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Questions you are asking yourself

What kind of training is this?

The CrossFit method is to establish a hierarchy of effort and concern that builds as follows:

• Diet – lays the molecular foundations for fitness and health.
• Metabolic Conditioning – builds capacity in each of three metabolic pathways, beginning with aerobic, then lactic acid, and then phosphocreatine pathways.
• Gymnastics – establishes functional capacity for body control and range of motion.
• Weightlifting and throwing – develop ability to control external objects and produce power.
• Sports – applies fitness in competitive atmosphere with more randomized movements and skill mastery.

Examples:
Biking, running, swimming, and rowing in an endless variety of drills.  The clean & jerk, snatch, squat, dead-lift, push-press, bench-press and power-clean.  Jumping, medicine ball throws and catches, pull-ups, dips, push-ups, handstands, presses to handstand, pirouettes, kips, cartwheels, muscle-ups, sit-ups, scales and holds.  We make regular free exercise mat, horizontal bar, plyo-metrics boxes, medicine balls and jump rope.  There isn’t a strength and conditioning program anywhere that works with a greater diversity of tools, modalities and drills.

Can I enjoy optimal health without being an athlete?

No!  Athletes experience a protection from the ravages of aging and disease that non-athletes never find.  For instance, 80 year old athletes are stronger than non-athletes in their prime at 25 years old.  If you think that strength isn’t important consider that strength loss is what puts people in nursing homes.  The CrossFit program is designed to create greater bone density, stronger immune systems, less coronary heart disease, reduced cancer risk, few strokes and less depression than those who remain inactive through adulthood.

Is this for me?

Absolutely!  Your needs and the Olympic athlete’s differ by degree, not kind.  The amazing truth is that the very same methods that elicit optimal response in the Olympic or professional athlete will optimize the same response in everyone.  Of course, we can’t load your grandmother with the same squatting weight that we’d assign an Olympic skier, but they both need to squat.  Squatting is just one example of a movement that is universally valuable and essential yet rarely taught to any but the most advanced of athletes.  With thorough coaching and incremental load assignments, Carolina CrossFit can teach anyone who can care for themselves to perform the same movements typically utilized by professional coaches in elite and exclusive environments in a safe and defective manner.

Who has benefited from this training?

Everyone who participates in the program, from elite athletes to sedentary non-athletes.