against every realistically
conceivable combination of stressors. No routine takes us to athlete total and complete physical
competence.
Neuroendocrine adaptation - ANSchange in the body that affects you either neurologically or
hormonally. Isolation movements invoke essentially none of this response.