The most common emotion felt with CrossFit is FEAR. And FEAR is nothing more than:

F- False
E- Evidence
A- Appearing
R- Real

Our Essentials class is structured in a way where the fear is removed from the CrossFit image. CrossFit Michiana is for everyone and EVERYONE can accomplish their deepest goal when given the tools and opportunity to do so. And the Essentials classes are exactly that opportunity.

If you want to try our workouts on for yourself, you can start immediately. Go back to our Home Page and check out our daily Workouts. These will give you a good example of the style of our training and classes. However, be forewarned, these workouts can be very difficult without proper guidance and structure – here is an example of the guidance ans structure you'll receive during this 4 week course:

1. Learn the movements – many of the exercises that CrossFit includes in their workouts will be different from any you have done in the past. When you are learning a new movement, go light, reduce the repetitions and emphasize good form. Overdoing it in a new exercise is an easy way to get hurt. You will be amazed and how great you can feel after a workout with a 2 ounce plastic pvc pipe.

2. Each class builds upon the previous and you will learn how to start easy, get the best workout modified to your specific athletic level - split up a high repetition set into many low rep sets, reduce the weights, reduce the volume or distances.

3. Make the Workout Of the Day a habit. Three days on, one day off; or Five days on, two off. Consistency is the key, not so much intensity at first. Be consistant. You will see results faster than you can ever imagine if you stay consistant. This is a lifestyle and not a fad workout program.

4. After the first month of Essentials, which consists of 12 classes on Monday, Wednesday and Saturday, you can move into any one of the 5 daily CrossFit classes. Then the results really start to kick in! Then with the help of the coaches you will start increasing the intensity of your workout. Many people ask the question, “Is the Workout of the Day really all I need to do?” The answer is emphatically “YES” – that is, when you are able to complete it going as hard and fast as possible. Your goal is to attack every workout and tear it to shreds. It should CRUSH you!

This high intensity is part of the design of CrossFit and is required to get the full benefits. At these high intensities, your body will respond / recover with a very high neurological and endocrine (hormonal) adaptation (neuroendocrine response). This is the “secret” behind the ability of the Workout of the Day, in very often 20 minutes or less, to enable you to develop world-class fitness!

Each CrossFit Michiana Essentials 4 week course is $125.00. From there you have the option to become a CrossFit Michiana member or take what you learn and give it a try on your own. Either way your workouts will be better, more intense than ever before.

To reserve a spot for the next Essentials class, call us at (574) 262-3900. Or simply order here:

- Read "how to start".

- Download a free copy of the CrossFit Journal entitled what is fitness?

- Download a free copy of CrossFit Foundations

- Browse the CrossFit.com web site for gobs of information, especially on the message board.

CrossFit is the principal strength and conditioning program for many police academies and tactical operations teams, military special operations units, champion martial artists, and hundreds of other elite and professional athletes worldwide.

Our program delivers a fitness that is, by design, broad, general, and inclusive. Our specialty is not specializing. Combat, survival, many sports, and life reward this kind of fitness and, on average, punish the specialist.

The CrossFit program is designed for universal scalability making it the perfect application for any committed individual regardless of experience. We’ve used our same routines for elderly individuals with heart disease and cage fighters one month out from televised bouts. We scale load and intensity; we don’t change programs.


World-Class Fitness in 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.