Week 3: Any Age Any Body

CrossFit has grown with the idea, concepts, and training methods based around Greg Glassman the founder of CrossFit, Inc. in 2000.  Greg Glassman openedhis first box in 1995 in Santa Cruz, California.  Glassman creating a program that has helped mold the minds and bodies of the athletes of CrossFit all over the world.  Each athlete having their own individuality of what CrossFit means or what CrossFit has done for them.  This is the one true sport that everyone can do.  This is one of the reasons CrossFit has caught on in the past decade as everyone has their own style and desire on what they want to get out of doing CrossFit. 

While going to Denver, Colorado to get my level 1 certification to be a trainer; I learned this sport is truly for everyone.  This became apparent when the trainers of CrossFit box spoke about an athlete who was in their 70's doing CrossFit workouts, this individual who was older also had parkinson's disease.  To me all I could think about was how does someone in their 70's and with parkinson's do CrossFit workouts, it was simple by scaling the workouts to what that individual was able to do.  As I found out that athlete used a PVC pipe for their workouts and everyone saw progressions in that athletes functional body movement and physical capacity from when they first started.  This is a reason why CrossFit is for everyone and why there should be no excuses on why someone is not able to be active and live a somewhat healthy lifestyle.