Fitness Crossfit
In the world of fitness and training, periodically new trends, exercise fads and trends emerge that are sweeping every gym room. A few years ago crossfit arrived and it has been spreading as a discipline for all audiences, but is that true? What does it consist of?
Crossfit comes from the coast of California in the United States. Back in 1974, coach Greg Glassman was looking for a formula to optimize athletes’ workouts. He was the one who gave himself a name and made known this discipline that aims to improve physical condition in a lesser amount of time. He did this after observing that traditional bodybuilding workouts were not efficient and did not serve to improve a person’s physical condition in relation to the amount of time that had to be devoted to them. Therefore, he decided to create a type of training focused on functional movements and their performance at high intensity.
What began as professionals, spread throughout the world and at all levels, combining a series of varied exercises of cardio, weightlifting, athletics, gymnastics and power. What you are primarily looking for is to improve metabolic function.
Thus, crossfit programs are made up of resistance and different physical activities. In addition, it works on all abilities and skills: cardiovascular and respiratory endurance, muscular endurance, strength, flexibility, power, speed, agility, psychomotor skills, balance and precision.
Each session is divided into different parts. A first warm-up, to stretch, warm up and avoid injuries. Then comes the part that works the strength and the technique to perform the exercises correctly and finally another in which a training is more focused on working the resistance by reducing the amount of weight and the rest and increasing the repetitions.
Advantages
- Get very good results effectively
- Can be done outdoors
- Promotes performance in other sports
- Is very complete
- Each workout is different and fun which creates adherence
Disadvantages
- It can cause frustration if the objectives are not adapted to the athlete
- His poor execution or lack of physical preparation are the cause of injuries
- You need time to adapt and the training has to be gradual
- Its intensity and type of exercises is not for all audiences
- You need good coaches and professionals