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Inside the Cult of CrossFit
Adventure:
KM,
You are missing the point. CF is for the GENERAL PREPAREDNESS PROGRAM. Not skill training or sport specific training.
I do not know what you mean about Work Capacity, Hypertrophy, Ballistic Training. But is that apart of your conditioning?
Noload,
Yes, I have seen & heard that too.
I have a friend that has a Masters in Exercise & Physiology, also every cert CF offers. He just did the WODs to see if that would be enough to run a marathon. I believe he ran it in under 5hrs...not sure on that...can't remember, but he did finish.
whitewolf:
I spoke to the wfe of a instructor today -she instructs at a local gym outside Ft Campbell- in womens exersise program at the gym-her comment on CF is that it is to robotic and she has students come to her to do various workouts and she tells them that her program is more flexable and they sign up-i watched them work out today-pretty good-it was nice outside and they do some of the exersises in the parking lot of the gym. All the ladies today were Army dependents and pretty motivated to say the least. WW
Keith Miller:
--- Quote from: Adventure on February 15, 2012, 11:22:00 PM ---KM,
You are missing the point. CF is for the GENERAL PREPAREDNESS PROGRAM. Not skill training or sport specific training.
I do not know what you mean about Work Capacity, Hypertrophy, Ballistic Training. But is that apart of your conditioning?
--- End quote ---
You said "So who says we need periodization & if that make someone more fit then lets see them compete."
I say you need periodization if you want to compete. You don't do a GENERAL PREPAREDNESS PROGRAM to compete.
I train fighter every month to compete in MMA and Muay Thai competition.
We work to periodize their training so that they peak physically at the right moment with noticeable gains in performance. In an 8 week training program we spend several weeks at each of these phases.
1. Work Capacity - The athletes ability to work for extended periods at an above average capacity
2. Hypertrophy - Building bigger/stronger muscles so that an increased work load will be supported by a better structure.
3. Ballistic Training - taking that new capacity to work at higher levels and new found strength to a ballistic training model. Building "Horsepower" in those punches and kicks
4. Skill specific training - focusing on recovery and implementing new strength and conditioning in a more sport specific environment
arnold:
I just work at getting dead asses off the couch!
Kentbob:
The true value that I find in CrossFit is not how well it develops physical capacity, but how it develops mental toughness. It's pretty easy to run a 400m sprint three times. It's pretty simple to do three heavy deadlifts. But when you combine the two, it becomes a whole new animal, especially when you're trying to push yourself for the fastest time you can get.
That's the true beauty, is using the clock as a metric of whether or not your fitness is improving. Some people keep records of how much weight they've lifted, or how fast their two mile times are. That's good, but I think CrossFit takes it a step further with combining exercises, a la circuit training, and then asking you "How fast can you do this?", and "Can you do this faster than last time?" That's where the mental portion comes in. Can you push yourself, push away the pain in the midsection, the burning in the lungs and legs, in order to shave a couple seconds off of your time? Do you want to? I'm not here to tell a person one way or another if it's good or bad. If you can push yourself, or if you want to push yourself, then I think you will find great value in CrossFit, as long as you go to a good coach. Just like anything else, you need to learn good mechanics and good form.
I enjoy the community and the socialization before and after the WOD, as well as the exercise itself. I enjoy seeing improvement in my overall fitness, as well as being able to put up bigger numbers in the strength department.
I also enjoy the challenge of adding in other skills, such as balance training, gymnastics, trying to incorporate parkour/freerunning, powerlifting, etc. The variations for combinations of exercise are endless.
And, not to thump my chest, I like the looks I get from my fellow soldiers when I do something that they think is way to hard, or something that should be impossible for a guy my size. I think CrossFit teaches us to push the bounds of what is possible for our bodies.
Overall, I still love it. I will not judge anyone else for not liking it, or simply not wanting to do it. However, I'll put CrossFit up against any other "fad" workout program like P90-X, Insanity, 7 minute abs, you name it. But, after a session of P90-X, that person has to come into the gym and do a WOD.
Kent
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