The Gymnast has no equal in terms of the pound for pound ratio of their strength and what they are able to achieve. For the first time ever CrossFit Central is introducing a gymnastics workshop open to the public. Gymnastics is for people who are new to fitness training and for those who are experienced. It encompasses and applies to all sports and fitness in general.
"Gymnastics has no peer among training modalities for developing the four neurological components of the ten skills-coordination, agility, balance, and accuracy." Coach Glassman of CrossFit HQ
In ancient Greece gymnastics was used to train the Greek military and ready their soldiers for warfare. After WWII the US Navy developed a training program which utilized several manuals outlining movements that should be performed in daily fitness regimens, thies included a manual called Gymnastics and Tumbling. Gymnastics has trained Olympians and world class athletes. It is by far the best thing a person can do to increase their strength, body control, and spacial awareness.
Coach Randal Setzler recently attend a CrossFit Gymnastics Certification in Ft. Worth and is bringing all of the techniques he learned to a 3 part workshop at the CrossFit Central Facility. “Gymnasts are the strongest athletes when you look at what they are able to achieve and their body size. There is no other sport that even comes close - pound for pound, what gymnasts can achieve.”
How does Gymnastics play a role in fitness?
"Gymnastics offers individuals amazing strengths with simple techniques. A person who practices aspects of gymnastics can walk into any situation, whether thats particular movement patterns found in a workout or other sports, and pick it up quickly. That is because gymnastics has a high demand for control, body, and spacial awareness. Falls can be limited and even prevented. Injuries can also be limited and prevented because you strengthen your joints as well as your muscles. People at any age or experience level will see these benefits."
How does gymnastics apply to the CrossFit method?
"Gymnastics applies to all aspects of fitness – kettlebells, paralettes, rings, Olympic lifts, pull ups, hand stand push ups, etc. There is a direct correlation between all of these movements and gymnastics. For example, take knees to elbows in Crossfit – this is something that often comes up in workouts. It’s actually a variation of a gymnastics movement called toes to bars where a person hangs on to the bar with straight legs and take their toes to the bar. Gymnastics will teach you how to progress to the correct technique for knees to elbows. Once you have that down we can take it to the next level and learn toes to bar."
Can people with no experience attend the gymnastics Workshop?
"Absolutely! Inside our current training we see a couple of different ways to modify and scale workouts, at the gymnastics workshop you’ll learn even more ways to modify the workout. If you’ve been coming to Crossfit class and have been doing modified hand stand push ups on the box for a while, you will learn new variations and many many more techniques that will take your training and fitness to the next level."
What are the benefits of attending the seminar?
'You will learn new approaches to existing techniques, conditioning drills, you will increase your strength, have a better understanding of body awareness and body control, and you will learn many exercises that you can perform with minimal or no equipment."
The Gymnastics Workshop will be a three part seminar. Each seminar will build upon lessons taught from the previous seminar.
CrossFit Central Gymnastics Workshop
September 20 - Fundamentals
October 11 - Paralettes and Bar
November 1 - Rings
These workshops are open to everone regardless of your fitness level or experience! However, each workshop is limited to 15 people.
RSVP now and secure yourself a spot before it fills up!
More Information and full article-
http://www.crossfitcentral.com/content/view/620/231/
Friday, August 29, 2008
Thursday, August 28, 2008
Abraham Maslow’s 8 Ways to Self-Actualize
1. Experience things fully, vividly, selflessly. Throw yourself into the experiencing of something: concentrate on it fully, let it totally absorb you.
2. Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of progress and growth): Make the growth choice a dozen times a day.
3. Let the self emerge. Try to shut out the external clues as to what you should think, feel, say, and so on, and let your experience enable you to say what you truly feel.
4. When in doubt, be honest. If you look into yourself and are honest, you will also take responsibility. Taking responsibility is self-actualizing.
5. Listen to your own tastes. Be prepared to be unpopular.
6. Use your intelligence, work to do well the things you want to do, no matter how insignificant they seem to be.
7. Make peak experiencing more likely: get rid of illusions and false notions. Learn what you are good at and what your potentialities are not.
8. Find out who you are, what you are, what you like and don't like, what is good and what is bad for you, where you are going, what your mission is. Opening yourself up to yourself in this way means identifying defenses - and then finding the courage to give them up.
Abraham Maslow
(http://webspace. ship. edu/cgboer/maslow. html)
I think this is appropriately timely for many of us at our crossroads. And it is about the journey, I keep reminding myself
2. Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of progress and growth): Make the growth choice a dozen times a day.
3. Let the self emerge. Try to shut out the external clues as to what you should think, feel, say, and so on, and let your experience enable you to say what you truly feel.
4. When in doubt, be honest. If you look into yourself and are honest, you will also take responsibility. Taking responsibility is self-actualizing.
5. Listen to your own tastes. Be prepared to be unpopular.
6. Use your intelligence, work to do well the things you want to do, no matter how insignificant they seem to be.
7. Make peak experiencing more likely: get rid of illusions and false notions. Learn what you are good at and what your potentialities are not.
8. Find out who you are, what you are, what you like and don't like, what is good and what is bad for you, where you are going, what your mission is. Opening yourself up to yourself in this way means identifying defenses - and then finding the courage to give them up.
Abraham Maslow
(http://webspace. ship. edu/cgboer/maslow. html)
I think this is appropriately timely for many of us at our crossroads. And it is about the journey, I keep reminding myself
On The Bar
My take of The Bartendaz training as a CrossFit Central Coach...
Activities like this place high demands upon the proficiency of the 10 General Physical Skills. The CrossFit Journal Oct. 2002 states that "you are as fit as you are competent in each of these 10 skills. A regimen develops fitness to the extent that it improves each of these 10 skills.)
I would love to see some video responses from the crossfit community. Coaches and/or participants. Any takers...?
Activities like this place high demands upon the proficiency of the 10 General Physical Skills. The CrossFit Journal Oct. 2002 states that "you are as fit as you are competent in each of these 10 skills. A regimen develops fitness to the extent that it improves each of these 10 skills.)
I would love to see some video responses from the crossfit community. Coaches and/or participants. Any takers...?
Thursday, August 21, 2008
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Today is first day of the rest of your life... Start with 1 push up, 1 pull up, 1 sit up.
Barmasters Xtreme was started by Hassan Salaam to provide an opportunity for the most Xtreme exercise phenomenon taking hold in Harlem and around the Nation. He saw the competitive nature of some of the young and the old participants to engage in this exercise. These individuals were intent on displaying there talents in doing superhuman workouts without the assistance of weights. These participants were dedicated to keeping themselves fit, and in good natural order.
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Monday, August 18, 2008
Sunday, August 17, 2008
Gymnastics Applied to CrossFit
Saturday after the free Under the Bridge workout the coaches gathered back at the box while I put on a hour and a half seminar covering gymnastics as it applies to functional fitness and to the principles of CrossFit. Some of the techniques covered were things like spotting, forward rolls, handstand variations, cartwheels, and knee to elbow advancements. It was a very hands on seminar and everyone (well maybe not Zach...) was eager to get turned upsidedown. Here's some pics from this event.
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
BootCamp Social August 22nd at Imperia
Who: All LCRA bootcampers, friends, & family, any and all Crossfitters welcome!
What: BootCamp Social Gathering at Imperia
When: Friday August 22nd 5:30pm
Where: Imperia 310 Colorado St Austin, TX 78701
Why: Because we are building a fit COMMUNITY! We sweat together- now lets sit back have some sushi and a drink together!
What: BootCamp Social Gathering at Imperia
When: Friday August 22nd 5:30pm
Where: Imperia 310 Colorado St Austin, TX 78701
Why: Because we are building a fit COMMUNITY! We sweat together- now lets sit back have some sushi and a drink together!
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
Strength and Balance are BFFs
Strength and balance are just two of the ten recgonized physical skills that work together to create the well rounded athlete. The importance of thse skills can not be stressed enough.
Final 4 Weeks- Spartans Stay Strong!!
Only 4 weeks Left!
It doesn't matter what your current physical condition is or whether or not you're knowledgeable in health and fitness. This program can meet you where you're at physically. If you're already in great shape you can always be in better shape...this program will rock your world and be alot of fun. If you're not...guess what...you're going to come out of this a Champion and better because of it!!!
It doesn't matter what your current physical condition is or whether or not you're knowledgeable in health and fitness. This program can meet you where you're at physically. If you're already in great shape you can always be in better shape...this program will rock your world and be alot of fun. If you're not...guess what...you're going to come out of this a Champion and better because of it!!!
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
Randal now has his CrossFit Gymnastic Cert.!
On August 2-3rd I was in Ft. Worth at CrossFit GSX http://gsxcrossfit.blogspot.com/
to participate in a functional fitness based gymnastic certification. Here are some pics from that adventure. More info. to come on this....!
to participate in a functional fitness based gymnastic certification. Here are some pics from that adventure. More info. to come on this....!
In the Paper
Those who know me are probably aware of my love of the circus arts (i.e. acrobatic yoga, indo boards, juggling, and hooping, ect...)then it should be no suprise to see that I was pictured in the Austin Statesman yesterday. Here is the link to that article.
http://www.austin360.com/recreation/content/recreation/stories/2008/08/0804fitcity.html
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