Improving your health through CrossFit is a long term commitment. Like all forms of fitness, CrossFit takes consistency and practice to get it right. A great coach can go a long way to helping you make the right decisions early on. But with the adrenaline flowing and loud music pumping, even the best intentioned CrossFit athlete can make the mistake of prioritizing intensity over proper mechanics and rigorous consistency.
Scaling is a training principle of CrossFit where we preserve the intended stimulus of the workout, but we modify the load, reps, or technical requirements of the exercise to make it better for you. Scaling is also called adjusting or modifying a workout. To successfully provide a workout that is accessible to beginners and advanced athletes, we consider the scalability of the workout from the outset of its design. Here is the same workout in three different levels.
In a word — YES. We recommend taking at least one personal training, one mobility class, and one CrossFit class per week. Personal Training to teach you the foundations, mobility to improve your flexibility and control, CrossFit to improve your conditioning.
CrossFit Sand & Steel will be hosting the 2021 CrossFit Open. We think the open will feature one of the new girls, so download our free infographic on the Seven New CrossFit Girls so you can practice them.
Help us honor and support Airforce Major David Gray “DG” by attending the CrossFit HERO WOD on November 27 and December 4. Military and Police WOD Free.
So many people crushed this #workout. From our home-based participants like @btberkley and @gracelface, to our newest members like Damaris and @keilita_medina owning the box jumps. Ally building the #mobility for the overhead squat. So many people to recognize on this post.
Northern Virginia has set forth social distancing laws requiring members to be spaced 10 feet apart. Here’s how we keep you safe in CrossFit Classes.