Welcome to Granite City CrossFit

Granite City CrossFit is a combination of every exercise you can think of, mixed up daily so you never know what you are doing in order to shock your body to get fitter, stronger and leaner. It is an effective way to get healthy and anyone can do it.

When you come and train with us, no matter your current fitness level—from weak to average to elite athlete—we at Granite City CrossFit will make you better, stronger, faster, leaner and more confident. If you make the commitment to change, we will make the change happen.

At Granite City CrossFit we focus on:
1. Cardiovascular/respiratory endurance - The ability of body systems to gather, process, and deliver oxygen.
2. Stamina - The ability of body systems to process, deliver, store, and utilize energy.
3. Strength - The ability of a muscular unit, or combination of muscular units, to apply force.
4. Flexibility - the ability to maximize the range of motion at a given joint.
5. Power - The ability of a muscular unit, or combination of muscular units, to apply maximum force in minimum time.
6. Speed - The ability to minimize the time cycle of a repeated movement.
7. Coordination - The ability to combine several distinct movement patterns into a singular distinct movement.
8. Agility - The ability to minimize tranistion time from one movement pattern to another.
9. Balance - The ability to control the placement of the bodies center of gravity in relation to its support base.
10. Accuracy - The ability to control movement in a given direction or at a given intensity.
(Ed. - Thanks to Jim Crawley and Bruce Evans of Dynamax, http://www.medicineballs.com/)