"There is no better fitness programme for fire fighters or law enforcement."
M. Bender, 10 time winner of the "Toughest cop alive" competition
More and more, the physical needs of Police Officers are being recognized in scientific research. While physical contact is now infrequent, Officers are realizing that their training old-style training programs – usually jogging, bench pressing, and bodybuilding-style splits, where the body is broken up into muscle groups, not trained as a unit – aren't working. Biceps curls alone do nothing to move an irate drunk into the backseat.
CrossFit is the principal strength and conditioning program for many police academies and tactical operations teams, military special operations units, champion martial artists, 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.
"Trainers and civilians needs are more akin to the
firefighter, cop and soldier than they are to the elite athlete. The reason
being, you don't know what gameday will look like, you don't know when it will
occur and you don't know what the stressor will be, you just don't know."
– Coach Greg Glassman
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