Just a reminder that we are closed all day Wednesday. Sorry for the inconvinace athletes. I would take this day to rest or do active recovery! Have a great day!
Here are some quotes from the founder himself. I put some of my favorites in red for you! Enjoy.
Greg Glassman (source: crossfit.com)
"It is very motivating to get your sac publicly smoked by a five-foot female hippie pottery teacher from the local high school." (Special Forces reaction to CrossFit seminar)
"Hiding from your weaknesses is a recipe for incapacity and error."
"Triathletes are sorely lacking in strength, speed, power, flexibility, accuracy, agility, and coordination, but they've sure got a lock on malnutrition."
"Training for a fight by running twenty minutes every day makes perfect sense if you plan on running away from your opponent and know you will be getting a ten minute head start."
"The cost of regular extended aerobic training is decreased speed, power, and strength."
"An athlete diminished by excessive aerobic training is slow and weak. At CrossFit we call that state, 'spun-down.'"
"Stick to the basics and when you feel you've mastered them it's time to start all over again, begin anew - again with the basics - this time paying closer attention."
"There is no single sport or activity that trains for perfect fitness. True fitness requires a compromise in adaptation broader than the demands of most every sport."
"Cardiorespiratory endurance, stamina, strength, power, speed, flexibility, agility, accuracy, balance, and coordination: you're as good as your weakest link."
"Squat, jump, climb, throw, lift."
"Generating and sustaining significant work output from the upper body is a critical domain generally, and sadly, reserved for rowers, combatants, and cross country skiers."
"No, it doesn't ever get any easier. You wouldn't want it to either."
"Blur the distinction between strength training and metabolic conditioning for the simple reason that nature's challenges are typically blind to the distinction."
"Reserve the long slow distance work for recreational breaks from your regular training regimen."
"Farther, longer is not fitter, is not healthier."
"Your gym isn't complete without parallettes; not even close."
"Go home - Get 25-30 dips - then come back in here and you will have about 3 dips on my rings."
"For many of our people fitness training has become their sport--a sport where the aims are simply to become as fit as possible."
"Few understand the overwhelming importance of anaerobic exercise to general fitness."
"First, second, third, dead fuckin' last." (on the motivating properties of keeping score)
"Prescribing thirty minute bouts of monostructural cardio (bike, run, swim, row, elliptical walker, etc.) in the hopes of maximizing fitness for a fight of five rounds of five minutes each is the epitome of incompetence."
"The distinction we make between resistance training and metabolic training ("cardio") may seem clear to us, but nature honors no such distinction."
"Just because you're 250 pounds doesn't excuse or exempt you from needing 25 pull-ups."
"Be impressed by intensity, not volume."
"If you can brag about either a low 4's mile or a high 4's bench press you could also be a lot fitter."
"Have fun screwing up...it means you are removing your ego from the problem."
"We are practicing not weightlifting but commitment. Commitment spawns success. Only by redoubling our efforts do we best succeed. Expecting success to motivate our efforts is the loser's gambit."
"The magic is in the movement, the art is in the programming, the science is in the explanation, and the fun is in the community."
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