Last weekend I had the pleasure of spending two days with James aka OPT (optimum performance training) Fitzgerald taking one of his modules on his coaching cert program. The cert was focused on assessment in it’s many forms so I as a trainer/coach have better tools to track and measure a client’s progress and help avoid injuries along the way.
Over the past few years Crossfit has gone from strength to strength and you might have noticed how it’s principles and training methods have been adopted by many other gyms, trainers and sports teams. Crossfit will continue to grow world wide and I predict that the next twelve months will see a dramatic increase in not only the number of people that want to participate in functional training that delivers real results but it’s global awareness as people talk and share videos about it through social networking.
First off let me tell you that John Welbourne (former NFL linebacker) is big! Actually no, he’s really really big! On the first day of the cert I pulled into the car park of the hotel I was staying at right next to the crossfit facility that was hosting the Crossfit Football cert and noticed this huge guy wandering around with what looked like little dwarves – let’s face it everyone standing next to John looks like a dwarf. They were searching for the crossfit box which we eventually found.
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