If you are ready to give Crossfit a go and don't mind training in a group, hit this getting started button  and we will whizz you through to the official Crossfit London UK site at www.crossfitlondonuk.com

If, on the other hand, you want to work on a one-to-one basis with someone who will teach you the moves and support you personally, please read on.

There are many reasons why you may want to work with a personal trainer: it may be that you are nervous and need your confidence building up. It's equally possible that you are super-competitive and cannot stand the thought of being second rate in public. You could have scheduling problems, health issues, or just feel that's what you want to do.

If it helps you make up your mind, I have clients who are elite amateur sports people,  million-dollar executives, bodyguards, military personnel, housewives and house-husbands. I have people who train with me on a regular basis, I have people who pop along every six months to get something fixed, or learn something specific.

I train really fit people, and some overweight ill people 

I dont offer a travelling service (sorry) and all the "stuff" I'm going to talk about in this site are offered at

The Crossfit London  UK HQ and training venue is
Unit 9
Gales Gardens,
Bethnal Green,
London
E2 0EJ

(45 seconds from Bethnal Green Tube station)

www.crossfitlondonuk.com

 

What I am really offering you is the ability to transform your life, using these inspirational 100 words

"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".


This, in my mind, makes you "Crossfit" Even if you dont nail every aspect. Every step you take towards this goal makes you healthier and fitter.

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

My job is supercharge your fitness so you are ready for any challenge. I do this by teaching you really effective basic moves.

I will train you to deadlift, squat, press, Olympic weightlift, kettlebell, sprint, run, jump and row. You will master some basic, cool and achievable gymnastic skills. I will then get you to mix and match methods and protocols, and have loads of fun as you discover what high intensity means.


If you want to meet up for an initial session, hit this getting started button and book  a personal training session with me.

If you want to ask some questions, pleased drop me an email  at  andrew@crossfitlondonuk.com


THE CROSSFIT LONDON 
i-COURSE

 

Unit 9
Gales Gardens,
Bethnal Green,
London
E2 0EJ

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 £100 which includes a copy of the Elite Fitness Guide


28 March
18 April
23 May
27 June

TO GET TICKETS FOR THE ABOVE SESSIONS

hit the  getting started button  on the www.crossfitlondonuk.com site

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


 

   


Andrew Stemler 

is a Crossfit level 2 Certified trainer 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 obtained his' Crossfit certification in 2005, long before crossfit became the trendy fitness regime it is today.

Contact  andrew@crossfitlondonuk.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.


 

GET THE CROSSFIT LONDON RING TRAINING AND  MUSCLE-UP GUIDE

You can also get hold of the highly recommended

Crossfit London Ring Training guide

For free



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

 visit  www.crossfitlondonuk.com

 free  E copy

 


GET THE CROSSFIT LONDON KETTLEBELL TRAINING GUIDE

Not sure if Crossfit is for you, but still want to Kettlebell? Well the Crossfit London Kettlebell Training Guide could be for you.

 This is a fantastic free Ebook you can get  by visiting

www.crossfitlondonuk.com



 

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



 

 

(thanks to the Crossfit main site for this chart)

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