Welcome to In2 Crossfit London
You’ll do pull ups, push ups, squats and sit-ups. You’ll use kettlebells, olympic lifting bars, gymnastics rings, pull up bars, medicine balls and plyometric boxes. You’ll run, sprint, row. And more. You will have fun.
The first thing we need to master is your bodyweight. Once body weight is mastered we can start introducing the fundamentals of weight lifting; the squat, press and deadlift. This is not just about muscle development, these exercises transfer directly into everyday life. Do you doubt it? When you stand up from sitting on the sofa, is that not a squat? When you pick your child up from the ground is that not a deadlift? When you put your shopping on the top shelf of the cupboard is it not simply a press? We perform these exercises millions of times throughout our lives so we need to be strong in them. We need to train the body in the way it is designed to move.
INTENSITY. Anyone that goes to the gym is trying to achieve an endocrine response.
In simple terms a hormonal change in the body which can include muscle growth, weight loss, insulin production and an increase in energy levels. The bigger the change you desire the higher the intensity you need to train at. So once you are able to perform movements safely we ramp up that intensity and start getting serious results.
Against the clock. Time is short in our lives and with CrossFit many sessions are against the clock. It is a great motivator and it gives us the chance to compete against each other and satisfy our competitive spirit. There is no better motivator than if your friend has set a time to beat earlier in the day!! Or even better join a group session and compete against everybody in the group! Everything can be scaled; we have seen a 50 year old lady and a navy diver competing in the same workout, a little tweaking of the exercises is all it takes. Everything we do is scalable so it does not matter the level of fitness you have, anybody can get a great workout.
What you won’t get at In2 CrossFit.
Training in the “fat burning zone”. What is this zone we hear so much about? Newsflash! If you want to lose weight, eat right and work hard.
Isolation exercises are another no no. The body is not designed to move a load using only one muscle at a time. Why bicep curl when you can pull up? Use more muscles in the same amount of time, twice the results in half the time. Simple!
Weight loss and muscle growth are not the aim, they are a bi-product.
