This is why you need Endurance in your programming

    What is CrossFit Endurance?

                       

CrossFit Endurance is a branch of CrossFit that deals with more endurance like activities, like long distance running, swimming, biking, and so on. Many people are drawn to CrossFit but don't want to give up their triathlons, marathons, or love for trial running. Although CrossFit does have an endurance component in it, it sometimes doesn't satisfy the people who enjoy doing more endurance activities. For them, CrossFit endurance programming is perfect.

However, many of the people who did endurance training before did it for hours on end every day. CrossFit endurance programming doesn't make you do hours on to top of hours of training, and they say this gives you even better results. Some of their training consists of choosing biking, running, rowing, swimming, and doing it for intervals or for a certain amount of time. Another day they will say for you to do a workout on the main page, which is a great way to mix it up. You could also choose to alternate between the main site workouts, and the endurance workouts to give you the blend you are looking for in your workouts.

Another great thing about endurance training is that it is great for your heart. A lot of doctors recommend this type of training to help fight cardiovascular disease. Keeping your heart healthy in old age, or even while you're young to help avoid problems when you are older, is a great idea. That is another reason a lot of people are drawn to more endurance activities as well, and that is if there parents or grandparents died of a heart condition.

Just like the CrossFit endurance types make fun of the really big strong guys, because they can't do anything for more than a few minutes without panting, the endurance types make the mistake of not strength training enough. Performing tons of endurance training is good, but you have to keep your joints healthy and maintain good strength. However, many endurance athletes don't take the time to strength train. You need some simple pieces of equipment to do some proper strength training to balance your body out. Make sure you own a kettlebell, a pair of adjustable dumbbells, and a barbell with some bumper plates. These simple items will start you off in the right direction to make sure you can keep enjoying your endurance activities, while still maintaining a healthy body.

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