We’ve long desired to offer a fitness competition consistent with our fitness model and have found the task fraught with difficulties.

We need a warm-up that will increase body temperature and heart rate, provide some stretching, stimulate the entire body and major biomechanical functions, provide practice for basic movements, and finally, prepare for rigorous athletic training.

Our recent work and acceptance in the law enforcement, tactical operations, and military special operations communities has been both extremely gratifying and very exciting.

In this 2003 interview Greg addresses some of the most common questions regarding the problems with fitness training and what he's doing about it.

The push-up, long a favorite among junior high school P.E. teachers and Marine Corps drill instructors, is for many more closely associated with punishment than anything else. Though common to group exercise programs, its use in serious strength and conditioning regimens is infrequent.

We found Hoover Ball when we were on the Internet looking for something more competitive and sporting for the medicine ball.

The needs of the elderly and professional athletes vary by degree, not kind. Where one needs functional competency to maintain independence, the other needs functional mastery to maintain dominance.

It is our aim in this issue to offer a model or template for our workout programming in the hope of elaborating on our concepts and potentially stimulating productive thought on the subject of exercise prescription generally and workout construction specifically.

Learning the progression of lifts that moves from the shoulder press to the push press to the push jerk has long been a staple of the CrossFit regimen.