This website is the one  that will get you into the best shape of your life . Its also the home of Crossfit London, a British-based affiliate of the unique American Crossfit System. (found at www.crossfit.com)

In 100 words, what we recommend can be summarised as

Eat meat and vegetables, nuts and seeds, some fruit, little starch and no sugar.
Keep intake to levels that will support exercise but not body fat.
Practice and train major lifts: Deadlift, clean, squat, presses, C&J, and snatch.
Similarly, master the basics of gymnastics: pull-ups, dips, rope climb, push-ups, sit-ups, presses to handstand, pirouettes, flips, splits, and holds.
Bike, run, swim, row, etc, hard and fast. Five or six days per week mix these elements in as many combinations and patterns as creativity will allow.
Routine is the enemy. Keep workouts short and intense.
Regularly learn and play new sports.

To learn more about Crossfit and our definition of fitness, read this

Our job is to liberate you from expensive gyms and incompetent trainers. We want you to get out into your garden, garage or local park and build yourself some real fitness. We don't care where you start from, because we will give you the skills and information you need to succeed.

We will train you to Olympic weightlift,  kettlebell, sprint, jump and row. You will master some basic, cool and achievable gymnastic skills - along with elements of  athletics and weight training. We will then get you to mix and match methods and protocols, and have loads of fun!

We will do this by giving information on this website, publishing "how to" e-guides, staging i-courses, offering personal teaching and arranging mini events and group workouts.

In the meantime, get on training with the Crossfit London Workout of the Day by Clicking here : cflondon.blogspot.com

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If you are daunted by Crossfit work-outs, here's the big secret.
Everyone is.

The key is to learn the fundamental moves first, and so we have designed the i-course, where we pretty much give you most of the essential skills to get you started.

THE CROSSFIT LONDON 
i-COURSE

East London Gymnastics Club

Frobisher Road, London E6

9.30 to 4.30 pm

Learn to Olympic weightlift, kettlebell and master the "on your hands" elements of Crossfit, all in one day.
Only £85


SUNDAY 13 SEPTEMBER 2009

SUNDAY 8 NOVEMBER 2009

SUNDAY 13 DECEMBER 2009

 

TO GET TICKETS FOR THE ABOVE SESSIONS
GO TO THE SHOP CLICK HERE

We offer a 15% discount to members of the police, first responders and our armed forces.

Drop Andrew Stemler an email if you wish to get a ticket with this discount Andrewstemler@aol.com

 

 

 

  

THE ELITE FITNESS MANUAL. £12.99

Do you want to learn how to clean and jerk, snatch and master the Crossfit nine fundamental moves? Do you fancy mastering the muscle-up, kettlebell skills and the handstand push up? Are you hunting for the nastiest abdominal training and methods that will blast your pull up, dip and push up numbers through the roof? If so, this is the  e-book for you. 85 pages of progressive drills and explanation are supported by 330 colour photos.

Well worth £12.99


 click here for your copy

The Elite fitness manual is the supporting text book for the i-course.

 

EVENT PHOTOGRAPHS

We post montages of event photos on our blog, but we post loads more on Andrew Stemler's facebook account.

If you want access these, facebook me and mention the Crossfit London site

 

PERSONAL TRAINING IN CROSSFIT

Crossfit London trains you to master challenging regimes and exercise skills.

Personal training sessions are available in the luxury surroundings of the
Andaz Hotel Gym, Liverpool Street, London EC2M
(Rates are £50 an hour)

Contact  andrewstemler@aol.com

But don't worry if that's too expensive, because you can go on an i-course

or you can " SLUM IT IN STRATFORD". Yes, for a measly £30 you can come and train in Andrew's back garden (even garden is too flashy a word, perhaps "hovel dwellers yard" would be more accurate). We have a full set of Olympic weights, 3m high ring trainer/ pull up tower, a full range of kettlebells, parallets, bench, rower and poor quality GDH.

 (Stratford is only 3 stops up from Liverpool Street on the central line).

 

REGULAR CLASSES

 

THE PRIMROSE HILL BODY WEIGHT SATURDAY CLASS

learn and practice Crossfit, at the adult playground in Primrose hill, 2pm every Saturday, where you will get 2 Crossfit trainers for the price of one, featuring Andrew Stemler and Simon Statman. All welcome. Drop andrew stemler an email if you intend to attend.

£7 drop in, £5 i-course graduates, £3 first responders ( police, military, fire service etc)

 

andrewstemler@aol.com

 DAILY CLASSES FROM MID SEPTEMBER

As from  mid September there will be daily Crossfit classes, led by Andrew Stemler, 6 minutes away from Liverpool street Station.

Keep an eye out for further announcements


 

 

Andrew Stemler 

is the only Crossfit level 2 Certified trainer in London and has many fitness and sports qualifications with leading bodies, including the Register of Exercise Professionals, BWLA (the British Weightlifting Association), the ASA (Amateur Swimming Association), the UKKA (the United Kingdom Kettlebell Association), UK Athletics, SABA (Schools Amateur Boxing Association), ABA (Amateur Boxing Association) and a wedge of martial arts certificates.

He has a degree in Law and Sociology, a post-grad in Property Management, and is currently studying sports science. He spent 3 years as a doorman in London's East End.

He tends to wear a neck scarf that most people think doesn't suit him.

Contact  andrewstemler@aol.com

BUY SOME  ELITE GYMNASTIC RINGS NOW!

No one will take you seriously if you do not incorporate elite rings into your training. They are one of the better training tools around ( and have been for many years) 



DANIEL CRAIG USES RINGS


We were delighted to discover that James Bond Star Daniel Craig has incorporated ring training into his training schedule and is close to mastering the Crucifix.

Rings were also used by the cast of  "300".

Elite Rings are used By Crossfit trainers like Andrew Stemler to build fantastic upper body strength

 Buy Elite Rings direct  from Crossfit London, for £54 (plus £8.65 special delivery p&p) normally sent out within 48 hours of you ordering

Click here

Comes free with  The Crossfit London Ring Training Guide

But, if you like buying stuff direct from America and waiting ages for it to arrive, click on the link below

BUY THEM DIRECT FROM THE US MANUFACTURER

The Elite Gymnastic Rings are portable and lightweight


BUY THE CROSSFIT LONDON MUSCLE-UP GUIDE

You can also get hold of the highly recommended
Crossfit London Ring Training guide
that helps you nail the muscle-up, a mere £3.50.

This is where Andrew Stemler shares  the secret assistance drills that gymnasts have developed over the last decade

 Click here to go to the shop and get your copy







BUY THE CROSSFIT LONDON KETTLEBELL TRAINING GUIDE

Are you  too mean to part with the price of  the Crossfit London Intro course, but still want to Kettlebell?  Well the Crossfit London Kettlebell Training Guide could be for you. Click here and for just  £3.51 you can get hold of the  E-book that takes you through the essential kettlebell skills: swing, snatch, clean, presses, windmill and Turkish get-up


 

For an overview of Crossfit methods, think about subscribing to the Crossfit Journal.




BUT WHAT IS CROSSFIT?

Here are the three guiding principles, or hallmarks, of our Gold Standard of Fitness

Crossfit London Hallmark of Elite Fitness




CrossFit Fitness Standard: ONE

There are ten recognised general physical skills. They are: cardiovascular/respiratory endurance, stamina, strength, flexibility, power, coordination, agility, balance, and accuracy. You are as fit as you are competent in each of these ten skills. A regime develops fitness to the extent that it improves each of these ten skills. Importantly, improvements in endurance, stamina, strength, and flexibility come about through training. Training refers to activity that improves performance through a measurable organic change in the body. By contrast improvements in coordination, agility, balance, and accuracy come about through practice. Practice refers to activity that improves performance through changes in the nervous system. Power and speed are adaptations of both training and practice.

CrossFit Fitness Standard: TWO

The essence of this model is the view that fitness is about performing well at any and every task imaginable. Picture a hat filled with an infinite number of physical challenges where no selective mechanism is operative, and being asked to perform feats randomly drawn from the hat. This model suggests that your fitness can be measured by your capacity to perform well at these tasks in relation to other individuals. The implication here is that fitness requires an ability to perform well at all tasks, even unfamiliar tasks, tasks combined in infinitely varying combinations. In practice this encourages the athlete to put aside any set notions of sets, rest periods, reps, exercises, order of exercises, routines, etc. Nature frequently provides largely unforeseeable challenges; train for that by striving to keep the training stimulus broad and constantly varied.

CrossFit Fitness Standard: THREE

There are three metabolic pathways that provide the energy for all human action. These "metabolic engines" are known as the phosphagen pathway, the glycolytic pathway, and the oxidative pathway. The first, the phosphagen, dominates the highest-powered activities, those that last less than about ten seconds. The second pathway, the glycolytic, dominates moderate-powered activities, those that last up to several minutes. The third pathway, the oxidative, dominates low-powered activities, those that last in excess of several minutes. Total fitness, the fitness that CrossFit promotes and develops, requires competency and training in each of these three pathways or engines. Balancing the effects of these three pathways largely determines the how and why of the metabolic conditioning or "cardio" that we do at CrossFit. Favoring one or two to the exclusion of the others and not recognizing the impact of excessive training in the oxidative pathway are arguably the two most common faults in fitness training.

As an over riding principle, Crossfit views the needs of an Olympic athlete and our grandparents as differing by degree not kind. One is looking for functional dominance the other for functional competence. Competence and dominance manifest through identical physiological mechanisms.

We scale load and intensity; we don't change programmes.

 


Crossfit. Forging Elite fitness