(or Why We Don’t Program “Murph" Every Day)

For today’s bite, let’s take on the elephant in the room: cardio.

The mainstream fitness prescription calls for spending hours and hours “burning calories” on the treadmill (or elliptical, or exercise bike, or whatever the cardio machine du jour happens to be.)

We do not like this. Here’s why.

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We’ll be celebrating July 4th with a traditional "Jacinto Storm". For those of you who don't know, Jacinto is an NYC CrossFit legend -- the fittest 74-year-old around! He turns 75 on July 3rd; we'll be completing his birthday WOD on the 4th!

Come spend an afternoon learning, training, and gaining confidence in the clean & jerk during this 2.5 hour intensive! Work side by side with athletes of all levels as the clean and jerk are broken down individually, and then put back together again!

Weights are fun, but do you know enough about just moving your body? Want to work on your handstand or muscle up? Starting the week of June 23rd, Monday's 5:30pm Level 2 class will be Gymnastics with Chazz!

This Saturday is our annual CrossFit Virtuosity Prom! To facilitate clean up (and recovery!), we'll be making the following slight schedule changes.

How do we know CrossFit improves fitness? There isn’t one definition of fitness, but we have some models that we use to define it and guide us in our quest to become more fit!

Let’s talk about The Hopper Model. Picture a hopper containing bingo balls, each of which has a different physical challenge written on it. This could be anything — a 5k run, a 1RM deadlift, shoveling a driveway, running with a 40lb suitcase through an airport to catch your flight — it’s unknown and unknowable what might come out.

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Stop by on Saturday, June 28th during any Level 2 class for our annual “Pride” WOD to celebrate NYC Pride! We’ll be donating $10 for each person who attends class to The Trevor Project — we hope you’re inspired to make your own donation as well!

When Team Virtuosity headed the North East Regionals, few thought they’d make it to the final podium. The team was seeded in 26th place and had never gone to the CrossFit Games before; Ariel told a class he taught a few days before Regionals that their goal was to make it to the top 10.

How do we know CrossFit improves fitness? There isn’t one definition of fitness, but we have some models that we use to define it and guide us in our quest to become more fit!

Let’s talk about the 10 Physical Skills. CrossFit uses these skills as a guide in measuring fitness: the person that has a balance of all these adaptations is the most fit.

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