CrossFit Alpha Dog - Lombard

The technical definition of CrossFit is constantly varied functional movement performed at high intensity. A CrossFit workout can have any combination of Olympic weightlifting, gymnastics, sprinting, or plyometrics.  No two days are ever the same, routine is the enemy. True fitness is being prepared for anything life may throw at you . Training for the unknown, and unknowable, has made CrossFit the preferred training system for Military, Fire, and Police agencies around the world. If a training program can be so effective for unknown modal and time domains, than the potential for a sport where time and demands are known is even greater.

"Routine is the enemy," say the trainers at CrossFit Alpha Dog, whose students never see the same workout twice. Since the body adjusts to repetitive workouts, the team keeps it guessing by mixing up exercises with unpredictable combinations of organic movements, sprinting, plyometrics, and gymnastics. These workouts are designed to improve functional strength-practical muscle power that head trainer Tommy Moon calls upon during his firefighting career and that students may need when carrying an injured person to safety or a healthy person to a salad bar. The gym itself reflects this functional approach. Gymnastic rings dangle from webbings of monkey bars, and a wide-open space offers ample room for lunges, sprints, and push-ups.