About

CrossFit is a challenging, fun, community-driven Fitness Program for nearly EVERYONE, regardless of age or current Fitness ability.  CrossFit Hampton Roads provides World Class Strength and Conditioning Coaching in a fun, motivational, ego-free environment.  Our goal is to help our athletes optimize Health, Wellness and Fitness. We use a variety of functional movement combined into a very well-planned program of fun, challenging and intense workouts to achieve remarkable gains in fitness.

Functional Movements:  This is what makes CrossFit truly applicable to everyone regardless of age or current fitness level.  A few examples of functional movements are the Squat, Push Press and Deadlift. Here are some characteristics of a Functional Movement as defined by CrossFit:

• Essential to Independent Living: such as the ability to get up out of a chair without assistance or strain after the age of 60,  or picking up your kids/grandkids.
• Safe: Functional movements are remarkably safe–especially when compared to non-functional movements (the majority of machines you find at a standard gym).
• Core to Extremity:  Functional Movements begin with a strong core.  The movement then transfers energy to the extremities
• Can Move Large Loads a Long Distance, Quickly.  “Work” is measured by the amount of Force applied over a distance (W=F*D).  Power is how much Work you do in a given time (P=W/T).  You move more weight faster with a functional movement that you do with a non-functional movement. This applies to everyday life:  carrying groceries from the car to the house, shoveling mulch, or keeping up with the kids.

Intensity:  Intensity in the right doses and at an appropriate level for your Fitness abilities helps yield remarkable results.  If your performance in the gym improves through a healthy exposure to intensity in the right doses, then your performance in everyday life (real world applications) will also improve.  We get RESULTS with a well-developed program of workouts independently devised by our incredibly experienced staff.  We do not blindly choose workouts…first and foremost we program our workouts FOR HEALTH and LONGEVITY.

Constantly Varied:  CrossFit’s Specialty is NOT SPECIALIZING.  People are good at what they like to do, but are usually not as good at the things they don’t like to do.  You never know what life will throw at you.  It may be picking groceries up from the floor one minute, then walking upstairs with kids hanging from your legs, then putting a heavy box up on a shelf. Variance in physical training prepares you for a multitude of physical contingencies and makes the training FUN!  CrossFit incorporates elements of Weightlifting (such as Clean, Deadlift, etc.), Gymnastics (pushup, pullup, dips) and traditional cardio (running, rowing, jump rope, etc..) in varied patterns to achieve stunning Fitness.