References

Glassman, G. (2007). Understanding CrossFit. Crossfit Journal, pp. 1-10.

Johnson, B. (2005). Bodyweight Exercises for Extraordinary Strength. New York, NY: IronMind             Enterprises.

McCall, P. (2010). What is Crossfit and is is Appropriate for the Average person. Retrieved           From

            http://www.acefitness.org/acefit/healthy-living-article/60/648/what-is-crossfit-training-      and-is-it/

Paine, M. J., Uptgraft, M. J., & Wylie, M. R. (2010). CrossFit Study. Command and General        Staff College, 1-34.

Sullivan, D. (2013). A Brief History of Crossfit. Retrieved From

            http://www.vpxsports.com/article-detail/industry-news/a-brief-history-of-crossfit

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Current Application

The significant level of growth for Crossfit has also subsequently extended to adaptations for use by a range of teams within the sports arena, at both college and high school levels (Paine et al, 2010). Currently, five varying adaptations of the concept exist forming a procedure known to the mainstream as the Crossfit method, which incorporates routines for use, by combat athletes kids, seniors and military personnel operating in the context of austere environments. Two additional programs “Elements of Crossfit” and “Boot Camp” also exist for application in gyms (Paine et al, 2010). The concept incorporates these programs to fulfill the aim of introducing beginners to Crossfit. The year 2007 saw the United States Marine Corps shift from the conventional nature of their training regimen, which involves routines such as distance running to Crossfit-oriented model. A significant majority of police, military, and fire departments in the United States and Canada are embracing the shift from conventional forms of physical fitness training programs by incorporating the Crossfit model into them. Having come a long way, the growth of this program has subsequently led to the creation of shifts that have proven effective in the arena of physical fitness (Paine et al., 2010). 

Operational Model

The year 2001 saw founder launch crossfit.com, the website with the aim of spreading the word concerning his program, thus igniting its availability in a number of cities across the United States and beyond. Currently the running of this program operates on both community and open source models, which have been significant in providing a crucial platform for the worldwide growth of this program (Glassman, 2007). A Significant majority of the program’s intellectual property owe their roots to the website. The program’s founder also went several steps further to engage in the formation of affiliate websites as part of his marketing plan, which he devised to effect increases in the level of popularity for the program. As opposed to the typical operational model of most internet marketing plans, Glassman’s marketing campaign provides room for diversity through the differentiation of websites to incorporate uniqueness and rejection of conventional franchise models (Glassman, 2007). This model also requires very little in terms start-up resources.

In Canada, the program receives widespread acclaim as one of the most popular and fastest growing health and fitness programs on a worldwide level. The uniqueness of this method also draws inspiration from its participation requirements, which do not require gym membership or attendance for participation eligibility (Glassman, 2007). One of the most notably negative factors about this program is its significantly higher dropout levels, which currently stand at eighty percent. Despite the presence of this alarming factor, Glassman still feels that the components he offers within this program are far better in comparison to the components that typical health and fitness clubs usually offer. He attributes the advantages of this program in terms of higher application rates and its unique preparation of individuals for a range of physical fitness challenges as vital aspects that place it at significant advantage over conventional fitness programs (Glassman, 2007).

Significant majorities of the workouts that this concept incorporates bear feminine names and receive widespread consideration as the standard workouts, having integrated the design and structure for testing and retesting the performance of participants, for the measurement of progress levels to their fitness (Johnson, 2005). The earlier list of feminine workouts is inclusive of names such as Elizabeth, Angie, Fran, Diane, Chelsea and Barbara. These names are representative of Glassman’s earlier forms of exercises referred to as the Crossfit breathers. On e of the main objectives for these workouts, receiving these names was to facilitate easy remembrance, as opposed to the burden of re-explaining every component each time an exercise received mention (Johnson, 2005). The year 2007 saw Crossfit its first competition called Crossfit games, which comprised of seventy athletes. The grand prize for the winner of this competition totaled five hundred dollars and by the year 2012, this competition had grown to incorporate around seventy thousand athletes, with the grand prize totaling to two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Crossfit has grown to exponential levels since its inception and has significantly influenced the fitness world to the level of movie starts and professional athletes constantly highlighting their love for it on television and social media (Johnson, 2005). This growth has subsequently extended to the making of a television show in the United States, called The Biggest Loser (Johnson, 2005).  

History and Evolution

 Although the concept of crossfit training is relatively new in the world of sport, its historical roots have traces from as far back as the 1990s. Through its founder Greg Glassman, the sport has ultimately evolved from simple roots to the implementation of conditioning and strength programs. The sport began with the opening of Glassman’s first gym within the locality of Santa Cruz California, where he earned a contract to train members of the Santa Cruz Police Department (Sullivan, 2013). Prior to this endeavor Greg Glassman had long held the desire for well-rounded athleticism and strength in his gymnastic activities. One of the major motivators for Glassman’s inspiration was a tendency that he noticed in a majority of athletes he encountered during the initial days of the sport. While a majority of athletes highlighted a considerable of expertise, their level of expertise only extended to a minimum of a single expert ability and a maximum of two expert abilities (Sullivan, 2013). The implication for this factor was that athletes highlighted a considerable level of lack in terms of general comprehensive fitness. These apparently expert levels of fitness had arrived with the athletes paying a dear price. This subsequently resulted in the “jack of all trades, master of none” procedure of methodology that commonly characterizes the concept of crossfit training. As opposed to maintaining a focus on single fitness adaptations like power or strength, crossfit training endeavors the achievement of greater levels of work capacity over a range of broader modal domains and periods (Sullivan, 2013). From another perspective, the workouts within the regimens of crossfit effectively punish the participant, with the aim of achieving broader and general levels of all-inclusive fitness. The procedure ultimately lays an emphasis on the attainment of ten vital physical fitness qualities. These qualities include stamina, strength, endurance cardiovascular and respiratory endurance, accuracy, balance, coordination agility flexibility and speed. These qualities draw their roots from Bruce Evans and Jim Crawley, the brains behind the manufacture of particular medicine balls called Dynamax. The development of these skills incorporates a range of movement routines from an array of various disciplines, with implementation adopting a significantly high intensity.The establishment of Crossfit as a company occurred in the year 2000. This establishment resulted in the evolution of a fitness community, which derives inspiration from the friendly nature of the competitions that the sport embraces in the fostering of camaraderie in small groups and the internet. Currently Crossfit covers the whole world through internet networks and comprises of around thirty four thousand affiliates. The revolution of this sport concept has resulted in collaborations occurring between crossfit embracers, who hold the commitment to the goal effecting improvements in their health, overall wellness and fitness levels. Right from its onset, this concept has maintained clear definitions and differentiations of it fitness ideologies through the creation of workouts that aim at eliciting feelings of association with competitive activities. A combination of this factor with a clarified emphasis on functionality in movement routines that aim at effecting improvements in the quality of fitness lifestyles has subsequently served as beneficial to millions of athletes, responders, military personnel and fighters in equal measure.

Crossfit Training

Overview
Crossfit training refers to an intense exercise regimen that features a range of dynamic exercises such as Olympic lifts and plyometric jumps. This regimen makes use non-conventional weight lifting materials like suspension systems, water-filled implements and sandbags among others and employs a structure that dynamically challenges participants to perform a particular number of repetitions within certain timeframes (McCall, 2010). Crossfit training at advanced levels involves competition between participants in an effort at determining completion rates for daily workouts. Based of the extreme intensity and its explosive effect on muscle action, crossfit training workouts have a range of benefits for both professional athletes and average exercise devotees, although these benefits also come with associated increases in the level of injury risk, especially if participants fail to follow the required procedure. Prior to embarking on a crossfit training regimen, there are requirements for participants to learn the correct performance of the required movements (McCall, 2010).

Famous Pianists

Scott Joplin

Joplin was an African-American composer and pianist. He has achieved his fame by his famous ragtime compositions, in fact, he was titled “The King of Ragtime.” He has written 44 original ragtime scores over his short career. Joplin was born in in Northeast Texas with a musical family of laborers. He developed his musical knowledge with the help of local teachers. He has formed a vocal quartet, and taught mandolin and guitar. At the late 1880s, he left his laborer with the railroad life and travelled around the American South as an itinerant musician.

Joplin was born into a musical family of laborers in Northeast Texas, and developed his musical knowledge with the help of local teachers, most notably Julius Weiss. Joplin grew up in Texarkana, where he formed a vocal quartet, and taught mandolin and guitar. During the late 1880s he left his job as a laborer with the railroad, and travelled around the American South as an itinerant musician. He went to Chicago for the World's Fair of 1893, which played a major part in making ragtime a national craze by 1897. Joplin’s skills as a piano player were described in glowing terms by a Sedalia newspaper in 1898, and other ragtime composers said that Scott played the piano well. But the son of the publisher said that Joplin was of a mediocre level and he composed on paper, not on the piano. There are no recordings of Joplin’s playing, all his scores were preserved on seven piano rolls that then were played by a mechanical piano.

Krystian Beirnstein

Krystian Zimerman was born n December 5th, 1956, is a Polish classical pianist who has been hailed as one of the finest living pianists. Zimerman studied at the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice under Andrzej Jasiński. He first started in 1975 when he won Warsaw International Chopin Piano Competition. He tours widely and made many albums. Zimerman has been teaching the piano at the Academy of Music in Basel since 1996 in Switzerland where he lives with his wife and 2 children. Krystian vowed, on April the 26th of 2009, to the audience at Los Angeles's Walt Disney Concert Hall that he is completely against the placement of a missile defense shield in Poland. He stated that he will not return to the United States of America until George W. Bush is out of office. Another part of his disenchantment with the US is their increase security at their airports, where more than once, his Steinway pianos were completely destroyed or damaged by security because of the smell of the glue used to glue the piano. Zimerman is an expert piano builder, and ever since these incidents, he decided to travel with unassembled piano pieces which he would put together after landing and going through security.