Fitness in 100 Words

Eat meat and vegetables, nuts and seeds, some fruit, little starch and no sugar. Keep intake to levels that will support exercise but not body fat.

Practice and train major lifts: Deadlift, clean, squat, presses, C&J, and snatch. Similarly, master the basics of gymnastics: pull-ups, dips, rope climb, push-ups, sit-ups, presses to handstand, pirouettes, flips, splits, and holds. Bike, run, swim, row, etc, hard and fast.

Five or six days per week mix these elements in as many combinations and patterns as creativity will allow. Routine is the enemy. Keep workouts short and intense.

Regularly learn and play new sports.

— Greg Glassman

In 100 words, Greg Glassman, founder of CrossFit, defined fitness and provided an elegant solution to the world’s most vexing problem - chronic disease. Let’s break it down.

Eat Meat & Vegetables…

It’s interesting and telling that nutrition is the first thing stated in a prescription for fitness. Nutrition is the base the the fitness pyramid. It supports our movement, performance, health and mind. If your goal is fitness - be it for health and longevity or for sport, you must prioritize your nutrition. What does that look like? Whole, real foods - “Eat meat and vegetables, nuts and seeds, some fruit, little starch and no sugar.” And how much should you eat? “Keep intake to levels that will support exercise but not body fat.”

Practice and Train…

In CrossFit, we train major lifts, gymnastics i.e. body weight movements, and endurance. Each of these silos of movement provide functional use in daily life:

Deadlift - lifting an object from the ground

Squat - Standing from a seated position

Olympic Lifts - training explosive movement while under load (example: tossing a heavy bag of garbage into a dumpster)

Gymnastics - being able to move and lift your own body in space (examples: climb out of a pool or into a boat from the water, get off the floor, pull yourself up and over an object, jump, pivot.)

Endurance - building your cardio machine and your VO2 max is a proven data point for health and longevity.

We do these movements in a variety of combinations and time domains so as to avoid adapting to routine in order that our fitness is ready for whatever sport or life circumstance we may encounter.

Learn & Play New Sports…

Fitness should not be hoarded inside the gym. We can develop it in the gym SO THAT we can take it out into the world and pursue the activities and lifestyle that we desire. Go use your fitness - play pickleball, run a marathon, sign up for a powerlifting competition, join a rec basketball team, play with your kids, hike up a mountain, landscape your yard on your own. Go live MORE.

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In just 100 words, we have the prescription for fitness, health and longevity. Apply it. Do it. Live more.

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Want to learn more? Check out this article from the CrossFit Journal.

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