CrossFit Koncepts

Do you know how much exercise you need? Do you know the correct composition of exercises that you need to maintain your strength, mobility and longevity? Do you know when enough is enough? I'm guessing if you don't, then the person who is "training" you doesn't know either!

Think about it this way: programming for exercise is highly individualized but also is pretty standardized. You need to have sufficient exercise to create adaptation but not so much that you can't recover from it in a timely manner and it leads to injury or illness. The program needs to have enough variety of exercises that the body is stimulated in a variety of planes of movement, but no plane can be over-emphasized (unless there is a specific purpose behind it).

This thought process is completely foreign to most trainers and almost all CrossFit gyms. High reps, heavy loads and heinous technique is on the menu seven days a week. It's no wonder that injury and burnout are rampant...

Something to think about is that you can make a tremendous amount of progress by limiting your training to a handful of techniques (within the realm of push, pull, squat, hinge, carry and other) and manageable and safe loads. How do I know this? Because I have twenty years of experience training people with this concept as the driving force and hundreds of clients around the world who are living advertisements for the effectiveness of this method.

Unfortunately, training in this common sense manner will exempt you from appearing in CrossFit Fail Videos on YouTube or making unexpected trips to the ER... but do you really want to be famous for that?