Joining a CrossFit gym is not for the faint at heart (although it should be because they won’t stay that way for long) it for people who seriously want to become healthy and reach their optimum physical condition. Once you reach the stage when you understand that you have to do something to regain the energy you had during your youth, you are ready for CrossFit and finding these benefits for yourself.
Most people spend their first few sessions at CrossFit learning stretches and basic techniques. Although this is an easy stage you will sweat like you never have before and you will spend most of your time trying to catch your breath.
All the instructors and longtime CrossFiters will look like superheroes, they will be much lighter than you, but have at least twice your strength. The idea is not to look like MR or Miss Universe with huge muscles, mostly CrossFit athletes look just like other athletes, but they are really strong.
Things like WOD which means Workout of the Day. Every day there is a combination of exercises that everyone does that day. Usually, this WOD consists of one gymnastic move, one cardio move and one power lifting maneuver
RX is the term when you finish everything in the specified time.
Box is the CrossFit center, it’s not called a Gym but a BOX.
People will think you have finally lost the plot and try and advise you just how dangerous Cross..something or other is. It is nothing like a commercial fitness club or gym.
CrossFit is about doing reps you do 20 of this then 10 of something else, followed by 30 of this, then a run for so many meters. You will learn quickly how to count backward and figure out how many reps are left until your break.
This is nothing like you have ever experienced before, it will give you a whole new respect and appreciation of what strong is.
You will have lots of energy even after a hard workout.
You will learn just what mind over matter means.
CrossFit will help you develop your mental abilities and just how tough you can be.
Learning and joining a CrossFit gym is one of the best things a person can do for their own development. It is on a personal level, but done with a whole team of people with similar desires and ideals. CrossFit is a tight family of supportive people.