Rich Froning does the unthinkable - wins the CrossFit Games again (team comp this time)

How can he soar like an Eagle when he has a lot of Buzzards dragging him back down to Earth?

You is funny.

exthrower wrote:

With all those years of roids, his testicles must be like BB's..and his hair is already falling out..

Like many of the former WWE top wrestlers the former Cross Fit champs will die alone and depressed in their $800-a-month apartments.

Clearly the GOAT. Maybe he needs a new challenge like winning the NYC Marathon or the Tour de France?

notafitter wrote:

Clearly the GOAT. Maybe he needs a new challenge like winning the NYC Marathon or the Tour de France?

His 5k PR is 22:21. That is like 7:20 pace. 4:45 pace for 26 miles wins.

from another thread, love the "they look like over-grown midgets" line...

"alone and depressed in their $800-a-month apartments."

-you've just described 70% of the lrc.

I find it entertaining how intimidated all you skinny little runners/out of shape has beens are from some other athletes. Still jealous of the football player type, eh? As much as you want to hate on them, these guys are more fit than you- period. Sure, you can go run 10 miles. Whoopdy doo. What does that give you in life? Skinny arms and cachectic bodies? You can't bench the bar. You can't do more than 10 pullups. I see you there, laying on the mat with your little foam roller at the gym. These guys can't run 16 miles, but they are functionally fit. Mile repeats doesn't get you much but faster at doing those 10 milers.

Not so fast. I'm going to win the CrossFit games. I would like to remove some events and replace them with elliptical work, however.

leave hs behind! wrote:

Mile repeats doesn't get you much but faster at doing those 10 milers.

How would you know, meathead?

This is the best descriptive, yet. I watched some of it yesterday during the 400 meter "run" and yolk walk. They literally look like overgrown midgets. The women were atrocious. I cannot see one connection of carryover into professional athletics, of any kind.

Bramaterra wrote:

from another thread, love the "they look like over-grown midgets" line...

What about cross fit is "functional"? Survival is all about endurance and at least with running you can get somewhere.

think outside the box wrote:

What about cross fit is "functional"? Survival is all about endurance and at least with running you can get somewhere.

Well, you never know when you're gonna need to push around a metal sled on a football field.

leave hs behind! wrote:

I see you there, laying on the mat with your little foam roller at the gym.

Well said, brother.

POTD.

Xfit_guy_the_real_1 wrote:

Rich Froning does the unthinkable - wins the CrossFit Games again (team comp this time)

You're right. It is unthinkable that he wasted his time and effort on this. That's what you meant, right?

think outside the box wrote:

What about cross fit is "functional"? Survival is all about endurance and at least with running you can get somewhere.

LOL.

Yes, if you're a SKINNY/SCRAWNY runner then survival is all about running away from things.

Who really cares? This is letsrun.com, not "letsmakeupasportandbragaboutit.com"

I'm sure they are fit in their own way but stop with all the postings about a "sport" that you plainly state hasn't much to do with running

Mark Twight, founder of Gym Jones and the guy who built the "300" guys for the movie, summed up CrossFit the best for me. From an Outside magazine article: '"In December 2006, I gave a test to guys who were training with me that I thought was indicative of their progress," Twight says. "They underperformed to a degree that made me say, OK, everybody's benched for two weeks. I'm gonna go home and figure this out. That's when I realized that we weren't making progress because we weren't planning our training to make progress." CrossFit, he said, conditioned people for CrossFit. "But the gym is not our sport," he says. "Everyone here trains for something else."'

CrossFit makes you good at CrossFit. Very little of it actually translates into useful strength that can be used for real life situations.

That's the difference between runners and CrossFit cult members; running actually makes us good at running. CrossFit....well, the workouts are fun to take about over $5 lattes in the suburbs, right?

http://www.outsideonline.com/1924631/hell-earth-fitness-plan

That's exactly it. If they want to call it their own "sport", then fire away. But, the fact remains...

They are not training for speed/power. Literally, cf violates ALL speed/power development research findings.

And, as for endurance... it is literally picking stuff up, and putting it down a prescribed number of times. For the everyday person, this is not necessarily a bad thing... just stop claiming to be the best athletes on the planet.

This is "stuff" endurance. It should be called "cross-stuff".