About Us
Bringing the Sport of CrossFit to Bude
What is CrossFit?
Technically, CrossFit was born in 2000, but one could say its roots were planted years earlier, when founder Greg Glassman was a teenage gymnast. Like many other teenage athletes, Glassman wanted to be stronger. He discovered that through the use of dumbbells and a barbell, he could get stronger than any other gymnast he knew who was working with bodyweight only.
In many ways, that question lies at the heart of CrossFit training. The program’s “jack of all trades, master of none” approach defines the strategy it uses to achieve fitness.
Glassman’s early athletic experiences directly influenced CrossFit’s goal of achieving “greater work capacity across broad time and modal domains.” In CrossFit’s view, the goal is not to achieve specialized abilities and fitness that applies to one particular set of movements. The goal is general physical preparedness.
The CrossFit ethos holds that adherents train to enhance 10 key physical qualities:
Cardiovascular/Respiratory Endurance
Stamina
Strength
Flexibility
Power
Speed
Coordination
Agility
Balance
Accuracy
Why CrossFit?
In gyms and health clubs throughout the world the typical workout consists of isolation movements and extended aerobic sessions. The fitness community from trainers to the magazines has the exercising public believing that lateral raises, curls, leg extensions, sit-ups and the like combined with 20-40 minute stints on the stationary bike or treadmill are going to lead to some kind of great fitness. Well, at CrossFit we work exclusively with compound movements and shorter high intensity cardiovascular sessions. We’ve replaced the lateral raise with push press, the curl with pull-ups, and the leg extension with squats.
Many professional and elite athletes are participating in the CrossFit Program.
Prize-fighters, cyclists, surfers, skiers, tennis players, triathletes and others competing at the highest levels are using the CrossFit approach to advance their core strength and conditioning, but that’s not all.
CrossFit has tested its methods on the sedentary, overweight, pathological, and elderly and found that these special populations met the same success as our stable of athletes.
- Courtesy of CrossFit, LLC
Bringing CrossFit to Bude
Box owner Jeremy found his love for CrossFit in 2016 when influenced by the incredible Athletes at the CrossFit Games.
Jez has grown up in the competitive world of swimming both participating and coaching and has always focused his efforts in ensuring his swimmers were working hard on land based training as well as training in the pool.
He is passionate in his coaching and believes in every single person who walks through the door, giving you the encouragement you need to succeed.
CrossFit Bude is very much a community and we work hard to ensure that everyone feels supported in their journey what ever their goal may be.
“CrossFit for me isn’t about being the fittest in the room, it’s about just ensuring I get my foot through the door and keep working as hard as I can every class.
I may not lift a barbell as heavy as the person next to me but I know one day I will ”
— Abi, CrossFit Bude member.