Why CrossFit?
“What makes CrossFit different than regular resistance training?”
The quintessential CrossFit training question that comes up at least twice a day with new prospects. Below are my top 5 reasons why I believe CrossFit works for those serious about fitness training and productive workouts:
Top 5 reasons why CrossFit works
- CrossFit is hard - First and foremost, so, deal with it. It is physiologically impossible to obtain significant weight loss, strength gain and true cardiovascular endurance with easy workouts. Period. If anyone tries to convince you otherwise, walk away. It’s a boldface lie.
- CrossFit uses a variety of movements - Repetition is boring, and worse, less productive than utilizing a wide range of movements from a variety of athletic disciplines. CrossFit keeps things interesting.
- Most top athletes CrossFit - And they may not even know it - or call it as such; but, CrossFit is nothing new with regards to the exercises and intensity. Instead, it offers a varied mixture of a wide range of specific training methodologies that create strong, capable athletes such as boxers, gymnasts, weightlifters, and runners.
- CrossFit utilizes the sport of fitness - Healthy competition associated with fitness training helps drive individuals to push a little harder and attack a workout a little stronger, all in an effort to perhaps be a little better than the next guy - or, improve upon the individual’s last performance. The ego is a terrible thing to waste [sic]
- CrossFit works - The most important element of all. No other current methodology around the exercise and fitness scene today is producing more fit athletes and trainees than CrossFit.
Know of something better?
Bring it! We’ll try it - then, you’ll try ours.
Lastly, as someone who scours Craigslist and Ebay for additional, basic equipment for the gym, it’s interesting to note that no one seems to be selling-off their kettle bells, medicine balls, GHD machines, dip stations. rings, pull-up bars, plyometric boxes …etc etc
But, there sure are a friggin’ lot of all-in-one machines, Gold’s Gym bench press units, ellipticals, and the always laughable Bowflex versions littering the online commerce sites in mass
Wonder why? {wink}
One Hundred Pushups
CrossFit Metro takes on the one hundred push-ups challenge
Internet Marketing Lesson 1: It’s always the simplest ideas that become the most viral on the Internet.
One interesting fitness-related web site called, one hundred pushups, is making it’s rounds around the web and inspiring folks from many exercise and fitness disciplines.
The site claims to have devised a simple program that will allow most anyone to get to a level of being able to complete 100 continuous pushups within in six weeks.
Christian, CrossFit Metro blogger, took the challenge.
Christian says, “Why not throw in a little push-up training to supplement my CrossFit?”, “Grease the groove, baby, grease the groove…”
We’ll report the results of the challenge on September 26, 2008
Knowing When to Rest
This morning I struggled.
CrossFit HQ workout looked hard and my body felt battered and sore. How does one truly know when they should rest and allow the body much needed recovery? …and when the mind is playing trciks on you because you just “don’t feel like it today”
My personal belief is both scenarios can possibly be one in the same.
Some days, I feel like a monster and aspire to train as such - and some days, although much less frequently, I feel tired, lethargic, sore, and/or beat-up. Some say it’s being lazy, but others say that it’s your body asking politely for rest - ignore it, and the body may become less polite and just make you sick.
No thanks.
I’ll sit this one out today - eat like a champ - rest, and hammer the WOD tomorrow during the HQ rest day.
Thoughts?
Can you do 100 push-ups?
Someone sent this web site to me, and I did find it interesting and intriguing - I can’t do 100 consecutive push-ups without stopping.
The program idea fits very well into the minimalist approach that we, as CrossFitters, have come to embrace with regards to our CrossFit training methodologies.
Check out: One Hundred Push Ups
Looks like an interesting way to “grease the groove” and perhaps attack as a two-a-day complement to CrossFit WODs.
Thoughts?
CrossFit Masters Competition
Should there be different standards for Masters competitors?
Today, while speaking with some other “over 35″ CrossFit trainers regarding the upcoming Fight Gone Bad workout on September 27, the subject came up regarding whether or not CrossFit should employ age groups for competition.
Personally, I’m on the fence.
On the positive side, creating age groups, similar to running races or olympic lifting competitions, would create a more level playing field for competition. In this scenerio, the forty-five year old crossfit trainer would not have to match the blistering pace of an elite, 22-year old, 3-minute Fran monkey; and instead, compete with other masters crosfitters more likely to offer more realistic competition .
But, as a thirty-eight year old myself, I’m not sure that I’m ready to give up the drive and determination to go after an athlete like Speal, OPT or a Mike G.
Do I currently have the ability to challenge an athlete like that today? - hell, no - but aspiring to get to that level is what keeps me training so hard and with so much intensity. I want to get better. Better than better. To push my kippings to a blistering pace …to learn the butterfly …to squeeze out a sub-three minute Fran …to take my fitness to levels that I never thought possible.
These may be far reaching goals; but to me they are very real and the possibilities are endless.
A Masters division in CrossFit would only allow older dudes to settle and scale - and in my opinion, that’s not in the spirit of CrossFit competition.
Settling? now way.
Anyone can do CrossFit for fitness training - all one needs to do is scale to ability level.
But if you want to compete in CrossFit, then you need to bring it - fight the same fight as everyone else and give it your absolute, uninhibited 100% effort.
Do that and you’ve already won. 9 years old or 90.
Thoughts?
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