New respect for crossfit!
This morning my wife asked me to go to the gym with her. She's been telling me about the routines she's been doing with her trainer and to be real, I don't pay much attention. I'm just glad she found something she enjoys. What we wound up doing was a beginner crossfit ab routine. I like lifting weights and doing some cardio between exercises sometimes but man this was like cardio and lifting combined. I'm not really into it but I definitely gained a new respect for crossfitters! I made it through half the beginner routine with less grace than her. She's hardcore and I'm stinking proud of her!
New respect for crossfit!
T switched to crossfit and appears to love it.
Here's his log. Recent entries are crossfit and workouts look brutal.
Less is More Log
https://r.tapatalk.com/shareLink?sha...1&share_type=t
New respect for crossfit!
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Originally Posted by
BrockBadger
Some things that are sketchy. The diet plan that crossfit vocalizes is the opposite of what you want to do. For the volume of training they engage in you need more carbohydrates to perform your best. The Olympic weightlifting they do is not bad in and of itself however... With olympic lifting its demanding on the central nervous system. So much so in actual practice its 1 rep max, in the Olympics. However, they attempt to do 15+ reps sometimes of a lighter weight. Form and mechanics start to break down because of its demands. Then this is how injury can happen. They turn an elite type of lifting into a marathon. If you watch even in some of the games they do form does not seem to be the main focus, just getting the weight up any way they can, even risking injury. I suppose if your mechanics are superb you could train higher like six reps. And if the weight is so light your just jerking the weight around your going to get injured or waste your time without much quality adaptation. If your excellent at the mechanics then maybe it will suffice. However, this is really advanced and at some point even then there will be diminishing returns. For beginners which many are when they start crossfit this jerking of the weight around a light weight is maladaptive. This is only one reason why crossfit does not cut it at high performance.
While I get your point, comparing the Crossfit Games to the training done in boxes, is like comparing IPF worlds to my daily lifting routine. One is training, and the other is balls out testing at the top level.
If I were to try and emulate Taylor Atwood's performance at worlds in the gym, I'd end up hurt too.