CROSSFIT LEVEL 1 SET A 103
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Define CrossFit? - answer Constantly varied, high-intensity, functional movement
Characteristics of Functional Movements - answer Natural
Universal Recruitment patterns
Essential
Safe
Compound yet irreducible
Core to extremity
High power producing
What is the most important characteristic of functional movements? - answer Capacity to move
large loads over long distances, and to do so quickly. (Load, distance, and speed)
What is Neuroendocrine Adaptation? - answer a change in the body that affects you either
neurologically or hormonally. (rate coding/firing rate, etc. and release of Test/HGH/IGF-1)
Define Work? - answer using a force to move an object a distance. Application of Force
Equation for Work - answer w = f x d; work = force x distance
Define Power? - answer The time rate of doing work.
Equation of Power - answer Power= work/time or Power = (Force x Distance)/Time
, Define Intensity? - answer Intensity is defined exactly as power. (Intensity and Power are
proportionately related)
What is the relationship between intensity and results? - answer Intensity is the independent
variable most commonly associated with maximizing the rate of return of favorable adaptation
to exercise.
(Intensity brings results)
Define Variance? - answer Variance = unknown and unknowable. The CrossFit model offers a
wide variance of mode, exercise, metabolic pathways, rest, intensity, sets, and reps.
Define GPP - answer A broad foundation of fitness that can be converted and applied
throughout a wide range of task (10 physical skills of fitness
Articulate the difference between specialization and CrossFit - answer Specialization is getting
good at one thing. CrossFit is the opposite of specialization it is being well rounded.
Falling at the margins of your experience and variance in CrossFit - answer If you only are good
at what you experience (if you do a lot of strength work you will be good at strength). Variance
in CrossFit will expand your "experience" to make you well rounded (Strength, power,
endurance, etc.)
CrossFit's Definition of Fitness - answer Work capacity across broad time and modal domains
(ability to perform various physical tasks at different durations and intensities.)
Crossfit's Definition of Health - answer (pg 38 graph)The ability to sustain fitness. (Holding your
work capacity for as long as you can...age wise) It is the 3D graph of Power on Y axis, duration of
X axis, and age on Z axis
Explain the relationship between fitness and health. - answer Health and fitness are
interrelated. In order to be healthy you need to be fit. Being too physically fit will make you
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