We understand how Pilates and Crossfit complement each other’s benefits to practitioners, let’s talk a little bit about flexibility.
Flexibility is tested through articulation, which creates some confusion in the literature. For example, the flexibility of the hamstring muscles can be referred to as the range of motion in hip flexion or knee extension, because the muscles cross two joints.
Relating flexibility to a muscle that does not cross the joint does not allow the differentiation of which component is causing the limits.
Some factors hinder the acceptance of this definition, such as the use of the term passive mobility and the fact that the authors do not characterize which other tissues would restrict flexibility.
Therefore, other means of training flexibility, such as Pilates, are emerging as new options to be studied, tested, and proven. This method gets its name because of its creator, Joseph Hubertus Pilates.
The first practitioners of the method were athletes, dancers, and dancers.
Pilates is becoming an effective treatment for rehabilitation and fitness. The Pilates method aims to improve the body’s flexibility and physical fitness by strengthening the power center (Power House), improving posture and coordination of breathing with movement.
On the other hand, Crossfit aims to forge a broad, general and inclusive physical conditioning, seeking to create a program that would better prepare practitioners to face any physical challenge; prepare them for both the unknown and the unknown.
The training model was created in 1995 by Greg Glassman.
The prescription of Crossfit exercises is of constantly varied and high-intensity functional movements, believing that sports preparation for random physical challenges is at variance with physical, predictable, and routine regimens.
The Crossfit program is not a specialized fitness program, but an intentional attempt to improve the physical competence of each human being in one of the various fitness domains:
- Cardiovascular and Respiratory Resistance
- Muscle Endurance
- Force
- Flexibility
- Wattage
- velocity
- Coordination
- Agility
- balance
- Precision