...Abstract In this paper, I will explain what CrossFit Training is and what the benefits are compared to a typical exercise program of isolated muscular training combined with a cardio workout. I will also examine the impacts that CrossFit Training has had on college athletes and athletic teams as a whole at the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford (UPB). I will look into what teams have the most athletes with experience with CrossFit training, how many UPB athletes have used it on their own time or during the offseason, and the general feeling towards CrossFit Training and its effectiveness in improving fitness. Introduction In the physical fitness realm, there are many different kinds of exercise programs. There are programs that focus on dancing, ones that focus on stretching, and ones that focus on core strength and conditioning. CrossFit Training is an example of a core strength and conditioning program. It was developed to enhance an individual’s overall ability to complete physical tasks by incorporating many different forms of exercise, from gymnastics to weightlifting (Glassman, 2002). CrossFit Training is different from the popularly accepted idea of a workout because it’s not just situps, curls, leg press, and a half an hour of cardio. CrossFit is all about combining movements and shorter, high intensity cardiovascular sessions (Glassman, 2002). For every long distance effort, a CrossFit athlete will do five or six at a short distance. This is implemented...
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...CrossFit was created and developed by Greg Glassman, a gymnast who wanted to improve his gymnastic skills and increase his strength more than just completing body weight workouts. He began incorporating weights in his workouts and noticed he began to surpass his competition. Using weights into his gymnastic workouts and integrating aerobic exercises like running and cycling Glassman developed the idea of a CrossFit training program. According to international athlete and Olympic coach Ross Edgley, “[CrossFit] was intended to improve 10 physical qualities… cardiovascular/respiratory endurance, stamina, strength, flexibility, power, speed, agility, coordination, balance, and accuracy” (Edgley, “CrossFit: Sports Science”). Essentially, CrossFit...
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...started doing CrossFit. I wanted to lose some weight and get in shape, but at that time I never knew how CrossFit would become so important to me, and how it has become part of my life. Before I joined a CrossFit box - how CrossFit gyms are called - I played basketball in my school. I wanted to do physical training, so I would be more competent and athletic for the basketball season.A friend of mine and I, who also wanted to try Crossfit, went to the nearest box we could find and did the trial class. I felt horrible and amazing at the same time. Horrible because I felt exhausted after doing the workout, but amazing because the sensation I felt after doing giving everything I could be something unique that I never felt before. After that day I knew I could get really good at the sport so I signed up at that box and started training approx three to four times a day. Crossfit is the sport of fitness, which involves three main areas: Olympic weightlifting,...
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...VALLEY CROSSFIT Chris Chapple Business Plan MG 530 4/30/2012 Table of Contents: 1. Executive Summary a. Mission Statement b. Company Information c. Service d. Financial Information e. Future Plans 2. Description of the Business f. Nature of the Business g. Target Market h. How Product/Services Meet Needs 3. Competitive Analysis i. CrossFit Gyms j. Other Gyms 4. Industry Description and Outlook 5. Marketing Plan k. Market Penetration Strategy l. Growth Strategy m. Communication Strategy 6. Financial Plan n. Start-Up Costs o. Continual Costs p. Revenue 7. Critical Risk Factors Executive Summary Mission Statement: Valley CrossFit is the elite health and performance facility located in Shelton, CT. Valley CrossFit provides clients with a comprehensive health and fitness program tailored to their needs. Our coaches have experience in training athletes, weekend warriors, and people just looking to get in shape and have a good time. We have developed a health and fitness program that is second to none. Valley CrossFit’s coaches are experts in the fields of sport conditioning, injury prevention, nutrition, and fitness. Our focus is to offer each member that trains in our facility a life-changing experience as they work towards elite health and fitness. The greatest key to your success is you. Achieving elite levels of fitness is a process that takes time, determination...
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...Mahoney 1 Billie-Marie Mahoney Professor Charles Daniel English 111 October 18, 2012 Explaining a Concept: The Controversy with Crossfit Crossfit has become one of the most popular forms of fitness and exercise that has ever been part of this earth. For most people who have joined, it has also become a way of life. It is the main strength and conditioning program for many police academies and FBI, State Police, military special operations units, martial artists, and hundreds of other elite and professional athletes all across the world. Crossfit has been developed to assist athletes in achieving a high level of fitness in endurance, strength, flexibility, speed, agility, power, coordination, and accuracy. Therefore; one may ask why it has become so controversial. Greg Glassman developed Crossfit, Inc. in 2000 and since then, the hype about Crossfit has exploded. In 2010, Reebok signed a 10 year deal with Crossfit to come together and try to reinvent the way people around the world achieve fitness. Crossfit, Inc. licenses’ their name “Crossfit” to affiliates around the world for a yearly fee and also puts each trainer through a series of trainings and certifications to certify each owner and trainer. There is a two day training course for beginners and specialty seminars which include gymnastics, Olympic lifting, running, mobility, programs for pregnant woman, kids, and military forces. Once licensed, the affiliate then develops their own...
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...Samantha Hicks Week 6 Writing Assignment November 30, 2013 2- In the final part of this case study, Roger Williams was making plans to create a business continuity plan for its information. Why do you think the hospital had not already developed such a plan in the event of a disaster? How is HP’s new IT infrastructure going to help Roger Williams build a robust business continuity plan? The hospital had not already developed a continuity plan for its information in the event of a disaster because Roger Williams Medical Center did not know that it would gain the large amount of information it did. HP’s new IT infrastructure will help Roger Williams build a robust business continuity plan because the new IT infrastructure will help the hospital achieve scalability, availability, and the performance required to process and store information with its new applications. By achieving scalability, Roger Williams will be able to add information as well as change information within a system easily. By achieving availability, the hospital will be able to have the information available when needed. By achieving the performance required to process and store information with its new applications, the hospital will be able to have enough processing power to work with the new applications and store large quantities of data. 3- According to the network infrastructures we discussed in this chapter, how would you characterize Roger Williams’ new IT infrastructure? Justify your answer...
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...Many schools have moved to WOD- based PE rather than the traditional sports- based PE. This is because WOD- based PE builds a community of trainers within the class that all help each other to become better. Schools have found that WOD- based physical education is better on the brain and improves grades. The expectations are high because “...kids will step up to the challenge” (Tis Nobler in the Mind ---and Body). Crossfit creates an environment where students do not judge each other and are all doing the workout to their best abilities. I also noticed that coaching each other was a very important aspect of sustaining the positive environment in the class. I have learned so much this year in PE because of the crossfit part of it. Another reason...
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...People call me crazy, but I call myself a determined, hard working crossfitter. Crossfit has taken up a vast majority of my life and I could say that it has changed who I am as a person and I wouldn’t have it any other way. Everyday i’m in that same gym day after day working my butt off to try and better myself. Most people who partake in crossfit, could easily agree that crossfit slowly becomes an addiction of your own...a very good one of course, once you start you can’t ever stop. Community; multiple people of the same interests’ come together as supporters for one another. Three years ago when I first became a member of “Portcrossfit”, everything had changed. When someone just starts out with crossfit, it almost feels impossible to complete a workout. Just when you think you can't finish and giving up is your only option, every single one of your teammates are surrounding you, screaming, clapping and pushing you to finish and suddenly, the pain just goes away and you feel invincible. The relationships built with everyone at...
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...Are CrossFit is the fastest growing community of fitness services businesses of all time. Starting with 13 affiliates in 2005, they now have approximately 12,000 affiliates in 2015. In Calgary there is 15 CrossFit gyms. Calgary population is about 1.2 million people and growing. South Calgary is the fastest growing part of the city. With the new South Health Campus Hospital build and new South East Town Center in developmet thats a place to be. Seton, the new South East Town Center in Calgary. There is only two CrossFit gyms in South Calgary, that can only handle 150-300 members per gym. Which makes a good opportunity to open new CrossFit gym in Seton. Why? - easy access from Deerfoot trail - high population in surrounding neighborhoods - surrounding neighborhoods still growing - Seton is still under development and still growing - relatively young demographics (this people are active and always looking for a ways to be fit) - South Health Campus Hospital located in Seton and has over 2500 employees working there CrossFit Seton is a CrossFit training facility based in Seton, Calgary, AB. Purpose of this gym is to bringCrossFit methodology to more people in Calgary. CrossFit wasdeveloped to enhance an individual’s ability to perform any task.Whatever this task is in your daily life: moving around the house,going playing with kids, hiking, running, work specific labor andtasks. CrossFit helps improving functional independence and improvingfitness. CrossFit brings...
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...fictional business idea is a Crossfit gym that provides a tremendous workout to people of all ages while focusing on younger kids and older adults. Crossfit is a fitness company founded in 2000 and is much different from most gyms. According to Thurmond (2009), “The prescription for CrossFit calls for three things: constant variation, high intensity and functional movement. By switching up your regular fitness routine, you keep your body constantly guessing the next move. In short, it's the cure for the common workout”. A Crossfit gym involves a great deal of cardio workouts and weight lifting, in a very competitive, yet friendly, atmosphere. Crossfit workouts can be extremely intense, but each workout can bea altered to fit the needs of each person. Whether it is starting at a low weight load, or using bands to be able to do certain workouts, Crossfit can be well-suited for any individual and does not discriminate against gender, age, or skin color. The gym will be known as Crossfit for All and will focus on bringing families closer through Crossfit. Crossfit allows people to be the best they can be in terms of fitness. Different from a regular Crossfit gym, our audience is adults who are very young or older and have a not been introduced to an active lifestyle or have a hard time being active. The membership fee for a standard gym is around $30 a month. At most Crossfit gyms, the membership starts at about $100 a month and sky rockets from there. At Crossfit for All, we offer monthly...
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...person in the 21st century the time where you can take two hours at the gym is just no-existent. People want a fast and effective way to reach their fitness goals in a time frame that shows quick results. The more people have to do for themselves the less likely they will stick with it. Not everyone can afford personal training, but want that kind of attention to push them through the days they do not want to work out. In 2000 Greg Glassman took all of the data he possessed and developed a new revolutionary workout routine that was fast and effective (Crossfit, 2000). In a small garage in Southern California is where Crossfit was created. Crossfit is categorized as a high-intensity interval training that implements several different workout techniques used to maximize your efficiency in all aspects of fitness. Crossfit directly affects all aspects of a person’s life in the concepts that you work hard you will see results. Crossfit is a quick based workout that is always lead by a certified trainer who tracks all the...
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...DMBA 610 Knowledge Integration Exam Fall 2015 ________________________________________Please read all instructions carefully before you begin. 1) Use the provided Student Exam Answer Sheet. Include your responses to all questions in the column, “Your Response” next to the appropriate question. This ONE Exam Answer Sheet document should be saved with your last name and "final," -- e.g. "Smithfinal"-- and posted in your Assignment Folder no later than 11:59 PM (EST), Sunday, November 15th, 2015. This exam also must be submitted to Turnitin.com It is recommended that you submit your exam to Turnitin.com at least 24 hours before the deadline to allow you sufficient time to address any issues identified in the Originality Report prior to posting your exam in your Assignment Folder. Please note: The exam questions are already included on the Answer Sheet. If the exam content is recognized as non-original by Turnitin, it will be ignored in analyzing your Turnitin report. Do not include any repeat of the exam case content on your Answer Sheet. Only place your answers and references on the Answer Sheet. 2) No extensions may be granted on this assignment; be sure to submit it on time and check to make sure that the document you submitted is readable and what you intended to submit. NOTE: This is an individual assignment. Any discussion or collaboration regarding the assignment constitutes a violation of UMUC's Academic Dishonesty and Plagiarism Policy. If you have any...
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...see these tools as the ultimate in dryland training and performance enhancement. In fact, this is such a crucial topic to strength and conditioning for swimmers that I’ve made an entire article dedicated to the swim bench that you can read here. Do this instead: Load-bearing exercise 1. High Repetition Box Jumps As the prevalence of distance running is starting to fade, new trends in strength and conditioning are emerging. One such trend is the rise of high repetition box jumps, this is almost completely due to the similar rise in frequency of athletes competing in, or training with CrossFit. On its own, CrossFit is great, it is a sport with large amounts of comradery, variation, and competition. CrossFit, just like my sport of powerlifting, or the sport of bodybuilding, is not a good training tool for athletes in other sports. The box jumps fit into the mix as a common exercise in the CrossFit WODs (Workout of the Day) and have since become common among athletes looking to gain power and speed. Box jumps are indeed a great tool for building these aforementioned qualities, but large amounts of them in quick succession is not the best means for achieving this. High repetition box jumps can, and frequently do, cause a multitude of injuries. As a set of these box jumps drags on, the quality of each subsequent jump is likely to decline leading to a very big room for error. In addition to the technique breakdown between each rep, immediately jumping down from the box to jump back...
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...These functional movements are based from gymnastics, weightlifting, rowing, running, bike, swim, and more. These type of workouts are created to maximize the output work in a short period of time, so the athlete is performing a high-intensity workout that boosts strength and endurance. The effectiveness of this sport is by creating athletes with cardiovascular endurance that have endurance during a very heavy and difficult workout. The sport since its beginning has increased tremendously in worldwide popularity. The CrossFit Games is a competition held every year since 2007 that brings the best of the best CrossFit athlete competing against each other for the title “Fittest on Earth”. Crossfit is also available for any fitness level such as kids, teenage and masters. Each workout is plan by a trainer, to become certified CrossFit requires a level 1 certification course. The upcoming instructor will learn how to conduct a class, hold standards of effective technique, create high levels of intensity in the workout and be able to scale the workout for all fitness...
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...The CrossFit Level 1 Training Guide is a collection of CrossFit Journal articles written since 2002 primarily by CrossFit CEO and founder Coach Greg Glassman (“Coach Glassman”) on the foundational movements and methodology of CrossFit. The Level 1 Certificate Course is CrossFit’s cornerstone seminar, which has allowed thousands to begin their careers as CrossFit Trainers. This Guide is designed to be used in conjunction with the Level 1 Course to develop the participant’s knowledge and trainer skills, as well as prepare him or her for the Level 1 test. This is an essential but not an exhaustive resource. Some of the knowledge required to pass the test comes from these articles; the other material comes directly from the two-day course. Some edits to the original articles have been made for the Training Guide to flow as a stand-alone reference, provide context for readers, as well stay current with the course format. All original works are preserved in the CrossFit Journal and hotlinks (noted by their blue color) are provided throughout. Copyright © CrossFit, Inc. All Rights Reserved. CrossFit is a registered trademark ‰ of CrossFit, Inc. V2.2-20150514R4.KW V2.3_ 20150525.KW Table of Contents Methodology. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Medicine-Ball Cleans. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 Understanding CrossFit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....
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