Crossfit

I have been doing CrossFit for almost 4 months now. The first 3 months I loved going but I wasn’t consistent. I would look at the WOD online and decide it was too hard or that something else was more important. I wasn’t eating clean like I should have been. The past month I have been going 5-6 days a week and eating cleaner than ever before. I can tell a huge difference in my performance, my energy and the numbers I am putting up on the board.

We asked two of New York Citys top CrossFit trainers for the goods on the box, WODs and how to stay safe and see results, so the only thing looking whack in class will be your ripped arms.

All the cool kids are doing CrossFit these days. Does it work? Should we all become "WODKILLAS"?

What makes CrossFit appealing to members and confusing to outsiders is that it’s more than a workout - it’s a cultural identity. A new book on the subject may also only appeal to the initiated.

Game, Mission and Life is the guiding principle behind CrossFit, a unique training approach to building a broad, general, but inclusive definition of fitness. Essentially, it is a form of functional training that utilizes constantly varied, high-intensity, functional movement patterns to improve activity of daily living (ADL) efficiency. Or, as CrossFit describes it, these workouts are designed to prepare the body for any physical contingency-not only the known, but also the unknown.

Let’s start with this: I love Crossfit. After years of gym lifting, classroom cardio and yoga, yoga, yoga, I find Crossfit to be a refreshing, challenging and powerful method of achieving fitness. I’m stronger, faster and have better endurance at 38 than I ever had at 20. I attribute all of this to Crossfit and Crossfit alone.

CrossFit is everywhere these days. You can watch the CrossFit Games on ESPN. Last night I saw a commercial with CrossFit and Reebok. It's showing up in magazines everywhere and has a huge presence online.

If you’re a female and do CrossFit, then good on you. You know the benefits and understand what high-intensity functional fitness means not only to the shape of your body but also your overall health.

CrossFit is a fitness program created by Greg Glassman and is a registered trademark of CrossFit, Inc. which was founded by Greg Glassman and Lauren Jenai.

CrossFit is constantly varied functional movements performed at relatively high intensity. All CrossFit workouts are based on functional movements, and these movements reflect the best aspects of gymnastics, weightlifting, running, rowing and more. These are the core movements of life.