CrossFit Kelowna, located at 111-2955 Acland Road, is holding its Grand Opening Event on Saturday, 21 February 2009, from 2:00 to 4:00 pm. This is your chance to find out all about CrossFit and how it’s been implemented at the CrossFit Kelowna Fitness Academy. Give it a try, or see it in action. CrossFit will be serving healthy snacks and drinks and sharing information on how you can achieve your fitness goals.

Now… onto my next article.

People will fail at the margins of their experience. Not quite verbatim but this is what Coach Glassman, founder of CrossFit, says all the time. Basically what it means is that if you only train your strengths, hoping that everything goes according to plan, you will fail when the poo hits the fan and your weakness is exploited.

This is true in all aspects of life. In business if you suck at sales, you hate doing cold calls, talking to people is not your thing, so you spend all your time working on your product, then your business will fail because you will have no one to buy it. You’re great at math, so you spend all your time working on math, then you fail English Lit., Sociology and History, and don’t finish your degree.

In fitness maybe you’re a great runner, so all you do is run. You hate lifting weights because you’re weak (from all that running…). You have to move your couch across the room and throw your back out. You have failed.

Do not focus on your strengths. Focus on your weaknesses, train them until they are no longer a weakness, and then find your new weakness. Before long you will have no weaknesses. You will be proficient in all areas of fitness. When you need to run you can run, when you need to lift you can lift, when you need to climb, jump, throw you can do so with great efficacy.

As far as fitness goes, CrossFit training trains all aspects of fitness, specifically to address these weaknesses. Try to apply that thinking to all aspects of your life. And remember, attitude is everything. Whether you think you can or you think you can’t… you’re right.

CrossFit is a strength and conditioning program built on ever changing, functional movements done at high intensity. If it doesn’t make you better at life or sport, we don’t do it.

Our program utilizes natural human movement making it extremely potent, and also infinitely scaleable. Everyone can do these movements to some degree. It’s how we are built.

Chris Walls is CrossFit Trainer at the CrossFit Kelowna Fitness Academy. For more information on CrossFit, please visit http://www.crossfitkelowna.com.