About CrossFit

Workouts comprise a balance of 10 capacities: Strength, Speed, Power, Flexibility, Coordination, Endurance, Stamina, Accuracy, Agility, and Balance

Results are improved: Sports Performance, cardiorespiratory efficiency, Strength, Endurance, muscle tone, weight loss, and functional athleticism.

This is Broad, General, Inclusive fitness. CrossFit’s specialty is not specializing, it is fitness that will prepare you for any and all eventualities.

CrossFit is a fun & affordable program to get into amazing shape under the constant guidance of a professional trainer. CrossFit workouts consist of weightlifting, cardio and body weight exercises. Our high intensity workouts will challenge you like never before and feed your competitive side while sharing in the camaraderie of your fellow fitness fanatics. Our clients love it! Know that we have people of all ages shapes and sizes in our gym and we scale the workouts according to experience and ability level. Whether you are a Granny or a Super Stud don't be scared and come to your first class free to find out how it will change life like so many before you.

CrossFit Avalanche was founded by Myles Lewis and Travis Weaver in 2009. Their passion is to spread legitimate fitness to the Tahoe Athlete. Most locals have a love for some or all of the recreation that our environment has to offer whether it be skiing, snowboarding, Nordic, cycling, mountain biking, running, hiking, paddling, etc... CrossFit is a tool to increase the athletic performance for any and all sports.

In summary CrossFit is an all encompassing training program consisting of a wide variety of exercises executed at high intensity. We lift weights, do gymnastic bodyweight exercises and run, row or jump rope for cardio. The combination of resistance training and cardio are extremely effective for getting in better physical shape.

In more technical terms: (from CrossFit.com main site)

What is CrossFit?
CrossFit is the principal strength and conditioning program for many police academies and tactical operations teams, military special operations units, champion martial artists, world class skiers and hundreds of other elite and professional athletes worldwide.

Our program delivers a fitness that is, by design, broad, general, and inclusive. Our specialty is not specializing. Combat, survival, many sports, and life reward this kind of fitness and, on average, punish the specialist.

The CrossFit program is designed for universal scalability making it the perfect application for any committed individual regardless of experience. We’ve used our same routines for elderly individuals with heart disease and cage fighters one month out from televised bouts. We scale load and intensity; we don’t change programs.

The needs of Olympic athletes and our grandparents differ by degree not kind. Our terrorist hunters, skiers, mountain bike riders and housewives have found their best fitness from the same regimen.

Thousands of athletes worldwide have followed our workouts posted daily on CrossFit.com and distinguished themselves in combat, the streets, the ring, stadiums, gyms, homes and Ski resorts.

Check out www.CrossFit .com to find out more.

If you really want to learn the in depth aspects of training and CrossFit check out the CrossFit Journal.