Potens Crossfit Launch, Hyderabad

Potens Crossfit

Stress, time constraints, ready availability of unhealthy food and lack of trained fitness professionals leave many Indians frustrated in their desire to lead fit, healthy lives. Nowhere is that frustration more prevalent than among the Hyderabadis who face limited healthy food choices combined with little opportunity for exercise.

Recognizing the challenges faced by today's Hyderabadis, Potens Fitness Solutions launched Crossfit Potens, a Crossfit affiliate, to help them take steps to lead healthier lives. Crossfit is a vigorous workout that combines weight training, aerobics and gymnastics all in one so that you become fit in every area of your game - not just one. The goal is to be functionally fit: push every aspect of your body to the max so that you're healthy, strong and in shape. Not just so you can lift a ton of weight or run a minute mile, but so you're fit to do anything that life throws at you - now or later.
"Preparing the body "not only for the known, but also the unknown is the mantra for CrossFit", says Kat, Coach at Crossfit Potens, an affiliate of CrossFit based at Hyderabad.

CrossFit was founded by former gymnast Greg Glassman, and the first CrossFit affiliated gym opened in Santa Cruz in 1995. CrossFit itself is a strength and conditioning fitness methodology that promotes broad and general overall physical fitness using a myriad of exercises more commonly found in the activities of weightlifting, sprinting, and gymnastics. These elements are mixed in numerous combinations to form prescribed "Workouts of the Day" or "WODs". Hour-long classes at affiliated gyms, or "boxes", typically include a warm-up, a skill development segment, the high-intensity WOD, and a period of individual or group stretching. Performance on each WOD is often scored and/or ranked to encourage competition and to track individual progress.CrossFit programming is used by 6,100 private affiliated gyms, including 7 in india, and by many fire departments, law enforcement agencies, and military organizations including the Royal Danish Life Guards, as well as by some U.S. and Canadian high school physical education teachers, high school and college sports teams, and the Miami Marlins.

Read on to find out why CrossFit is better than what you're doing at the gym right now.

Intensity In a gym, you do a round of bench presses, chat up and then ease your way through a light workout. However, Crossfit is a fast-paced, intense workout that can take less than 15 minutes a day because that quarter of an hour is going to be condensed, non-stop movement. It may only be three or four routines, such as burpees, a jog and squats, but the idea is that you keep doing each one over and over through the set time.

Reach your goals sooner The key to CrossFit is the intensity but hidden in that fact is that you're inherently pushing yourself to do the most you can through each exercise in the workout. Everyone wants results but not everyone puts in the effort. In a regular gym, it's easy to cheat reps here and there or sneak a longer break than necessary, but because of how the CrossFit workout is tailored, there's no option other than to max yourself out.
Effort is the key to any workout routine, and because you go balls to the wall in CrossFit, you reach your goals sooner.

Time duration of the workout If you don't have the time to spend an hour on the treadmill staring at the wall, the CrossFit Workouts of the Day (WODs) are what you need. One of the main benefits of CrossFit is that you can be finished in a matter of minutes - literally.

In a span of 15 or 20 minutes, you'll be asked to complete as many rounds of a specific circuit as you can. By the end of it, because of the aforementioned intensity and effort, you'll have burned more calories than you would have sleepwalking through a regular workout. It's faster and it's more effective. Those short on time will appreciate that aspect of CrossFit.

Community Often times a gym is just a collection of random people focused on doing their own different exercises. At a CrossFit box, which is what we refer to as our gym, it's community.For starters, CrossFit is about competing against yourself and not others. In fact, since the exercises are done in group workouts, the others often encourage you and help you push your boundaries unlike anything you've previously seen in a gym.
Even the person who finishes last gets a round of high-fives for pushing themselves as hard as they can. Everyone has the same goal in mind: to get in the best shape possible. Because of that, everyone is on the same team and working to the same goals. The camaraderie in CrossFit is part of what makes the exercise experience so unique.

Personal Training One of the most important components of a CrossFit box are the certified instructors. You didn't think you were doing these intense workouts on your own, did you? CrossFit instructors are specialized to not only teach and motivate but to guide you through the workouts and help modify them around your game.

Form and posture are quite important going in and they are going to make sure you're on point. If you've been thinking about getting a personal trainer, your CrossFit membership basically has one included.