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What is CrossFit?
CrossFit is the principal strength and conditioning program for many police academies and tactical operations teams, military special operations units, champion martial artists, and hundreds of other elite and professional athletes worldwide.
Our program delivers a fitness that is by design, broad, general, and inclusive. Our specialty is not specializing. Combat, survival, many sports, and life reward this kind of fitness and, on average, punish the specialist.
The CrossFit program is designed for universal scalability making it the perfect application for any committed individual regardless of experience. We’ve used our same routines for elderly individuals with heart disease and cage fighters one month out from televised bouts. We scale load and intensity; we don’t change programs.
The needs of Olympic athletes and our grandparents differ by degree not kind. Our terrorist hunters, skiers, mountain bike riders and housewives have found their best fitness from the same regimen.
Thousands of athletes worldwide have followed our workouts posted daily on this site and distinguished themselves in combat, the streets, the ring, stadiums, gyms and homes.
Intensity--The CrossFit Manifesto
Intensity is the CrossFit manifesto, its El Dorado, its Holy Grail. In CrossFit we are engaged in a constant quest for higher intensity. Intensity translates into results--faster times, heavier weights, more reps, greater fitness. Intensity is what separates us from all the other gyms. We have no machines, no mirrors, no cables, no chrome, no supplements, no gimmicks, no 7 minute ab routines. In short, no bullshit. We have intensity. We teach technique, stress proper form, write the workout on the wall, click the start button on the stopwatch, and set you free. And while you may not set any records, you are in the fight of your life. Each and every workout. Your heart will bounce off your ribcage, your muscles will betray you, your spirit will struggle, and afterwards, when you get off the floor--beat, tired, a smile on your face--you will have conquered. That is what we mean by intensity.
Welcome to CrossFit West Santa Cruz. We are serious, savage even, about our fitness. Real fitness. Functional fitness. Fitness that will make you stronger, faster, leaner, and healthier than you could dream of. You will also work harder than you ever dreamt you could and see results you never thought possible. Come check us out. You will either love it or hate it. If you love it, jump down the rabbit hole with us. If not, walk away, go back to your split routines, your body part days, your machines, always knowing in the back of your mind, that there is something out there that might be better and could change your life if you choose to accept the challenge.