re: Can someone explain to me exactly what crossfit is?

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So is It circuit training? What would I gave to do at the gym tomorrow to be "doing crossfit"?

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See this kind of goes back to my earlier comment on the importance of a good gym/trainer. A lot of bad trainers just turn it into basically circuit training every day. But "true" and "good" CrossFit should be constantly varied. We have some days where we only work on strength, some days where we work on skills and movements, some days where we do conditioning workouts of various lengths and for various goals in mind. If you're at a CrossFit gym that throws a metcon on the board everyday and that's the WOD, you need to find a new place to workout

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What would I gave to do at the gym tomorrow to be "doing crossfit"?

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here's what the biggest gym in NOLA did today

Warm up:5 min AMRAP(as many reps as possible in allotted time)
Run 100m
10 Wall Squats
10 Roll-ups

Mobility (would be some type of stretching, usually pertaining to movements later in the workout)

Strength/Skill:
Tempo Overhead Squats
2 sec down, 2 sec pause, 2 sec up
Warm-up with 1 set of 5 with empty bar, 1 set of 5 at moderate weight, then
3 work sets of 5, slightly heavier than last week

WOD:(workout of the day..generally ends each class)

12 min EMOM (every minute, on the minute, you do the exercises below. Rest during down time)

Even - 8 Unbroken Thrusters (100/65#)
Odd - 8 Toes-To-Bar/Roll-ups
Cashout: 1/2 Tabata Burpee (2 min of :20 work with :10 rest)

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Tigerfan56

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Lester Earl

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Thank you for your responses. It was exactly what I was looking for.

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Because he failed on a snatch attempt and landed on a stack of plates behind him. Yea, blame crossfit. You dumb brah.

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Yea can't blame Crossfit.

Nothing wrong with attempting 3-rep "touch and go" snatch followed by a "3-position clean and jerk" and finally a 2-rep max back squat after, mind you, running three miles, carrying two 53-pound kettlebells for the first, one kettlebell for the second, and finishing the last unweighted.

Ogar completed the entire run in just under 30 minutes. His CNS probably wasn't fried or anything after that run and he was in perfect condition to attempt OL's.

Keep on Crossfitting brah.

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Nothing wrong with attempting 3-rep "touch and go" snatch followed by a "3-position clean and jerk" and finally a 2-rep max back squat after, mind you, running three miles, carrying two 53-pound kettlebells for the first, one kettlebell for the second, and finishing the last unweighted. Ogar completed the entire run in just under 30 minutes. His CNS probably wasn't fried or anything after that run and he was in perfect condition to attempt OL's.

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Amen