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The 10 Personal Fitness Skills Every CrossFitter Should Aim For

CrossFit in Pittsburgh: The 10 Personal Fitness Skills Every CrossFitter Should Aim For

As a leading gym offering CrossFit in Pittsburgh, we make it a priority to ensure all of our clients get the best from their workouts. One of our biggest aims is to help you improve your General Physical Preparedness (GPP). Put simply, this means helping you to prepare for a number of physical challenges. CrossFit measures GPP against 10 General Physical Skills. In this article, we’ll take a look at those skills and how you can improve your stamina, strength, endurance and many other fitness skills.

What is CrossFit GPP?

General Physical Preparedness (GPP) is something that all CrossFit athletes have in varying amounts. Let’s say you’ve been attending our CrossFit in Pittsburgh classes for some time and we ask you to run a mile or back squat heavy. Compared to an athlete who only runs or who only squats, you’re going to have good ability in both. That’s because CrossFit gives you the best of all worlds, helping you to train and prepare for whatever might be thrown your way.

What Are the 10 CrossFit General Physical Skills?

1. Cardiovascular/respiratory endurance

CrossFit will help to increase your cardio and respiratory endurance, helping your body to gather, process and deliver oxygen more efficiently.

2. Stamina

This is your body’s ability to process, deliver, manage and utilize energy. CrossFit helps you to utilize your body’s fuel to push through those sets and beat your last PB.

3. Strength

CrossFit will, over time, help you to build muscle and strength. Just take it slow for consistent success.

4. Flexibility

CrossFit helps you to optimize flexibility and maximize the range of motion in your joints.

5. Power

Increase your power and apply maximum force throughout your workout.

6. Speed

CrossFit improves your speed and helps you to minimize the time cycle of a repeated movement.

7. Coordination

CrossFit helps you to improve your coordination and to move in a more fluid motion during your workouts.

8. Agility

When you need to transition quickly, you need to do so with speed and precision combined. CrossFit helps to improve your agility and minimize transition time from one movement to another.

9. Balance

Having good balance will help to develop your posture and ensure you stay on your feet. CrossFit helps to control the placement of your center of gravity.

10. Accuracy

The more accurate you are with your movements, the better results you will achieve. CrossFit helps you to move with accuracy in a given direction or at a given intensity.

Get There at Your Own Pace

When you start our CrossFit in Pittsburgh sessions, nobody will be expecting you to have perfected any of these skills. We help you to incorporate these skills into your training over time, ensuring you master them at your own pace. Our CrossFit sessions incorporate all of these skills seamlessly into your workouts, helping you to make consistent and steady improvement. What’s more, we measure your GPP as you go so that you have a good idea of the progress you are making.

The next time you are in your CrossFit class, challenge yourself to work on specific skills. Think about your strengths and weaknesses and when you have mastered one skill, move onto the next. We are always on hand to offer advice, support and analysis to help you to get more out of your CrossFit experience.

To find out more about our CrossFit classes and why we are one of the leading Crossfit gyms in Pittsburgh, get in touch with our team today.