My friend said your run-of-the-mill xfitters are more fit than ALL baseball players in the MLB. That cannot be true?
My friend said your run-of-the-mill xfitters are more fit than ALL baseball players in the MLB. That cannot be true?
I don't know what a run-of-the-mill xfitter is, but a good xfitter is in better shape than almost every baseball player. There might be one or two baseball players who are good athletes and are in good shape. But baseball is not a sport, and you don't have to be a good athlete or be in good shape to be a MLB all-star or Hall of Famer. There are a LOT of fatasses who are baseball all-stars. John Kruk with his six chins is a good example.
ALL baseball players?
How many of your run-of-the-mill xfitters can do this?
X-fitters are talentless muscle heads commanding zero respect from the populace at large
Case in point... when one of the Icelandic CF'ers were being interviewed on ESPN, she let the cat out of the bag by saying "before crossfit, I was never good at anything".Yes, there are some great athletes that have taken up crossfit. But, this quote proves that you don't have to be good at sport in any fashion, to be good at exercising.
run of the mill nobody wrote:
X-fitters are talentless muscle heads
How many runners can play other sports with a high degree also? I have seen and known quite a few runners who either were good high school runners that were useless at other sports. What eye hand coordination does it take to run?
No whaaaay! Yo das wak.
Are you kidding me?
Baseball players frequently have FUPA's (google it) that can't be unseen:
http://cdn.uinterview.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/christie1.jpg
Compare that to a picture of (shirtless) Rich Froning:
http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/images/2012/rich-froning-pullquote.jpg
That's a former player who walks to and from his car. No active pro is that flabby. Even the fat guys have a decent amount of muscle they just have tons of fat covering their muscles.
My opinion. Average male x- fit guys probably are fitter than average major league baseball players, however, their skills ain't worth $hit in comparison.
Aren´t all other athletes more fit than baseball players?
Jose Canseco and Barry Bonds could win the Crossfit Games now in their early 50s if they trained for it. Rich Frowning would be hard pressed to make an NAIA baseball team.
Albert Pujols is an athlete that gets paid $16 million a year, and he spends a lot of time in the gym. He could probably break Rich Froning in two.
http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/muscfitmay07_cover.htm
Froning is a joke and so are the rest of them.
coach d wrote:
Albert Pujols is an athlete that gets paid $16 million a year, and he spends a lot of time in the gym. He could probably break Rich Froning in two.
http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/muscfitmay07_cover.htm
So, he's 6'3 and 240 pounds and he's benching 200 lbs.
"We took small steps," Mihlfeld says. "He wasn't very strong with the weights at first, but in the last three years, we've really started to go heavy. In the beginning, he was doing dumbbell bench presses with 35s and 40s. Now, he's throwing around 100s like cupcakes."
13 year old girls can bench more than that:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxAc97K2I5MThe only fit baseball players are the middle infielders and center fielders. Aside from that it's up to the players personal discretion. Being fit really isn't important for the other positions in baseball. Many baseball players are straight up slobs, even guys that fail PED tests........http://m.mlb.com/cutfour/2015/05/20/125609956/bartolo-colon-beats-out-swinging-bunt
Baseball is a skill sport. Crossfit is exercise. They are literally two entirely different things. Of course someone who works on exercising all the time is going to be more fit than someone who works on a skill all the time.
Oddly enough, baseball is one of the few sports where the players could probably do crossfit and it wouldn't be a waste of their time. In most other sports the sport specific training is taxing enough that doing crossfit would take away from time that should be spent recovering.
Yeah, baseball is probably 97.6% skill - the rest is strength and hand/arm speed.
There are plenty of very fit baseball players - most center fielders, pinch runners, some infielders. But the median 5k time for MLB players is going to be well over 20 minutes. Some old DH-types might be more like 25+. I'm tempted to say even slower, but they do have a job that keeps them in the weight room, and jogging a little almost every day.
I know some MLB players are hobby-joggers. A Boston pitcher, although I forget which one. Can anyone find race results from MLB players?
I would think most pitchers would need an abundance of fast twitch muscle fibers to generate sufficient speed and quickness of arm movement. I'd bet most pitchers would make decent sprinters.
