Functional Fitness. Everyone these days is peddling it, but what does it really mean? Functional fitness is actually relative to the athlete. A football player needs to run fast, hit hard, and dodge quickly. The Average Joe needs to be able to pick up heavy luggage without hurting his back. The 80-yr old grandma may just want to get up out of her chair with ease.

Functional fitness for CrossFitters involve movements that translate to natural everyday needs (picking up heavy objects, putting boxes on shelves, etc). It’s about moving LARGE LOADS, LONG DISTANCES QUICKLY.

With this understanding, where do you think bicep curls fall into the scheme of functional fitness? IT DOESN’T. Building beach muscles makes you big. Period. Deadlifting twice your body weight makes you STRONG. Snatching your body weight and more makes you a Bad Mother F-er. Throw in some running and gymnastics based movements and you become FIT as F*CK as CrossFit One World’s shirts tout.

WOD 08.26.09

CrossFit Total
Back Squat
Shoulder Press
Deadlift

3 attempts at each lift. Deadlift must be returned and NOT dropped from the top. Post loads to comments.