WHAT IS CROSSFIT?

CrossFit is an effective way to get fit. Anyone can do it. It is a fitness program that combines a wide variety of functional movements into a timed or scored workout. We do pull-ups, squats, push-ups, weightlifting, gymnastics, running, rowing, and a host of other movements. Always varied, always changing, always producing results. Kids, cops, firefighters, soccer moms, Navy SEALS, and grandmas all do CrossFit. In fact, hundreds of thousands worldwide have followed our workouts and distinguished themselves in combat, the streets, the ring, stadiums, gyms and homes. Welcome.

HOW TO START

Follow the Workout of the Day (WOD). Learn and do the movements and workouts on your own.
Find a local CrossFit affiliate here. Get a coach suited to you and train in a group. The gym will feel more like home than ever before.

CROSSFIT LINGO

WOD = Workout of the Day

Affiliates = Independently-owned and operated CrossFit gyms

Boxes = CrossFit term for "gyms"

WORLD-CLASS FITNESS IN 100 WORDS

Eat meat and vegetables, nuts and seeds, some fruit, little starch and no sugar. Keep intake to levels that will support exercise but not body fat. Practice and train major lifts: Deadlift, clean, squat, presses, C&J, and snatch. Similarly, master the basics of gymnastics: pull-ups, dips, rope climb, push-ups, sit-ups, presses to handstand, pirouettes, flips, splits, and holds. Bike, run, swim, row, etc, hard and fast. Five or six days per week mix these elements in as many combinations and patterns as creativity will allow. Routine is the enemy. Keep workouts short and intense. Regularly learn and play new sports.

~Greg Glassman

LEARN MORE

We’ve compiled a decade’s worth of videos, articles, and exercise demos in the CrossFit Journal and exercise page.