What is CrossFit?
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.
The CrossFit program is designed for universal scalability making it the perfect application for any committed individual regardless of experience. The same routines can be used for elderly individuals with heart disease and cage fighters one month out from televised bouts. The program scale loads and intensity changes, but the workouts don't. The needs of Olympic athletes and our grandparents differ by degree not kind. Olympic athletes, skiers, mountain bike riders and housewives have found their best fitness from the same regimen.
Thousands of athletes worldwide follow the CrossFit methodology and distinguished themselves in combat, the streets, the ring, stadiums, gyms and homes.
The Matrix offers group classes and private training for committed individuals who are looking to take their work-out to another level. There are multiple CrossFit packages available and can be combined with the 24-hour Fitness facility to ensure members are mixing traditional work-outs with the unique CrossFit training! Also, check out the link to the right: "Athletic Team Training" for more information and pictures of Matrix members and athletes participating in CrossFit classes!
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Read more about CrossFit workouts and affiliated gyms nationwide in the CrossFit journal
The Matrix also offers Athletic Team training/Sport Specific training for athletes of all kinds. From football & baseball, to rugby & wrestlers, the CrossFit program will help athletes gain confidence, while improving flexibility, stamina, & endurance. Please click on Special Programs: Athletic Team Training for more information and to download the Team training brochure.
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What is CrossFit KIDS?
CrossFit KIDS is a functional fitness program; one which prepares the individual for the rigors of daily life, must collectively enhance each of these areas of fitness. The CrossFit Kids program uses the template of randomized, functional exercises, performed at high intensity. Adjustments are made to accommodate the specific needs and requirements of children and teens. Workouts consist of exercises containing elements drawn from the above enumerated physical skills, while special attention is paid to utilizing progressions for difficult or compound movements, and progressive loading dictated by size, age and consistency in form.
Using the above template, CrossFit Kids often perform workouts with a time component, moving quickly from one exercise to the next, thereby creating the intensity necessary to achieve these goals. Highly vigorous exercises like box jumps, tuck jumps, jump rope, sprints, etc. create aerobic and metabolic changes which increase cardiovascular/respiratory endurance and stamina. This positively impacts the body’s capacity for exercise and lays the foundation for the remaining general physical skills. (excerpts from Cyndi Rodi, copyright CrossFit KIDS 2007).
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