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Crossfit involves workouts that are very intense, and they can be highly fatiguing, especially if they involve Olympic lifting. As such, within a typical Crossfit program, planning sprint training at an appropriate time point can be challenging. With sprint training, it is important to remember that it is a very central nervous system (CNS) intense activity. Sprinting at near to maximum capacity, whilst not always fatiguing in the energy system sense, will fatigue the CNS. Here are proven speed training tips that Crossfit athletes should include in their program.

Intensity is the trademark of Crossfit, but it is the intensity combined with “rabid empiricism and obsessiveness about the measurement of results.” CrossFit focuses on real world assessments of performance under intensity that can be “clocked, counted, or put on a scale.”

Ignoring the rise of popularity of CrossFit is impossible now that thousands of gyms, or what is referred as boxes are all over the world. What started out in Washington fourteen years ago is now a major factor in group exercise, and many similarities to general preparation training in sport and CrossFit. You don't have to be an elite athlete or even CrossFit participant to learn how to add Freelap timing to your training.