About Abe City CrossFit

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Functional Fitness: CrossFit prepares you for any physical contingency. Workouts are constantly varied, and incorporate weightlifting, gymnastics, running, and more.

Guided by a Coach: CrossFit meets you where you’re at. Your coach will adjust the workouts to be appropriately challenging for you. As you learn what you’re able to do now, you’ll be rewarded with a new challenge to pursue next.

Fueled by Community: CrossFit gyms are not cookie-cutter franchises, but instead dynamic and varied independent businesses that bring the CrossFit methodology to their local community.

A CrossFit class is a one-hour group session led by a coach. A typical class looks like:

• Whiteboard brief — The group arrives and circles around a whiteboard or TV. The coach will talk through the workout, the movements within it, the intended stimulus, and ideas for scaling. 
• Warm-up — The coach will lead the class through a warm-up to prepare for the workout.
• Skill practice —The coach will lead the class through skill practice, typically related to the movements that appear later in the workout.
• Workout prep — Each person will get out the equipment necessary to do the workout, such as a barbell or rowing machine.
• Workout — The coach starts the clock and everyone does the workout together.
• Clean up — After the workout is over, athletes give each other fist bumps and wipe down / put away their equipment.

GYM-RELATED

• Box — A CrossFit gym.
• Affiliate — A CrossFit gym. CrossFit gyms are affiliated with the parent company CrossFit. They are not franchises but rather ‘affiliates.’

WORKOUT-RELATED

• WOD — Workout of the day
• AMRAP — As many reps/rounds as possible.
• EMOM — Every minute on the minute.
• Scale / modify — Adjust the movements or amount of work (repetitions) in a workout to make it appropriate for athletes’ physical needs and abilities. A coach’s job is to help their athletes adjust the workout appropriately.
• Rx’d = As prescribed. Many gyms will write the “Rx’d” version of the workout. By design, the Rx’d version is meant to challenge the fittest athletes at the gym. Most athletes will have to scale or modify the Rx’d workout to meet their needs.