Benefits of CrossFit For Overall Fitness

1. Building Cardio: The foundation of CrossFit training is Cardiovascular endurance. Your heart and lungs need to be healthy enough to support high-intensity exercise. So when starting CrossFit, the first thing that will be developed is increased cardio and muscular endurance. This significantly decreases the risk of cardiovascular and metabolic diseases.
2. Understand how to move your body with good form and technique: CrossFit pulls from gymnastics, calisthenics, and weight lifting. There are a wide variety of movements performed. To execute these movements safely, any athlete must first understand how to move well. One component of moving well also involves having sufficient mobility to get into certain positions. Oftentimes, new CrossFit athletes will develop mobility and technique long before they move at a high intensity.
3. Get Stronger: A key tenet of what CrossFit considers to be functional movement is the movement's ability to move a large load, a long distance, and quickly. Building strength is a key component of overall health. Lifting heavy weights helps build muscle, decrease body fat, and improve bone density and connective tissue.
4. Improve Mental Health: Exercise is the most effective treatment for improving mood and has been shown to create better long-term results than medications. Not only can exercise improve conditions like depression and anxiety buy improves cognitive function and reduces the risk for cognitive degenerative disorders like Alzheimer's. All these benefits are only enhanced by the group and community aspects of CrossFit; not to mention the sense of accomplishment CrossFit can give.
5. Reduce Fat: The training methodology of CrossFit plus the simple but effective nutrition guidelines that CrossFit sets can have incredible results for fat loss. Significant fat loss reduces the risk for all-cause mortality and can significantly improve quality of life.

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