By Coach Jurney Poland

One dictionary definition of endurance is “The ability, or strength, to continue or last, especially despite physical fatigue, stress, or adverse conditions; stamina.” Sounds like every WOD. You endure and survive them. Wouldn’t it be fun to do more than “survive” and look forward to the long ones?

Brian McKenzie’s CrossFit Endurance (CFE) model provides a way to improve your stamina without having to log hours and hours on a bike, in a pool, on the rower, or on foot. The whole premise is to achieve the benefits of improved endurance and speed, while decreasing the time, the miles, and the risk of injury involved in traditional LSD training. CFE combines WOD’s, improved skills (form and technique), and intervals, and defies the concept of a need to spend hours upon hours in any 1 discipline. CFE will help improve efficiency which will translate to more enjoyable running, and metcons.

Our new endurance classes may be for you whether you love running, or hate it. If you’re a fan, it will be more fun to improve running form and technique in a group. And if you loath it, it will be more fun to learn to like it with others. We will learn and practice skills and drills, do a little (or a lot of) jump-roping, and of course – what’s a CrossFit class if there aren’t fun WODs? Oh yes, and let’s not kid ourselves, they will be run-related and interval WODs. And, we can probably all agree that suffering and complaining about suffering are both more fun with others.