Once upon a long long time ... okay, not really, it was about 3 months. I wrote again with Franky on PN, topic of conversation was CrossFit. We arrived quite quickly to the denominator, as people who value overall athleticism, not just the pounds on the barbell set that CrossFit seemed to be a very interesting thing. But what exactly is CrossFit?
Beginner Program for men
CrossFit is a sport that emphasizes overall athleticism, that is, strength, endurance, agility, coordination and precision. ". All well and good but there are many other sports," you think for sure, but CrossFit is athletic - no more, no less.
It is this involves all sorts of exercises, forms and variations, to name just a few worth mentioning:
Sprints
Rowing
Jumps
Body weight exercises
Olympic Weightlifting Exercises
Kettle Bells
Rope Training
and much more.
Everything colorful mixed and taken from different sports. "Well," I thought to myself, "I'm sitting here near Los Angeles in front of the door." So I thought I try it out again.
Short anticipated, I am martial artist and avid followers of functional strength training, so were not exercises like deadlifts with bands, plyometric jumps, excessive fitness training with kettlebells, ropes, training on / with gymnastic rings, etc. are not really something new for me.
The next day I thought to myself in the car on the way to shop, when I in a "CrossFit certified school" - in short, affiliate - drove past: "Okay, the purchase can wait an hour." And turning a parking lot looking for. Packed gym bag taken away, I've basically always in the trunk. Then once again to ruin.
When I came in, and I was a typical American gym with a protein bar on the fat housewives their "Fatkiller Shake" sipped and talked about the latest happenings from radio and television. The friendly young girl at the counter smiled at me and asked how she could help me.
I said to her that I would like to attend a trial class CrossFit. She said this was not a problem, the next course would begin in about 30 minutes and it was not a problem that I could join in there, of course, free as a trial class. She asked me which group I would like to beginners, advanced, intensive or elite, which can only be visited on the recommendation of one of the leaders. "Do you wear not so thick at times." I thought me and told her that I wanted to take the group advanced.
I sat at the bar and ordered me a protein shake for $ 5, I would probably get it cheaper, I would take him into the WalMart and had my whey with the contents of a Pepsi can cut into the shaker. would be from the taste and the nutritional values, no differences were found.
Time passed, I went to move me and moved slowly to the classroom that I mentioned. Once there, I ventured a look inside. Many kettlebells, a couple of ropes, pull-up bars and a rack with rings. Gradually, I followed some people, while a young plump woman of whom I had not remembered that she had canceled the BJJ trial training because they are "bucket Puke" our completed a new high record, a few middle-aged men who a very fit impression made, then the "Instructor", one would rather keep the participants in a fat burner price. - End of 20, slight Plauze, you could see that he was training off and on since he was more muscular than the average American sports.
After some talk go to the "new", which represented, interestingly, 6 of 8 participants of the course, and four rounds of the approximately 10x10m measured the training room to warm up, we went to go too. First, the Kettlebell Snatch was my turn.
Moooooment ... Kettlebell snatch? For people who have never in life had a kettlebell in your hand? Well, hallelujah.
was then for 3x1 minutes with 1 minute rest between sets of kettlebell snatch run, the instructor went through the ranks, the non-existent technology corrected coarse, probably without really even knowing what he was doing.
Then were added Ringklimmzge who they did not manage alone, an elastic band got to support what it all but I got it. He showed the practice briefly, then each made four people the kettlebell snatch, forcing the other four people make Ringklimmzge.
Back for 3x1 minutes, then was changed. I began to bore, but it went on so for three more circles 5 minutes, including break times, before it added the Kettlebell Squat. To run all he said, should we make it so, how can we best.
"No problem!" I thought to myself. "I have not visited even a few seminars by Steve Cotter (Kettlebell Guru), there is is probably laughing!" and was bored with two 16kg kettlebells my squats, while the instructor was not around to correct the non-existing technology and thus avoided the participants were really due to poor technology to potential participants of the intervertebral disc rehabilitation course.
No, the instructor gave directions, grabbed the phone and rang a little with his wife or girlfriend, in between he then gave some guidelines on how the circles are to be mixed and what time shall comply with it, which he conveniently on a remote control for the timer other end of the room commit. Then came the inevitable ..
