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If you are daunted by Crossfit work-outs, here's the big secret.
Everyone is.

The key is to learn the fundamental moves first, and so we have designed the i-course, where we pretty much give you most of the essential skills to get you started.

THE CROSSFIT LONDON 
i-COURSE

East London Gymnastics Club
Frobisher Road, London E6

Learn to Olympic weightlift, kettlebell and master the "on your hands" elements of Crossfit, all in one day.
Only £78

Sunday 7 December 2008 
SOLD OUT

2009 DATES:

Sunday 25 January 2009
9.30 to 4.40pm

Sunday 1 March 2009
9.30am to 4.30pm

TO GET TICKETS FOR THE ABOVE SESSIONS
GO TO THE SHOP CLICK HERE

We offer a 15% discount to members of the police and our armed forces.
Drop Andrew Stemler an email if you wish to get a ticket with this discount Andrewstemler@aol.com

EVENT PHOTOGRAPHS

We tend to post a montage of event photos on our blog, but we post loads more on Andrew Stemler's facebook account.

If you want access these, facebook me and mention the Crossfit London site

Personal training sessions are available in the luxury surroundings of the
Andaz Hotel Gym, Liverpool Street, London EC2M
(Rates are £50 an hour)

Contact  andrewstemler@aol.com

But don't worry if that's too expensive, because you can go on an i-course.

 

Andrew Stemler 

is the only Crossfit level 2 Certified trainer in London and has many fitness and sports qualifications with leading bodies, including the Register of Exercise Professionals, BWLA (the British Weightlifting Association), the ASA (Amateur Swimming Association), the UKKA (the United Kingdom Kettlebell Association), UK Athletics, SABA (Schools Amateur Boxing Association), ABA (Amateur Boxing Association) and a wedge of martial arts certificates.

He has a degree in Law and Sociology, a post-grad in Property Management, and is currently studying sports science. He spent 3 years as a doorman in London's East End.

He tends to wear a neck scarf that most people think doesn't suit him.

Contact  andrewstemler@aol.com

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(TRAIN FOR HER MAJESTY'S
SECRET SERVICE)

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BUT WHAT IS CROSSFIT?

Here are the three guiding principles, or hallmarks, of our Gold Standard of Fitness

CrossFit Fitness Standard: ONE

There are ten recognised general physical skills. They are: cardiovascular/respiratory endurance, stamina, strength, flexibility, power, coordination, agility, balance, and accuracy. You are as fit as you are competent in each of these ten skills. A regime develops fitness to the extent that it improves each of these ten skills. Importantly, improvements in endurance, stamina, strength, and flexibility come about through training. Training refers to activity that improves performance through a measurable organic change in the body. By contrast improvements in coordination, agility, balance, and accuracy come about through practice. Practice refers to activity that improves performance through changes in the nervous system. Power and speed are adaptations of both training and practice.

CrossFit Fitness Standard: TWO

The essence of this model is the view that fitness is about performing well at any and every task imaginable. Picture a hat filled with an infinite number of physical challenges where no selective mechanism is operative, and being asked to perform feats randomly drawn from the hat. This model suggests that your fitness can be measured by your capacity to perform well at these tasks in relation to other individuals. The implication here is that fitness requires an ability to perform well at all tasks, even unfamiliar tasks, tasks combined in infinitely varying combinations. In practice this encourages the athlete to put aside any set notions of sets, rest periods, reps, exercises, order of exercises, routines, etc. Nature frequently provides largely unforeseeable challenges; train for that by striving to keep the training stimulus broad and constantly varied.

CrossFit Fitness Standard: THREE

There are three metabolic pathways that provide the energy for all human action. These "metabolic engines" are known as the phosphagen pathway, the glycolytic pathway, and the oxidative pathway. The first, the phosphagen, dominates the highest-powered activities, those that last less than about ten seconds. The second pathway, the glycolytic, dominates moderate-powered activities, those that last up to several minutes. The third pathway, the oxidative, dominates low-powered activities, those that last in excess of several minutes. Total fitness, the fitness that CrossFit promotes and develops, requires competency and training in each of these three pathways or engines. Balancing the effects of these three pathways largely determines the how and why of the metabolic conditioning or "cardio" that we do at CrossFit. Favoring one or two to the exclusion of the others and not recognizing the impact of excessive training in the oxidative pathway are arguably the two most common faults in fitness training.

As an over riding principle, Crossfit views the needs of an Olympic athlete and our grandparents as differing by degree not kind. One is looking for functional dominance the other for functional competence. Competence and dominance manifest through identical physiological mechanisms.

We scale load and intensity; we don't change programmes.