Every time you work out, you have a choice – sit on a stationary bike, elliptical, or treadmill and read the newspaper, going at a moderate pace, or do the typical three days of lifting weights to focus on isolated body parts with some cardio thrown in on the off days; or you can challenge your body to do something new, hard, and intense. Challenge yourself to do something that your body needs to adapt and adjust to. When you choose the latter, you are effectively backing your body into a corner – adapt or suffer. We guarantee that with CrossFit, your body will adapt. People that choose the former style of working out are the ones you see at the gym day-after-day, year-after-year with the same body and same results as always.
At CrossFit Ocean City, you'll NEVER do a bicep curl or a leg extension. We choose exercises and workouts that make large demands on your nervous and muscular systems and require many muscle groups to work together synergistically, or what we refer to as functional movements. Body weight exercises challenge you to be strong and agile enough to be in control of your body (pull ups, dips, handstand push ups, push ups, etc). Weightlifting exercises require technique and skill, and call upon a large number of muscles in your body to work together at the same time (squat, deadlift, clean, jerk, snatch, thrusters, kettlebells, etc). At CrossFit Ocean City, we'll coach you through all of the bodyweight exercises and weightlifting with proper form before we allow you to increase your intensity on the workouts.
Most of what you will see when you come to CrossFit Ocean City is open space. Our "machines" are free weights - to simply pick them up requires skill, balance, stabilization, proprioception, and accuracy. We teach skills and movements that require functional and multi-joint (require movement across 2 or more joints in your body) movements, from core to extremities. These neuromuscular activities are commonplace in both life and in sport, and since our objective in training is to mimic both, weightlifting (i.e. the sport of lifting weights), with proper instruction and coaching, works this best.
-Edited and reprinted with permission from CrossFit LA
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