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Call us at 562.427.9597 or send an email to info@crossfit360.com to schedule a private introductory class, and we'll hook you up! Check out the testimonials video on our youtube channel to see what you're getting into!
Class times are as follows:
Long Beach:
Monday: 530 am, 11 am, 5 pm, 6 pm
Tuesday: 530 am, 9 am, 6 pm, 7 pm
Wednesday: 530 am, 11 am, 5 pm, 6 pm
Thursday: 530 am, 9 am, 6 pm, 7 pm
Friday: 9 am, 11 am
Saturday: 10 am
Tustin:
Monday: 12 pm, 6 pm, 7 pm
Tuesday: 7 pm
Wednesday: 12 pm, 6 pm, 7 pm
Thursday: 7 pm
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Frequently Asked Questions
- Ask Away! What's Crossfit? Can you do it? How do you get started? If a tree falls in the woods and no one hears it, does it make a sound? Are you doing what you were meant to do in life? The answers to all (well, most) of your questions!
- 1. These workouts sound gnarly and impossible. Do you have to be an Olympic athlete do to Crossfit?
- a. No! All Crossfit workouts are scalable. Can’t do pullups? We have an alternative. Can’t deadlift 385#? Don’t worry- start with 10#, and if you stick with it, you’ll watch your strength grow exponentially. Coaches are more than willing to work with you to adapt the day’s WOD to challenge you at a level you can handle.
- 2. Speaking of WOD’s, what’s a WOD?
- a. You’ll find Crossfit has its own lingo. The WOD is the Workout of the Day, which changes daily. Some days are single modality (one type of exercise, e.g. lifting or cardio), others are dual modality (e.g. cardio and body weight (“gymnastic”) exercises or lifting), while still others are triple modality (cardiovascular, gymnastic, and lifting). WODs are typically for time, for rounds, or for weight, meaning: for time- pretty self explanatory, the WOD will say something like “Five rounds for time of…”; for rounds- as many rounds as you can complete in a given time period; for weight- again, self explanatory- you’re going for the heaviest weight you can lift safely and successfully.
- 3. Does everybody do everything in unison, like step-aerobics?
- a. Nope. You’re pushing yourself at your own pace- trying to be as fast as you can, or complete as many rounds as you can. You’ll still be working out with other people in class, but they may finish before or after you.
- 4. But what if I finish last?
- a. So what? You did it right? DFL>DNF>DNS. Odds are that you are going to be last at some point, whether it’s because you are having a bad day or what we are doing that day isn’t your strong suit. But the point is, you came in, you tried, and you put yourself out there (rather than staying home and eating doughnuts). You’ll find that everyone who Crossfits has respect for anyone else who does- it doesn’t matter if it takes you 5 minutes or half an hour to do something- we’re all in this together.
- 5. What the heck does DFL>DNF>DNS mean?
- a. Dead F*cking Last beats Did Not Finish beats Did Not Start. It’s the Crossfit360 motto.
- 6. Who does Crossfit? Am I going to fit in, or will I be the only (female, male, over 40, LE officer, firefighter, overweight, underweight, superfit, unfit, good-looking, bad-looking, insert adjective of your choice) person there?
- a. Everybody can do Crossfit- we get people from all walks of life (seriously). Some of us are superfit, some of us have set a goal to become superfit, and some of us just want to not suck at life, as they say over at Crossfit One World in northern California. We have men, women, police officers, students, older adults, overweight people, underweight people, and people from all walks of life and backgrounds- some are former or current athletes, while some have never played sports. And hey- everyone at our gym is good-looking!
- 7. How does this fit with Krav Maga and Thai Boxing?
- a. Crossfit is a great compliment to our other programs because it emphasizes explosive power, in addition to 10 other components of fitness. Chances are, if you either elect to put yourself in the ring or find yourself in a street fight, you’ll be doing something very intense for a relatively short duration. That is Crossfit! For example, a police officer frequently won’t chase a suspect for 10 miles. So why train to run 10 miles? Why not train to run 2 miles FAST? Real life doesn’t involve bicep curls (well, unless you live in a frat house), elliptical machines, and giving your leg muscles a day off every other day. So why would you exercise that way?
- 8. Why do you have rest days/skill days/make up day? What’s the reason for that?
- a. One of the recommended Crossfit splits is 5 on, 2 off, which is the split we use at our gym. We realize that because of work, life, interpretive dance classes, etc. that you might miss a work out on a weekday, or that 5 on, 2 off might not work for you for other reasons. Since we predict you’ll turn into a workout junkie, you’ll be disappointed when you miss a WOD. So the Saturday class is the day we give you to make up a missed workout the previous week. Don’t feel like it, but still want to come in on a Saturday? That’s OK- make it a skill day, and use it to focus on a weak area, like running, pullups, muscle-ups, handstand pushups, you name it. Practice a few dozen of those, plus your warm up, and there’s your workout. We find that the exercises that are tougher for people to execute don’t come up often enough to allow people to focus on them, and when you’re doing the WOD for time, it’s often hard to also focus on learning.
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9 comments:
Adrianna "mini murph" 28:46
Efren RXD 36:15
Ken RXD 43:05
Robb RXD Ran out of time
71:00 70/165/230
Great work everyone. If you havn't done Murph already there are still two classes left in the day!
Alex RXD 41:15
Lisa "mini murph" 26:18
Sean RXD 55:58
Kyle RXD 45:19
Jeremy RXD 42:15
Angela RXD 55:08
Linda "mini murph" 41:40
Christina RXD 49:40
Mustafa RXD 54:13
Elena "mini murph" 40:30
Sarah RXD 47:37
Aaron RXD 43:55
Steven RXD 39:51
I love Murph. Don't get me wrong: I loves the ladies - you can give me some Fran, Helen, a little Angie and a whole lot of Kimmie (and who doesn't love Kimmie?), but Murph is my road dog. Looks impossible, but he brings you in for the finish every time!
I'm pretty sure I screwed up and did an extra block of squats (25), pullups (15) and pushups (33). I don't care: it's not like Murph is going to, say, rip up my palms or anything for doing extra. (That's funny: I don't remember using red paint this morning. Is that tomato juice? Hmmm ....)
WAIT! WAIT! WAIT! Steven: did you use the 1st group timer for my Murph time or the 2d group? Remember, I started with Elena, and I know that I started my final mile before she was done. Also, Christina was about 1.5 laps ahead of me (appx. 5 minutes) when 2d group started, she finished about 1.5 laps ahead of me (and there's no way I spent 10 minutes running 800m) and Aaron (3d group) started about 5 minutes behind 2d group. The math suggests that I was robbed by about 5 minutes. I knew my time had to be faster than 54 min.! So I didn't do an extra block after all (because that was the only thing that would make sense of the slower time otherwise).
I felt I was sailing through this WOD, and I felt faster, doing big blocks quickly, snapping out the squats (instead of plodding them) and running the entire final mile (which is where I usually lose time by "not running"). Sooooo ... I think somebody owes me about 5 minutes on that time. >:-(
(What would this blog be if I didn't raise these all important issues everyday???)
HA! I knew it! Well, having contemplated the existence of possible nay-sayers, I lugged my Xfit a$$ back to the 7pm session to prove my hypothesis: that fish were rotten in Denmark this morning, or shooting barrels in a kettle of monkeys ... whatever it is they say. (Although I have no doubt that it was a completely honest error.)
Unlike this morning, I struggled a bit with the exercises, and again I ran the whole time during the miles. What did I get? 50:17! Ain't no way I did TWO Murphs in one day and beat my first time by no fo' minutes! Gimme my #*@@amned 5 min.! (Um ... because I can trade it for valuable prizes??? Yeah ...)
But don't be thinkin' y'all can get two WODs a day by jackin' me on time in the morning: a brutha sho 'nuff gots ta be CRAZY to do that!
Holy crap, Mustafa...
Good job guys!!!
Jason H 50:48
Deeanna 53:51
Harry 1:01:36
Chrisley 1:04:48 ap
Cesar 1:11:23
Tom 58:06
Julie got hurt during pullups but was hauling a**!!!
7pm
John 1:09:08
Alison 40:38
Jay 25:20 without the runs
Moose 50:17
Matt 44:53
John 1:09:08
Alison 40:38
Jay 25:20
Moose 50:17
Matt 44:53
7pm group is so good we each did Murph 2x... and at the exact same pace for the second round.
So Mustafa, that makes 3 Murphs for you.
"But don't be thinkin' y'all can get two WODs a day by jackin' me on time in the morning"
Umm, yeah... pretty sure Steven did just that, and it was brilliant on his part. Must be trying to push you harder for the qualifier.
.matt.
Carmen mini murph 37:32
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