Crossfit is the top growing fitness empire, and has been for 10 years. Between classes, work, homework, and a social life being a college student can be a busy job. Trying to fit in a workout can be hard and overwhelming. Walking into a gym full of machines, is intimidating for someone who does not know exactly what they are doing. Without having someone there to guide you through, you could potentially be doing harm to your body. In a crossfit gym one is walking into a gym with very little equipment, a pre-planned work-out, and trainers there to help with anything needed. What really sets crossfit apart from other work out empires is that you work in groups but towards your own personal goal. Making an investment towards crossfit could help your personal fitness as well in the long run. Every day there is a work out posted on the Crossfit web page that tells you the work out for the day. They’re already making sure that when someone walks in they have the option to know what they are in …show more content…
With CrossFit being considered a high intensity exercise, just a single workout for 20 minutes can burn up to nine times more fat than a moderate-intensity work out that last 45 minutes (Herz). Another reason the CrossFit population is growing is due to the passionate adherence, being able to complete a workout that is physically difficult and almost feels impossible brings the sense of accomplishment out in people. When needed the workouts are scaled to the weight each person needs, but no matter what everyone is giving 100% effort (Herz). People tend to push themselves harder when they have a group of people doing the same thing they are, which is what makes CrossFit workouts fun and more enjoyable. Everyone around you is fighting to finish the workout or working to push themselves to the last second, all to make you as an individual stronger or
Working out doesn't have to be a chore, it can actually be a place of peace and comfort. Exercising has been changed from a social norm to an activity on the
In America alone, only about 51% of Americans exercise 3 or more times a week, and 18% exercise only 1 to 2 times a week (Shy). 30% of American sadly doesn’t do any type of extracurricular activity or exercise at all (Blackburn). For the people who don’t exercise, try to because you can really only benefit from it. The one’s that already do know the health benefits for exercising. Aside from just exercising, one activity or activities you could do is weight lifting/strength training. Most people don’t think about this but strength training is actually a big key for exercise.
Beginning a work out regime might be one of the best things you can accomplish for your wellbeing. All things considered, physical action can lessen your danger of perpetual malady, enhance your equalization and coordination, help you shed pounds, and even support your self-regard. What's more, the advantages are yours for the taking, paying little mind to age, sex or physical capacity.
I started CrossFit in 2014, after researching the rehabilitative effects of the sport. I was experiencing uncontrollable bouts of anxiety, night terrors and anger that was negatively impacting my Army career. I went to a nearby CrossFit box and I signed up on the spot. I immediately became addicted to the intensity of the WODs, the extreme high I got from lifting, and the constant encouragement from those around me. I truly felt my life changing for the better! At one point I tore my MCL at work and I remember how badly I couldn’t wait to get back into the box and do work! CrossFit had become my place of Zen, my home, my own crazy little community. Just over a year later, I got my CF-LV1. I want to do for the CrossFit community what it had
Every person finds fitness for a different reason, but everyone sticks with it for the same reason. They either like the way they feel after they workout or they like the way they look after they workout, besides that there are very few other reasons in between. Once this is understood, it is easy to become literate in the fitness
With America’s obesity rate on the rise a CrossFit gym that welcomes beginners, thoroughly teaches and explains each exercise and can offer a group atmosphere that’s welcoming to individuals who have never worked out before could help decrease the obesity rate. The group aspect of CrossFit is beneficial because it’s a motivator to keep attending workouts and to reach the goals you have personally set. Attending a CrossFit gym could also be a motivator because not only is the coach pushing them to get through the workout but the other members of the class are pushing each
Obesity is a growing issue across the United States. A study in 2009 showed that 35% of Americans were obese (Ogden, Carroll, Kit, & Flegal, 2012). Those within 35% are not the ones only suffering the effects related to obesity. In 1998, the medical costs of obesity were approximately 78.5 billion dollars. That number had risen to 147 billion as of 2006, and half of the costs were paid by Medicare and Medicaid (Finkelstein, Trogdon, Cohen, & Dietz, 2013). Obesity is defined as a weight higher than a healthy weight for a certain height. Obesity is determined by body mass index, which is calculated using height and weight, which is directly tied to the amount of body fat. A total BMI of 30 or higher is considered obese (Center for Disease Control, 2012). Proper Crossfit training promotes overall health and fitness, and could be a solution to the growing issue of obesity.
Exercise is often thought of in a positive light. It is common belief in today’s society that a healthy diet and a regular exercise routine will lead to a long, healthy life. And in the simplest sense of the word, it will. It has been a tried and true method to control and lose weight, lift a person’s mood, boost energy, combat a variety of health conditions and diseases, promote better sleep patterns, and even increase libido. (Mayo Clinic, July 23, 2011). So with all of these being possible and probable benefits of working out, why would it possibly be anything other than good? Certainly, something with so many benefits can’t be a bad thing? However, we may overlook the fact that it is like any good thing; in excess it can become dangerous very quickly. In society, there are increasingly more athletes that are pushing themselves so hard to the point they are making themselves sick. Whatever happened to exercising for simple joy, or competing because of a love for sport? The motivations behind an individual’s exercise habits are directly related to whether they develop an addiction. There is even a term for this over exercising phenomenon: Exercise Addiction, or Exercise Dependence.
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The gym is relatively square with widows covering half of the room. The other half of the room has a wall of mirrors with the last wall having a hallway to bathrooms as well as the fitness trainer’s office. On one of the window walls it has a row of cardio equipment (that has attached TV’s on them) facing the outside. In the back corner near the cardio equipment is a stretching and body exercise area (kettle bells, mats, exercise balls, medicine balls, and stepping stands). In the center are weight machines that range from leg, arm, and abdominal equipment. The wall with the mirrors contains the free weights and other bench press and weight machines. Overall...
Being physically fit inside and out is something that every person can control and achieve, but only through strong self-discipline. “The $52.9 billion fitness industry is constantly coming out with activities and products designed to get and keep us interested in working out” (Whigham-Desir 84). Two of these types of workouts, specifically Tae-Bo and Spinning, were created just for the purpose of keeping “us” interested in working out. Despite this revolution in the fitness industry, many false preconceived notions about losing weight persist and impede the movement. As the media bombard the American public with unrealistic images, a new obsession with fitness has hit the markets.
The article, “5 Ways Crossfit Differs From Bodybuilding”, talks about bodybuilders importance of training. “A bodybuilder’s training is split up to divide muscle groups, ensuring muscles grow and rest in balance, providing weaker groups the extra attention needed to balance physique.” Bodybuilders focus more on having time for their muscles to grow and rest rather than having cardio workouts and working out every day. Bodybuilders base their workout on what they eat. An example is that they workout less than a crossfitter does, but expects the extreme amount of protein they ingest to build their muscles. Bodybuilders will workout for longer periods of time doing less intense, but more muscle building workouts. They workout individual muscles to ensure they are growing them. The goal of a bodybuilder is to be big and muscular, so they do not incorporate near as much cardio as a crossfitter
People are too overwhelmed to think that it would benefit them. Even taking a jog would require too much of an effort. Because of society’s obligations, the worries of an average everyday routine bring them devastation. It becomes difficult to try to find time within their schedules to squeeze in a time to run. Adding exercise on their to-do list would result in more pressure while trying to reduce stress is the last priority on their mind. However, if they were able to manage their time and duties, making time to get involved in a cardio workout would not be a problem. They would be able to experience the true benefits of exercise and see how it could translate into reducing stress in their lives.
Naturally, people are going to think that by exercising you have to train like an athlete to get these benefits, but that’s completely wrong. Dr.Mercola mentions, “ Two-thirds of Americans get no exercise at all. If one of those people gets up and moves around for 20 minutes, they’re going to get a huge number of health benefits, and everything beyond that 20 minutes is, to some degree, gravy. That doesn’t mean i’m suggesting people should not exercise more if they want to. You can always do more. But the science shows that if you just do anything, even stand in place 20 minutes, you will be healthier.” On that account, excessive hardcore exercise isn’t needed to receive several health benefits; only 20 minutes of standing up per day will suffice. There are various different types of exercises someone can do, there are a list of them on the Peak Fitness website. Overall, there are copious quantities of emotional, internal, and physical effects of
The benefit of physical fitness is to prevent obesity and encourage a healthy lifestyle thru training and focusing on the body’s compositions. Physical fitness is the measure of the body’s ability to go full capacity. If one doesn’t exercise ones body doesn’t work at its full potential all the time. Exercise can lower the risk of having major problems with ones body and relieve stress.