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CrossFit Protocol

1111 Central Pkwy SW, Decatur, United States
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CrossFit Protocol is a strength and conditioning facility in Decatur, AL.  
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www.crossfitprotocol.com CrossFit is a core strength and conditioning program. We have designed our program to elicit as broad an adaptational response as possible. CrossFit is not a specialized fitness program but a deliberate attempt to optimize physical competence in each of ten recognized fitness domains. They are Cardiovascular and Respiratory endurance, Stamina, Strength, Flexibility, Power, Speed, Coordination, Agility, Balance, and Accuracy.
The CrossFit Program was developed to enhance an individual’s competency at all physical tasks. Our athletes are trained to perform successfully at multiple, diverse, and randomized physical challenges. This fitness is demanded of military and police personnel, firefighters, and many sports requiring total or complete physical prowess. CrossFit has proven effective in these arenas.


Aside from the breadth or totality of fitness the CrossFit Program seeks, our program is distinctive, if not unique, in its focus on maximizing neuroendocrine response, developing power, cross-training with multiple training modalities, constant training and practice with functional movements, and the development of successful diet strategies.

Our athletes are trained at short, middle, and long distances guaranteeing exposure and competency in each of the three main metabolic pathways. We train our athletes in gymnastics from rudimentary to advanced movements garnering great capacity at controlling the body both dynamically and statically while maximizing strength to weight ratio and flexibility. We also place a heavy emphasis on Olympic Weightlifting having seen this sport’s unique ability to develop an athletes’ explosive power, control of external objects, and mastery of critical motor recruitment patterns. And finally we encourage and assist our athletes to explore a variety of sports as a vehicle to express and apply their fitness.


In gyms and health clubs throughout the world the typical workout consists of isolation movements and extended aerobic sessions. The fitness community from trainers to the magazines has the exercising public believing that lateral raises, curls, leg extensions, sit-ups and the like combined with 20-40 minute stints on the stationary bike or treadmill are going to lead to some kind of great fitness. Well, at CrossFit we work exclusively with compound movements and shorter high intensity cardiovascular sessions. We’ve replaced the lateral raise with push-press, the curl with pull-ups, and the leg extension with squats. For every long distance effort our athletes will do five or six at short distance. Why? Because compound or functional movements and high intensity or anaerobic cardio is radically more effective at eliciting nearly any desired fitness result. Startlingly, this is not a matter of opinion but solid irrefutable scientific fact and yet the marginally effective old ways persist and are nearly universal. Our approach is consistent with what is practiced in elite training programs associated with major university athletic teams and professional sports. CrossFit endeavors to bring state-of-the-art coaching techniques to the general public and athlete who haven’t access to current technologies, research, and coaching methods.
Is This For Me?

Absolutely! Your needs and the Olympic athlete’s differ by degree not kind. Increased power, strength, cardiovascular and respiratory endurance, flexibility, stamina, coordination, agility, balance, and coordination are each important to the world’s best athletes and to our grandparents. The amazing truth is that the very same methods that elicit optimal response in the Olympic or professional athlete will optimize the same response in the elderly. Of course, we can’t load your grandmother with the same squatting weight that we’d assign an Olympic skier, but they both need to squat. In fact, squatting is essential to maintaining functional independence and improving fitness. Squatting is just one example of a movement that is universally valuable and essential yet rarely taught to any but the most advanced of athletes. This is a tragedy. Through painstakingly thorough coaching and incremental load assignment CrossFit has been able to teach anyone who can care for themselves to perform safely and with maximum efficacy the same movements typically utilized by professional coaches in elite and certainly exclusive environments.

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Meet Jill! Jill Bachman shares her CrossFit story, saying "I now know that CrossFit is for everyone, all ages and all levels. The people love you for who you are, not how much you can do or lift! Everyone knows you have to start somewhere and at CrossFit Protocol you won’t stay there long. You will get better at everything they put in front of you!" Visit this link to read her story: https://crossfitprotocol.com/meet-jill/ www.crossfitprotocol.com

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Be flexible in the pursuit of your goals. www.crossfitprotocol.com

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5 guidelines for stretching: 🚶‍♂️🏃‍♂️🕺Warm-up before you perform any stretching exercises. Do not stretch cold muscles. 🧐👁️👀Focus on the target muscle involved in the stretch. Relax the target muscle, and minimize the movement of the rest of your body. Do not tense up or contract the muscle being stretched. ⌚⏱️🕰️Hold stretching exercises for 10 to 60 seconds. Do not bounce into or out of the stretch. 🙂🤨😐Stretch to the limit of movement. Do not stretch to the point of pain. 🧘‍♀️🧘‍♂️☮️Breath slowly and rhythmically throughout the stretch. Do not hold your breath at any point during the stretch.

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The 5 week Protocol Open was a great success! Our athletes accomplished amazing things but more than that they had fun with their fitness family. Here’s a look at some of the faces of the Open. 📷 😁👋🏻 www.crossfitprotocol.com

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Need 5 Hot Takes and 1 Solid Tip after this years CrossFit Open? I've got you covered! Take a peak inside for some greatness! https://crossfitprotocol.com/dont-stop-thinking-about-the-open/

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FAITH RXD Decatur, AL will be hosting the WOD this Friday along with many other FAITH RXD chapters around the world. FREE FOR VISITORS SO PLEASE INVITE SOMEONE Passion WOD for Good Friday: 100 Double Unders 800M Barbell Carry (95/65) 100 Burpees ———————— The workout was designed to help remind athletes of the pain and suffering Jesus experienced that day when He laid down His life in an act of sacrificial love for the human race. The double unders remind us of the lashings he received for us. The barbell carry is symbolic of him carrying the cross and taking the weight of our sin upon himself. The burpees signify him conquering death by rising again. Make plans to be there at one of our classes! 5:00AM, 8:15 AM, 11:30 AM, 3:15PM, 4:15 PM, 5:15PM Caleb Farrow Adam Hill Justin Barnes Hedy Pickering Josh Drake Laura Walker Cannon Michael James Scottie Hubbard #faithrxd #faithrxddecatur

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