What is CrossFit?
A trademarked exercise regimen, CrossFit emphasizes "constantly varied functional movements, executed at a high intensity". This high-intensity, functional training program includes weightlifting, gymnastics, and cardio. This program is adjustable, suitable for all fitness levels, and promotes community and support.
CrossFit in a Nutshell
Key Aspects of CrossFit:
CrossFit emphasizes “constantly varied high-intensity functional movement,” incorporating categories and activities such as calisthenics, Olympic-style weightlifting, powerlifting, strongman-type events, plyometrics, bodyweight exercises, indoor rowing, aerobic exercise, jogging, and swimming.
- Functional Movements
- CrossFit emphasizes motions that mirror real-life actions such as squatting, pulling, and pushing.
- Constantly Varied
- Workouts vary from day to day, incorporating disciplines such as weightlifting, gymnastics, and cardiovascular exercise.
- High Intensity
- Workouts are done at great intensity, pushing individuals to their limitations.
- Community Focused
- CrossFit gyms (called 'boxes') emphasize a strong sense of community and support, with coaches guiding athletes through workouts.
How does Redemption Road use CrossFit to promote healthy lifestyles within our incarcerated communities?
We believe that healthy habits promote a healthy life, and prison is an opportunity for people who have made significant mistakes in their past to reform those bad habits. Those bad habits can be reformed with continuous exposure to healthy influences and training from others treating one another as responsible adults, with an emphasis on proper morality.
- ◆CrossFit is a series of routines that challenge the body and the mind to their limits, and is community based.
- ◆In this program we want to connect men in prison with the world of CrossFit, and to give them a healthy family that believes in these things as well.
Join the Movement!
Find out how you can get involved and be a part of the Reps For Redemption Program with RF2