CFC is very happy to announce that we will soon be introducing a series of Advanced Plyometrics drills into our current training regimen.

Plyometrics can be traced to Russia approximately 40 years ago. Dr. Yuri Verkhoshansky is credited with creating the principle which at the time was known as “shock training.” While observing some Olympians, he realized that they had more strength and power coming out of a higher altitude landing when their muscles were stretched as opposed to a normal jump. This led to the creation of the two true plyometric exercises: depth jumps and depth drops. Since then, almost every exercise that involves some sort of jumping movement has been categorized as plyometric.

Over time, plyometric training increases the amount of force you can produce and therefore plyometrics are effective in making you more explosive. This leads to improved sports performance, a higher vertical leap, and faster sprinting times.

It is clear that everyone at CFC will benefit from the inclusion of a more advanced set of plyometric drills and skills; here is the glimpse at the first:

For those of you who trained with Jason and have been asking how he’s doing, he sent this email yesterday. We miss you, Jason!

“Matt and Pam,

How are you guys? Thanks for the email! I’m on pass this weekend and
looking at my email for the first time in 2 months. I had a postcard I
was going to send you guys but I left it in my personal bag when we
moved into my barracks and it got locked up and my drill sgt. wouldn’t
let me get it out.

Training’s been alright. I’ve got 4 weeks left in Basic and I’m
definitely ready to get out. Crossfit was good preparation but they
put us in holding at the reception battalion and then had really light
PT for the first few weeks so I feel like I lost a lot of the benefit.
I think the best thing I got out of doing Crossfit was mental because
no matter what we do I can always look back on a Crossfit workout and
think “well this sucks but it’s not as bad as Tabata This” and that
helps. The only thing we’ve done that compares to a Crossfit workout
on the pain scale was a relay race on the obstacle course and it
SUCKED. I was afraid I was going to be a heat casualty or something
for a while.

I looked at the website and don’t recognize many people in the
pictures anymore so it looks like business has been good. Things were
picking up pretty quickly when I left and I’m happy to see that hasn’t
slowed down.

Hopefully I’ll be able to get some workouts in when/if I get to come
home anytime soon, I don’t know about leave yet. Thanks for thinking
of me! I’ll write again when I get to check email again.

Jason”

5 A.M.?! Really? Rob and Lisa are the instigators of our 5 a.m. start time here at CF Champions and we wanted to thank them for it.

For the majority of Matt’s corporate career (6 years, give or take) he worked until midnight and our household accomodated that schedule. Early morning was 8 a.m. When the corporate world was done and CF Champions jumped from our side business to the whole focus we adjusted our life to an earlier start of 5:30 a.m. That brought in a wave of new folks who couldn’t work out in the evenings. In moving from our garage to our present location, we kept our times the same but added the free Saturday workouts. Muscle and Fitness ran an article on CrossFit, Rob read it and stopped by. Matt invited him to come to our Saturday workout. Rob said he would and that Saturday he and his wife, Lisa, came and trained. From the get-go they asked about an earlier start time of 5 a.m. 5 A.M.! We debated the pros and cons, grumped about getting up a half hour earlier, kicked ourselves because it’s only a half hour and finally told them we’d give it a go for a couple months and see how it went. If there wasn’t much interest we were going back to 5:30.
So much for not much interest. 5 a.m. is our fastest growing time slot.
Terry, Tim Sr., Tim Jr.,

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Nicole, Bill, Mandy, Jaime, and Monica

are all additions since bumping forward.  Several of our newest folks are educators who will be joining the 5 a.m. crowd in the coming weeks, too.  Not to mention the majority of folks just finishing the Elements this past week – Buddy, Sarah, Travis – are 5 a.m. folks with a new group starting this week! 

So…Thank you, Rob and Lisa!

Forget CrossFit.  We should get WiiFit!

CFC Athletes,

Due to the impending weather, CrossFit class and 1-On-1’s scheduled for Tuesday morning, 8-5-08, are cancelled.

We hope to be able to conduct CrossFit class and 1-On-1’s Tuesday afternoon, but we won’t know until tomorrow.

Please check this posting Tuesday to see if we will be open in the afternoon.

Thank you and please don’t hesitate to contact us with any questions.

Matt, Pam, Chris & Laura

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CROSSFIT CHAMPIONS WILL BE OPEN FOR ALL TRAINING TUESDAY AFTERNOON. SEE YOU THERE!