What is the CrossFit Community? ( an Insiders Look into the cult of fitness)

What is the CrossFit Community?
( an Insiders Look into the cult of fitness)

Okay.... so Before you continue reading I must be honest with you, as I am biased.

Besides why else would I have dropped everything in my life for it. CrossFit that is...So Reader Beware, you are reading the dribbles of a fairly big Fitness Enthusiast

So I am An Affiliate Owner, of a Local Gym Located in Holden Hill Called CrossFit Down Under. Established in January/ February 2012.

When I first began the CrossFit box the main mission was can I find enough other crazy people like me who love exercise, fitness and nutrition.

Little by little I found them and one day there I stood in awe...





......*loud barbell Drops in the background








In awe of what you may ask....

Well a community ... a community of people who all stood together for something in life, a community of independent individuals who all came together from different backgrounds, different circles, different walks of life to be united together by this thing, this stuff this exercise Program?

One of the things Cross Fitters find really hard to do is answer to you the question of what is crossfit?

Try it I dare you to ..

You will get one of 3 responses

a) Their head will explode because they haven't worked out how to say everything it is, it isn't and how it will make life better and how Fran sucks, how chalk makes everything better, and how thursters are so sexy and booty shorts, and Rich froning and the open, WOD/ Double unders/ Oly / Rx'd .....Head explodes   * I will come back to this.

b) The boring response... its a work out

Or c) Why don't you come try it..

Neither of these responses really justify what it is,

Because to this crazy little fitness movement there is something beyond the exercise and work outs and its that sense that you go somewhere for an hour or two or 3 of your day and be yourself with other people who also just Love this Fitness thing and want to embrace it as much as they can.

Don't be confused CrossFit isn't really all six packs, and muscle ups and weights so heavy that you feel tired just looking at.. the Truth is that crossfit is about a community of people who enjoy fitness,

Those people for the most part are just regular ordinary folks just like you and me *okay okay im not an ordinary person I get to do what I love every :-) * day! but

my point is that ....Drum Roll

CrossFit is about a Support System, team environment and a friendly place where we can all go and get better everyday not because we aren't awesome already. But because its way more fun to be challenged than to not be right?

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Vital Fitness Project Blog

CrossFit down Under

Fitness Blogger/ Coach/ Fitness Enthusiast  

Raul Valenzuela