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Why CrossFitters Need Yoga

December 30, 2017 by Christopher Douglas

All CrossFit athletes want to perform their best at what they love while minimizing the risk of injury and overuse. Let’s face it: Injuries and chronic muscle or joint pain suck. Do you find yourself constantly struggling with:

  • repetitive muscle strain or joint pain
  • discomfort from overly sore/tight muscles
  • movement restrictions
  • lack of joint mobility in key load bearing joints

Have you ever wondered why?

In this article, we’ll answer that question. We’ll also discuss how yoga can help CrossFit athletes unravel poor posture habits, and the multiple benefits that you can gain by adding yoga to your regular training regime. Here’s a sneak peak:

Benefits of Yoga for CrossFit Athletes

Yoga is a perfect complement to the sport of CrossFit and can benefit athletes of all disciplines, genders, ages and abilities.

When you get into the fitness habit of taking a yoga class designed with the athlete in mind, it will force you to slow down and pay attention to the body you bring into all of your activities.

You’ll be given cues to correct your biomechanics and opportunities to create muscular strength, endurance and flexibility in desirable ranges of motion. This will translate into WOD success naturally as time progresses.

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This is an excellent article and I encourage everyone to read it. Then sign up for yoga with Cecelia—your body will thank you!

yoga pose

 

Filed Under: Fitness Tagged With: crossfit, yoga

New Goals, New Expectations and a New Life

June 29, 2016 by Christopher Douglas

“I’m not going to feel sorry for him, even though he’s been through hell and back. That’s not going to do him any good. I’d rather give him new goals, new expectations and a new life.”

Coach Mike Suhadolnik works with Peter Glatz, a dentist and food and music enthusiast, at CrossFit Instinct in Springfield, Illinois. After losing his wife, Glatz turned to CrossFit to change his lifestyle.

More and more seniors are using CrossFit to ensure their golden years are rich with vitality. Your age doesn’t limit you—it’s never too late to get fit! For more information on the benefits of Senior CrossFit, download this ebook, Older, Wiser, Fitter. 

Filed Under: Fitness Tagged With: crossfit, senior

Are you doing Murph?

May 30, 2016 by Christopher Douglas

Just wanted to check-in with you really quick today…

This weekend, thousands of athletes will be hitting “Murph” in honor of Lt. Michael Murphy and in observance of Memorial Day (U.S. Holiday).

For time:

1 Mile Run
100 Pull-ups
200 Push-ups
300 Squats
1 Mile Run

This workout was Lt. Murphy’s favorite. He called it “Body Armor” because he always did it wearing his vest. In fact, here are the details according to the CrossFit HQ website:

“In memory of Navy Lieutenant Michael Murphy, 29, of Patchogue, N.Y., who was killed in Afghanistan June 28th, 2005.

This workout was one of Mike’s favorites and he’d named it “Body Armor”. From here on it will be referred to as “Murph” in honor of the focused warrior and great American who wanted nothing more in life than to serve this great country and the beautiful people who make it what it is.

Partition the pull-ups, push-ups, and squats as needed. Start and finish with a mile run. If you’ve got a twenty pound vest or body armor, wear it.”

Regardless of your nationality, please take a moment to acknowledge the selflessness and valor displayed by this hero. If you’ve never done this workout, I invite you to try it this weekend with a couple friends. Or join us at Paramount Strength & Conditioning Monday, May 30th at 10am!

Remember: getting “RX” or hitting a huge “PR” isn’t the focus of this workout. It’s all about giving EVERYTHING and putting forth your best effort regardless of your ability level. 

If you get a chance, leave a comment and let me know your results. I may not respond to every comment, but I really appreciate it when I hear from you.

—Coach Chris

We had a great time running "Murph" today in honor of those soldiers who have given their lives for our freedom.
We had a great time running “Murph” today in honor of those soldiers who have given their lives for our freedom.

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Patti: A Journey Toward Wellness

February 7, 2016 by Christopher Douglas

I LOVE this story of one woman’s journey in CrossFit. Who here has sat in their car outside of a CrossFit gym, wanting to go in but too afraid? *raises hand (all the way back in 2009!)* I still love CrossFit all these years later because 1) it’s okay to come as you are, 2) it builds great relationships, and 3) it works! Mind, body, and spirit.

–Coach Olivia

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What Is a WOD?

February 5, 2016 by Christopher Douglas

WOD = Workout of the Day

Paramount Strength & Conditioning offers a daily high intensity group fitness workout coached by CrossFit certified personal trainers. We follow a “minimalist program”and this is reflected by the functionality and limited number of our exercises and the simplicity of the equipment we use compared to most commercial gyms. What you’ll find: an Olympic weight set and a place to do pull-ups and dips is essential to doing CrossFit; gymnastics rings and parallettes, plyometrics boxes, a Dynamax medicine ball, dumbbells, kettlebells, Concept II Rower and a glute-ham developer.

WHAT TO EXPECT

CrossFit workouts are extremely demanding and will tax the capacities of even the world’s best athletes so we advise anyone new to CrossFit to take on each WOD carefully and cautiously, working first towards completing the workouts comfortably and consistently before “throwing” yourself at them 100%. The best results come for those who’ve “gone through the motions” of the WOD by reducing recommended loads, reps and sets while not endeavoring towards impressive times for a month before turning up the heat. We counsel you to establish consistency with the WOD before maximizing intensity.

Classes: Unless otherwise noted, all training offered by Paramount SC is performed in a group setting, at a predetermined time. Each group training class offered on a particular day conducts the same workout of the day, or “WOD” – if you miss a morning class, you can pick up an evening class without missing a beat. Classes are lead by a head instructor; depending on class size, a second instructor may join to help ensure that each athlete is getting the level of instruction consistent with Paramount SC’s standards. Group Training Classes are infinitely scalable according to the needs, strengths, and weaknesses of each athlete. Additionally, select elements of each workout can be customized to suit the capabilities, fitness-level, or fitness goals of each attendee.

Structure: Consistent with CrossFit programming guidelines, few – if any –  Group Training WOD’s will take no more than 30 minutes to complete. That said, participants should still expect to be in the gym for one hour. In addition to comprehensive warmup and cool-downs, time between the WOD and the Warmup / Cool-down is spent instructing and practicing movements designed to both increase skill competency and improve mobility.

WODs: In order to reduce the temptation to selectively attend workouts which appear to be more favorable, WOD’s are released in the early morning hours of the day they’re to be performed on the Paramount SC website.

Filed Under: Fitness Tagged With: crossfit, WOD, workout of the day

What Is CrossFit?

February 5, 2016 by Christopher Douglas

TRANSCRIPT

You haven’t heard of CrossFit? Let me tell you about CrossFit.

CrossFit is a lifestyle in which you are prioritizing your health. The ability to do many different things at a high level of intensity.

I think it’s the absolute best way to help you reach your fitness goals.

For me, it’s making me happy. A fun way to get fit with a lot of people. The last person finishing is the just as important as the first one.

It’s this team atmosphere that ends up making you better as an individual. It’s camaraderie, that family that you end up building and the energy that you get back from it yourself, that’s CrossFit to me.

You come to a CrossFit gym everybody knows your name, everybody loves you and you’re a part of something bigger than just getting a workout.

CrossFit gave me that something extra that I kinda needed in life.

It’s my outlet, I love it. It’s my passion. It’s commitment. CrossFit is a sport now.

I like the challenge, I compete with myself, I’m healthier, I am stronger. Even though I was sore, I was, you know, getting a little discouraged, you know … I felt accountable because my community, or I felt accountable to my class because they were looking for me there.

Finding CrossFit and then having to work really dang hard for whatever your goal is … whether its to compete or just get a damn pull-up. I love it ’cause the workout’s different everyday, I can come in and I don’t know what I’m doing.

Everyone is welcoming, everyone is cheering you on. They don’t let you quit even if you wanna quit.

We all share this experience, which is emotional. It doesn’t look emotional, it looks like people working out … but it’s emotional. I mean it’s raw, it’s intense, it’s incredible, it’s freakin’ awesome. I’m gonna keep doing it for a long time, I hope.

CrossFit, to me, is a fitness program where the reward for doing well is the ability to express your fitness in everyday life in as many different planes or as many different activities that you can possibly imagine.

People walk through the door and say, ‘Hey, where’s all the machines?’ We’re the machines!

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