Crossfit Kids
CrossFit Ocean Isle Beach is a certified CrossFit Kids program.
“Healthy living requires that our kids push, pull, run, throw, climb, lift, jump, effectively and safely regardless of whether or not they play athletics.” (www.CrossFitKids.com)
What is CrossFit OIB Kids?
CrossFit OIB Kids is CrossFit specifically designed for children and teenagers. While including scaled down versions of adult skill training and workouts, CrossFit Kids also focuses on fun to get kids excited about exercising. CFOIB Kids combines the ten components of fitness:
- Cardiovascular/respiratory endurance- The ability of body systems to gather, process, and deliver oxygen.
- Stamina – The ability of body systems to process, deliver, store, and utilize energy.
- Strength – The ability to apply force.
- Flexibility – The ability to maximize the range of motion at a given joint.
- Power – The ability to apply maximum force in minimum time.
- Speed – The ability to minimize the time cycle of a repeated movement.
- Coordination – The ability to combine several distinct movement patterns into a singular distinct movement.
- Agility – The ability to minimize transition time from one movement pattern to another.
- Balance – The ability to control the placement of the body’s center of gravity in relation to its support base.
- Accuracy – The ability to control movement in a given direction or at a given intensity.
Will my child be grouped in with others that are much older?
Just as in the school classroom or on the ball field, a younger athletes programming will vary greatly from a teen’s. That would be UNSAFE! A 7 year old would not be on the same football team as a 16 year old, the same rules apply here. CFOIB Kids provides a three tier class structure to ensure your young athlete is grouped age appropriately:
Buttercups Ages 4-6 (Mondays 4- 4:30pm)
Pups Ages 7-12 (After School Program on Tue/Thurs 3:30- 5:30pm)
Big Dawgs Ages 13-17 (on break until Spring)
Check out our CrossFit KIDS Blog for daily workouts and pictures!
How can CrossFit OIB Kids benefit my child?
CrossFit OIB Kids enhances a child’s motor skills by teaching better movement and cognitive skills through engaging children to think about their movement, count their reps, remember the sequences, and work towards goals. CrossFit Kids augments a child or teen’s involvement in sports by incorporating strength training and conditioning to make our CrossFit athletes better athletes at any sport.
In addition to increasing a child’s or teen’s fitness and athleticism, CrossFit OIB Kids:
- instills a lifelong definition of health and positive body image,
- reverses prevalent health issues such as obesity,
- protects against injury,
- creates a community of like-minded individuals for support and self-confidence, and
- hones life skills such as concentration, problem solving, perseverance, dedication, motivation, and goal-setting.
CrossFit OIB Kids is functional fitness designed to benefit our young athletes in sport and in life!
How will you run CrossFit OIB Kids classes?
Our job as coaches is to make exercise fun and to help children and teens move better–safer and more effectively–to prepare them for the rest of their lives. At least two certified, insured coaches will supervise and run kids classes. Classes are set up to include a warmup, skill work, workout, and game using the skills. This makes learning and exercise fun!
What can I do as a parent?
We encourage parents to support their children and the class, stay and spectate from the sidelines, cheer, participate in CrossFit adult classes, help their children maintain consistency in CrossFit attendance, and provide healthy meals at home and for school. Healthy meals consist of protein, carbohydrate, and fat at every meal. The tenets we follow are: lots of lean meat, vegetables, nuts, and seeds, some fruit, little starch, no sugar, and no grains. These foods are the optimal fuel for the most sophisticated machines: our bodies. We emphasize the importance of unprocessed, real foods in balanced proportions. For more information on the nutritional guidelines we follow, ask us about Paleo and Zone. Scientific studies and personal trial and error among ourselves and our athletes have found that these dietary choices make us feel good, improve our physical and mental performance, and enhance our physical and mental health. We also insist that parents of our underage athletes inform us of medical conditions and allergies that may impact a child’s health, performance, and capability.
Read more about the CrossFit Kids program: CrossFit Kids 101
Big Dawgs (Age 13- 17)
Exercises will include conditioning training such as rowing, running, jumping, pushing, pulling (gymnastic movements) and incorporating Olympic rings, paralettes, climbing ropes, as well as traditional bodyweight movements such as pull ups, push ups and handstand push ups. We also use alternative equipment like tires, sledgehammers, kettlebells, and agility training tools. We aim to teach your athletes correctly and safely how to squat, Deadlift, press overhead and perform Olympic lifts such as the clean & jerk and snatch; all of the movements that your youth athletes will be expected to perform on the collegiate training level.
Our dedicated coaches will educate your athletes about sports training, nutrition, camaraderie, and teamwork. Our coaches will motivate your athletes to ensure that when they have completed a session they walk away enhanced, improved and wanting to come back. The training provided will guarantee strength and fitness gains beyond expectations. We aim to do this by continually developing the 10 general physical skills; cardio-respiratory endurance, stamina, strength, flexibility, power, speed, agility, coordination, balance and accuracy. In addition to these skills, participants will also develop mental toughness and a new-found dedication to their sport.
OUR EXPECTATIONS:
Our coaches are passionate about providing the best service for all participants and in doing so we adhere to the following principles:
- RESPECT- for the coaches and all other participants. This includes respecting the training space and all the equipment; and
- COMMITMENT- to training and improvement. At CrossFit OIB we are not concerned with your starting level of fitness or strength, we care about commitment and dedication to improving those levels. DO WORK!
Pups (Age 7- 12)
How can Pups benefit my child?
CFOIB Pups enhances a child’s motor skills by teaching better movement and cognitive skills through engaging children to think about their movement, count their reps, remember the sequences, and work towards goals. Pups augments a child or teen’s involvement in sports by incorporating strength training and conditioning to make our CrossFit athletes better athletes at any sport.
In addition to increasing a child’s or teen’s fitness and athleticism, Pups:
- instills a lifelong definition of health and positive body image,
- reverses prevalent health issues such as obesity,
- protects against injury,
- creates a community of like-minded individuals for support and self-confidence, and
- hones life skills such as concentration, problem solving, perseverance, dedication, motivation, and goal-setting.
Pups is functional fitness designed to benefit our young athletes throughout their lives.
OUR EXPECTATIONS:
Our coaches are passionate about providing the best service for all participants and in doing so we adhere to the following principles:
- RESPECT- for the coaches and all other pups. This includes respecting the training space and all the equipment; and
- COMMITMENT- to learning and having fun! As always CrossFit OIB is notconcerned with your pup’s starting level of fitness or strength, we care about commitment and dedication to improving those levels. Above all else we want your Pup to want to participate. If he or she is not having fun then we will re-asses whether your child belongs in our Pups class.
Buttercups (Age 4-6)
How can Buttercups benefit my child?
CFOIB Buttercups enhances a child’s motor skills by teaching new & better movement and cognitive skills through engaging children to think about their movement, count their reps, remember the sequences, and work towards goals. Buttercups augments a child’s involvement in sports by incorporating strength training and conditioning to make our CrossFit athletes better athletes at any sport.
In addition to increasing a child’s fitness and athleticism, Buttercups:
- instills a lifelong definition of health and positive body image,
- reverses prevalent health issues such as obesity,
- protects against injury,
- creates a community of like-minded individuals for support and self-confidence, and
- hones life skills such as concentration, problem solving, perseverance, dedication, motivation, and goal-setting.
- builds confidence,
- learn that exercise is fun!
Buttercups is functional fitness designed to benefit our young athletes throughout their lives.
OUR EXPECTATIONS:
Our coaches are passionate about providing the best service for all participants and in doing so we adhere to the following principles for your Buttercups:
- HAVE FUN!
- LEARN NEW SKILLS!
- And HAVE MORE FUN!
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