CrossFit Longevity: Results

this has been my favorite series of videos. i love that people can make gains no matter where they are in there lives!

OUTSTANDING series! I'm in my 40's and have been CFing for almost four years. I would love to become level 1 certified and start working with the older population.

I'm a firm believer that 98% of the people who are in nursing homes are there because they didn't take care of themselves. Our culture dictates that everyone will eventually have to go into some form of assisted care living facility someday. Of course, it's also the same culture that thinks that skim milk, chicken breast, fruit, oats, and statins are the recipe for great health!

Keep the series up. We have it for kids, let's keep it for the older population, which keeps exploding.

Nice work John!

I really liked your warmup/agility drills.

I'm kind of stuck with the CFWU and would like to renew myself.
Would you mind posting it (or mailing it)?

The SEALFIT series is what i initally paid to watch for when i signed up on this site, but im thoroughly enjoying this series also. Its just good to know that we all wont be feeble and decrepit when we get older. I think Crossfit should get the Nobel Peace Prize for inspiring hope, not Obama lol!

Nice work John!!!

The written introductions to this series on working with "masters" contain more than a little condescension toward older Crossfitters, of which I am one. Is age the most important factor contributing to being scared when you first walk into a box? I have seen scores of younger prospects scared to death as newbies -- just like me, who started at age 51. I have introduced myself to scores of prospects, almost every one of them younger than me. Most never joined after their introductory period. Something scared these young ones away. I stayed, old man that I am and I am deadlifting 425.

I wish that you had not taken a deficit approach to older Crossfitters. You might have led with the maturity, confidence, and sense of purpose that some of us with a few grey hairs often display. I came to Crossfit with maybe average fitness and no background in athletics of any kind. I did not come in weak. My strength came from the fact that I wasn't pretending it was easy for me or that I didn't find the WODs scary as hell. I did. Nevertheless, at 51 I had overcome more than a few obstacles in my life. I had the experience to know that I had the will power, discipline, stubbornness, and balls to come back, try, finish last, curse, ask for help, and come back week after week until I got to the point where I could not not come back.

I do not think I could have overcome the embarrassment and exhaustion and disbelief I experienced as a new Crossfitter when I was a younger man with less confidence. I am certain that I could not have learned as much about myself from the experience (ongoing) of becoming a Crossfit athlete if I started in my 20s or 30s. Our box has some terrific 20-something and 30-something athletes. They amaze me but I don’t regret that I am not one of them.

We all come to Crossfit when we are ready and we come with different gifts, at any age. I have many weaknesses as a Crossfitter but believing for a minute that my age is a deficit alone -- as your article implies -- is not one of them. My years, as we masters know, are our strength.

Edward Gray
Colorado Springs
53 yo

Love this series! At 61, I have been CrossFitting nearly 3 years. Still seeing improvements, and expect to for years to come.

Keep plugging along. Great series.