FAQ

FAQ

What is the point of this blog?

 - To contribute to the fitness community, to combat obesity and diabetes, and to create a positive place to talk about fitness.

What is your background in this field?

- I'm actually a college student on my school's competitive CFIT team. I fell in love with bodybuilding and powerlifting when I was in high school and read literally thousands of articles on the subjects.  After years of supersets and heavy back squats, it dawned on me that I was slower than ever, heavier than ever, and not strong enough to justify my loss of athleticism. CrossFit was the next step, but pure CrossFit believes in random workouts and while I improved in many areas I did not make any serious gains. From there, I moved onto a hybrid model of CrossFit styled training that incorporated more structure into my programming to make solid, effective, and safe fitness progress. Now I train my family and some friends and they love it!

What is Fitness?

- There are many definitions of fitness. Most of these definitions suggest that more fit athletes are capable of performing certain feats better than others.  None really measured or established a standard for broad and generally inclusive fitness until CrossFit founder and CEO, Greg Glassman, defined fitness in terms of work capacity over time, which can be measured. World class fitness can be achieved through nutrition that maintains muscle not body fat, compound lifts and movements, and working out most days in constantly varied ways. Routine and segmented training is the opposite of fitness according to Glassman. Athletes that consistently complete all different types of workouts better than others are simply more "fit."

I've done a lot of research on this topic and Greg Glassman and the CrossFit Community really nail this with some interesting research to back up their claims. Check it out at this link.

http://library.crossfit.com/free/pdf/CFJ_Trial_04_2012.pdf

What are your goals?

- Get into Grad school, possibly open up a CrossFit box, and hopefully compete CrossFit.

What are my expectations?

- That you guys and gals post comments so we can have a lively and interactive community. Regardless of your goals, the programming I post will contribute to them. If you have a question post it and I will answer. If you want to get stronger, faster, jump higher, lose weight, blah blah blah then you're in the right spot.

Where should I send pictures or video for the site?

- I want to post pics and video of you guys in action. Send as much as you want my way to @jgrits94@gmail.com and I will put you on the site!

Thanks, Coach


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