Welcome

Welcome, welcome, to the 74th annual Hunger Games.

Not quite, but close. This blog is about CrossFit, which may or may not be the ultimate training program for any athlete, depending on who you talk to.

The best definition I found for explaining the purpose of CrossFit was on their official site:

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.

Our program delivers a fitness that is, by design, broad, general, and inclusive. Our specialty is not specializing. Combat, survival, many sports, and life reward this kind of fitness and, on average, punish the specialist.

CrossFit contends that a person is as fit as they are proficient in each of ten general physical skills: cardiovascular/respiratory endurance, stamina, strength, flexibility, power, speed, agility, balance, coordination, and accuracy

As a purchaser of the CrossFit ideology, I wanted to start this blog as an introduction and explanation of all things CrossFit, such as their special language and the correct forms for the variety of moves preformed.

This blog is also to start an open dialogue about what CrossFit is and is not. Because despite what some people say about CrossFit being the end-all be-all, no training program is perfect. The process for finding a training program for you is about searching for one most suited to your goals.

Hopefully after leaving here you will understand a little more about what has been called a community, a cult, and a cultural phenomenon: and that is the world of CrossFit.