Sunday, August 5, 2012

CrossFit education 101


Team, here's a look at CrossFit workout categories

  • Weightlifting - Powerlifting and Olympic weightlifting workouts

  • Endurance - Swimming, biking, running, or indoor rowing

  • Bodyweight - Workouts involving bodyweight exercises only i.e. Burpees :)

  • Kettlebells - Kettlebell workouts with or without bodyweight exercises i.e. Turkish get ups

  • Singlets - Single element workouts; weightlifting (W),  bodyweight (B), or Metcons (M) (Met)abolic (con)ditioning- Metcons don't have a true definition but usually require 
  • 1. High heart rate
  • 2. Simultaneous use of many muscles
  • 3. Continuous movement
  • 4. Short to medium time (5-30 min)
  • 5. Increased breathing rate 
  • 6 Pain :)
  • Fran is a great example of a Metcon
  • 21-15-9 Thrusters and pull-ups
  • Couplets - Two element workouts; WM, BM, WW, WB, etc. i.e. Thrusters and burpees would be a WB-weightlifting and bodyweight WOD

  • Triplets - Three element workouts - BWM, WBM, WWB, BBB, etc.

  • Hybrids - Mixed-modal workouts, four or more exercises performed for multiple rounds i.e.
  • 5rds for time
  • 12 box jumps
  • 6 toes to bar
  • 6 Thrusters
  • 12 KB swings

  • Chippers - Multiple exercises in single round format
  • Jungle Cat 11 WOD is a great Chipper example

  • The Hopper - All workouts

  • AMRAP - Work-priority WODs, "As many rounds as possible" (set time i.e. 12 min AMRAP 7 burpees, 7 deadlifts, 7 wall ball shots) 

  • Hero - WODs named in honor of fallen Mil/LEO (these are meant to break you off)

  • Girls - CFHQ's original named benchmark WODs

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