CrossFit Active is the home of the CrossFit Method on Sydney’s North Shore. We train everyone from 80+-year-olds to elite athletes. Our training can be scaled to any level of fitness. Come join our community and get into shape.
Who We Are
CrossFit Active is led by a team of trainers brought together by the belief in the foundations of CrossFit. It’s our job to make you stronger, leaner, fitter and faster. We do this by applying the proven CrossFit method of “constantly varied, functional movement, executed at high intensity”. The results we see in our athletes are dramatic. We always promote an atmosphere of support and camaraderie at our facility, and find this a potent motivator in driving clients to achieve their goals.
What We Do
CrossFit is an empirically driven, clinically tested and community developed strength and conditioning program that seeks to elicit as broad as adaptation response as possible, utilising training formats derived from Gymnastics, Olympic Weightlifting, Sprinting and Combat disciplines. We focus on instructing the importance of proper movement through full ranges of motion and functional strength exercises. This produces what we believe to be a fitness level that is highly transferable to all athletic pursuits as well as daily functional physical tasks.
The CrossFit program delivers a fitness that is, by design, broad, general, and inclusive. Our specialty is not specialising. Our 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 men, women, children, elderly individuals with heart disease and professional rugby players.
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How We Do It
World Class Fitness in 100 words:
Eat meat and vegetables, nuts and seeds, some fruit, little starch and no sugar. Keep intake to levels that will support exercise but not body fat. Practice and train major lifts: deadlift, clean, squat, presses, C&J, and snatch. Similarly, master the basics of gymnastics: pull-ups, dips, rope climb, push-ups, sit-ups, presses to handstand, pirouettes, flips, splits, and holds. Bike, run, swim, row, etc, hard and fast.
Five or six days per week mix these elements in as many combinations and patterns as creativity will allow. Routine is the enemy. Keep workouts short and intense. Regularly learn and play new sports.
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Why We Do It
Here's some insight from Coach Glassman (CrossFit CEO) on the intent of CrossFit:
"CrossFit is in large part derived from several simple observations garnered through hanging out with athletes for thirty years and willingness, if not eagerness, to experiment coupled with a total disregard for conventional wisdom. Let me share some of the more formative of these observations:
- Gymnasts learn new sports faster than other athletes.
- Olympic lifters can apply more useful power to more activities than other athletes.
- Powerlifters are stronger than other athletes.
- Sprinters can match the cardiovascular performance of endurance athletes, even at extended efforts.
- Endurance athletes are woefully lacking in total physical capacity.
- With high carb diets you either get fat or weak.
- Bodybuilders can't punch, jump, run, or throw like athletes can.
- Segmenting training efforts delivers a segmented capacity.
- Optimizing physical capacity requires training at unsustainable intensities.
- The world's most successful athletes and coaches rely on exercise science the way deer hunters rely on the accordion."
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