CrossFit is influencing the new training programs the Military is implementing to better physically prepare its troops. CrossFit Oldtown is proud to train the Army, Air Force, Navy, Coast Guard, and Marines at our Oldtown Alexandria CrossFit Facility.

 

The following documents serve to educate, provide testimony, and attract Military personnel to CrossFit Training. Alexandria CrossFit Training Takes Place in Our Oldtown location; Call 703-347-3931 for your introduction to CrossFit.

 

 

   

Educate:    

"The CrossFit Program was developed to enhance an individual’s competency at all physical tasks. Our athletes are trained to perform successfully at multiple, diverse, and randomized physical challenges. This fitness is demanded of military and police personnel, firefighters, and many sports requiring total or complete physical prowess. CrossFit has proven effective in these arenas."

CrossFit's Foundations: An overview of the CrossFit methodology and philosophy.

  

 

 

 

Educate, Testimony:   

"Marines are athletes. Their preparation for combat is not unlike a collegiate or professional athlete's preparation for his of her sport. There are some key differences of course. Marines do not know the exact game they will be playing and they do not know the climate for the game. They do not know the rules. Marines do not even know when they will be "playing." However, these factors only make preparation more difficult for combat as compared to preparing for a season of sports. Many of the unknown (and unknowable) factors reinforce an argument that Marines need a general purpose sort of fitness-a fitness that is based on the functions of combat operations."

 A Concept For Functional Fitness: United States Marine Corps Doctrine

 

 

 

 

Training Program:"The program is designed to be flexible and utilized while in garrison, the field, or deployed to austere environments with only common military equipment and readily available local resources (rocks and sand). The purpose of the nine-week program is to maintain or enhance combat fitness, while commercial equipment is not available during deployment or training."  

The AOFP CrossFit Austere Program

by Greg Glassman, Wade Rutland, JT Williams

 

 

 

 

Testimony:  

"The Army, Navy, Marine Corps and Air Force have come to recognize that as beneficial as running can be to overall fitness, health and military readiness, too much of a good thing causes injuries that leave troops less fit, less healthy and less ready…"

Military Playing Down Long Runs, Adopting More Diverse Fitness Programs