Best of luck to CrossFit athlete, Freddy Camacho, today and this weekend at the Reebok CrossFit Games 2012…. U can also watch it on ESPN 3
Best of luck to Eric Abenoja Tomorrow, He will be competing in Mens Physique at the San Jose Fit Expo!
CrossFit athlete, Freddy Camacho will be competing at the Reebok CrossFit 2012 Games later this year. He placed 7th in the Reebook CrossFit games last year. He is one of the newest CrossFit athlete sponsored by KNOXX
Congrats to Rita Benavidez for finishing 24th out of 1200 of the best female athletes in the NorCal Region; Crossfit Regional games.
Rita Benavidez
CrossFit is the principal strength and conditioning program for many police academies and tactical operations teams, military special operations units, champion martial artists, and hundreds of other elite and professional athletes worldwide.
The program delivers a fitness that is, by design, broad, general, and inclusive. Their specialty is not specializing. Combat, survival, many sports, and life reward this kind of fitness and, on average, punish the specialist.
The CrossFit program is designed for universal scalability making it the perfect application for any committed individual regardless of experience. We’ve used our same routines for elderly individuals with heart disease and cage fighters one month out from televised bouts. We scale load and intensity; we don’t change programs.
The needs of Olympic athletes and our grandparents differ by degree not kind. Our terrorist hunters, skiers, mountain bike riders and housewives have found their best fitness from the same regimen.
Thousands of athletes worldwide have followed our workouts posted daily on this site and distinguished themselves in combat, the streets, the ring, stadiums, gyms and homes.
Understanding CrossFit
It program that would best prepare trainees for any physical contingency—prepare them not only for the unknown but for the unknowable as well.
The CrossFit prescription is “constantly varied, high-intensity, functional movement.” No aspect of functional movements is more important than their capacity to move large loads over long distances, and to do so quickly.
The methodology that drives CrossFit is entirely empirical. They believe that meaningful statements about safety, efficacy, and efficiency, the three most important and interdependent facets of any fitness program, can be supported only by measurable, observable, repeatable facts; i.e., data. They call this approach “evidence-based fitness.” The CrossFit methodology depends on full disclosure of methods, results, and criticisms, and we’ve employed the Internet (and various intranets) to support these values. Our charter is open source, making co-developers out of participating coaches, athletes, and trainers through a spontaneous and collaborative online community. CrossFit is empirically driven, clinically tested, and community developed.
In implementation, CrossFit is, quite simply, a sport—the “sport of fitness.” We’ve learned that harnessing the natural camaraderie, competition, and fun of sport or game yields an intensity that cannot be matched by other means.
CrossFit increases work capacity across broad time and modal domains. This is a discovery of great import and has come to motivate our programming and refocus our efforts. This far-reaching increase in work capacity supports our initially stated aims of building a broad, general, and inclusive fitness program.
The modest start of publicly posting our daily workouts on the Internet beginning six years ago has evolved into a community where human performance is measured and publicly recorded against multiple, diverse, and fixed workloads.
CrossFit is a fitness craze sweeping Southern California and the world. The movements are based on functional fitness, meaning fitness that can save your life. Typical activities include weightlifting, sprinting, rowing, jump roping, and box jumping. Typical equipment includes barbells, dumbbells, gymnastic rings, pull-up rigs, kettlebells, and medicine balls, in addition to plenty of bodyweight exercises, like hand-stand push-ups (look them up to believe them).
Though CrossFit can easily be done from home or any gym (just look up a workout on CrossFit.com), it is generally offered in hour-long class structures at Crossfit affiliated gyms. Classes feature a warm-up, a skill or strength building component, and a workout of the day (WOD). These workouts change daily and run approximately twenty minutes. But don’t let twenty minutes fool you, CrossFit demands twenty minutes of high-intensity cardio, power lifting, Olympic lifting, gymnastics, balance, flexibility, and endurance.
In addition to being a training mechanism for military organizations, law enforcement agencies, and fire departments, CrossFit is a certified sport. The “CrossFit Games,” held every summer since 2007, offer top male and female champions $250,000 – $1,000,000 in prize money. Now that’s some incentive to get in shape!
Crossfitters like Jessica Biel and Matt Damon typically follow The Zone or Paleo diets for optimum body sculpting.
The Bar Method has an interesting history as a regimen established by the Nazi-fleeing German Dancer, Lotte Berk. In London, she developed the Lotte Berk Studio where she assisted Brooke Shields, Joan Collins, and Brit Ekland in sculpting their starlet bodies. Over time, the Lotte Berk method was redeveloped into The Bar Method it is today.
The Bar Method combines interval training, isometrics, and dance conditioning for fat burning, muscle carving, body reshaping, arm sculpting, waist trimming, and posture enhancing – all without impact to your delicate joints. While The Bar Method only has locations in California, Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, New Jersey, New York, and Washington, it is easily available on DVD. Celebrities who sing The Bar’s tune include Drew Barrymore, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Anna Paquin, Zooey Deschanel, Ginnifer Goodwin, and Denise Richards.
Insanity: The Asylum is the sequel to P90X’s Insanity workout. Insanity: The Asylum is offered on a series of fitness DVDs and promises body transformations from average to elite in just 30 days. Though you may not end up with instructor and celebrity fitness trainer Shaun T’s ripped body in thirty days, you are sure to see quick results. This cross-training, plyometric, strength, power, and resistance method will show you how to shape your body, using just your body.
The program recommends beginning with the 60-day Insanity program in order to get in shape for Insanity: The Asylum. The program also recommends investing in a series of Beachbody dietary supplements for optimum results. Actress and musician, Demi Lovato recently tweeted, “Just did the Insanity workout DVD… Amazing… So intense but I loved it!!!”
Just because you don’t live in Los Angeles doesn’t mean you can’t have the toned bodies sported by Hollywood studs and starlets. Invest your time in Crossfit, The Bar Method, or Insanity: The Asylum and get ready for quick results. Here’s an incentive: when you can finally squeeze back into that swimsuit, treat yourself to a Cali vacation. You’ll fit right in!
