Maryland's home to Crossfit training and elite fitness based on equal parts gymnastics, sprinting, weight lifting and Olympic lifting. Our specialty is not specializing. Offering personal training, boot camps, and group workouts designed for the beginner to the elite athlete.  We advocate and develop a deliberately broad, general and inclusive fitness. Combat, survival, many sports, and life reward this kind of fitness. The needs of an Olympic athlete and a mother of three differ only by degree not kind. An athlete needs to squat to perform a sport, a mother needs to be able to squat to play with her kids. For years, you have probably trained like a body builder and ran like you were training for a marathon. Neither a body builder nor a marathon runner is truly fit. Many long distance runners have a vertical jump of only a few inches due, in part, from years of training long slow distances lacking any component of power development. If physical appearance concerns you, would you rather have the physique of a marathoner or a gymnast, a body builder or a 100-meter sprinter? The answer is clear, so why have we trained like body builders and marathon runners for all these years? At Crossfit Retribution we seek general, broad, and inclusive fitness. Nature and life punish a specialist.  This information is courtesy of the Crossfit Journal "What is Fitness" and "Foundations".  For more information see the Crossfit Journal link to the right of this page.  I encourage you to sign up and receive the Crossfit Journal, its the best fitness resource I have found and no I don't make a dime from it.