RE: worlds fittest man - WORKOUT

Sorry he would destroy everyone in crossfit. They is just no competition from real athletes in that "sport"

PTF wrote:While he is an extraordinary athlete, he would not do all that well at Crossfit at the top level competitions. His skills are quite different than those required at the Crossfit Games. Believe it or not, he wouldn't have the type of muscular endurance required for Crossfit. He's got a bit too much fast twitch...for lack of a better description. He's also a bit small and it would take years to develop all the lifting and gymnastic techniques.

Again...this is not to take anything away from him...or even claim that anyone is any fitter...just to point out he would not necessarily do all that well at top level Crossfit contests.

The top Crossfit competitors are a strange breed. They are able to generate enormous power over a long period of time. You don't really need lightning fast quickness or explosiveness.

Enormous power? Give me a break dude. If the only thing you can do is lift weights, and not even all that well at that, it's not impressive. They are guys that couldn't hack it as olympic lifters and just get good at doing a lot of volume.

They can't run, jump, throw, or even do basic lifts (squat/deadlift) with top athletes. Only 1 or 2 can do Olympic lifts with them, which are mostly technical in nature.

Simple as this, if Froning and Eaton/Burroughs/Hardee/whoever else went and played a game of pick-up bball or football, Froning would look like a clown among men.

I understand that people are put off by the obnoxious nature of the Crossfit PR machine...along with their ridiculous claims. And I also understand that many feel compelled to put Crossfit down because they take it so personally.

However, if you can't recognize the athletic capabilities of the men & women at the top of the Crossfit sport...or whatever you feeling like calling it...then you are simply deluded or ignorant or both. And you probably are not familiar with the backgrounds of the people that excel at Crossfit. They are loaded with people who excelled at other sports.

However, I suppose if you're the sort of person who is not impressed by anything...and has no respect for anyone...then there's not much to say.

Maybe it's the whole "world's fittest man" baloney. It's very irritating.

Ok I get it. By most measures, Froning is a superior athlete than anyone else on this planet. Can we close this thread now and talk about running again?

I absolutely love how everybody here knows with 100% certainty how Eaton would do in events other than the decathlon. How the heck would you know? You've never done the workouts Froning does, neither has Eaton so zip it about how he would perform. He may dominate as you claim, or he may get his butt stomped. There's only one way to know, and when his competitive decathlon days are over we'll probably find out. Like many top level athletes, once their specialty days are behind them they try Crossfit for the love of competition.

I can tell you only one thing with complete confidence...if Eaton takes up Crossfit and destroys Froning, Froning will be his biggest fan and cheerleader, and vice versa. They're both much bigger people than the average jerk on this forum.

Lighten up Francis wrote:

if Eaton takes up Crossfit and destroys Froning, Froning will be his biggest fan and cheerleader, and vice versa. They're both much bigger people than the average jerk on this forum.

"if" is a big word. Yes if Froning specialized on decathlon, he'd destroy Eaton. Luckily for him, he is not interested in that niche sport though.

If Eaton took up Crossfit he would fail. He's just too scrawny. Froning looks like THE TERMINATOR next to him.

Peace.

I can't believe people keep responding to this guy. He's such an obvious troll, but he's got to be close to surpassing the 4:30 Miler in trolling prowess. Hell, I wouldn't be surprised if it's the same guy. I've got to tip my hat to him.

OK, Froning would probably do well in obstacle races, I may see him winning one of these, but when it comes to real Marathons, he has no chance against superior runners like the Kenyans.

Then again, the women probably prefer Froning...

Chad Vaughn was a 2 time Olympian and American record holder in Olympic weightlifting. Vaughn is a good crossfitter but not even close to Froning.

PTF wrote:

I understand that people are put off by the obnoxious nature of the Crossfit PR machine...along with their ridiculous claims. And I also understand that many feel compelled to put Crossfit down because they take it so personally.

However, if you can't recognize the athletic capabilities of the men & women at the top of the Crossfit sport...or whatever you feeling like calling it...then you are simply deluded or ignorant or both. And you probably are not familiar with the backgrounds of the people that excel at Crossfit. They are loaded with people who excelled at other sports.

However, I suppose if you're the sort of person who is not impressed by anything...and has no respect for anyone...then there's not much to say.

Maybe it's the whole "world's fittest man" baloney. It's very irritating.

Well, they themselves are the ones responsible for the hate. They take pride in people getting injured (rhabdo), claim they are the best athletes when most are hacks that couldn't make it on JV college teams, use poor form on the majority of exercises to boost their numbers (the first point about injuries), and they don't do anything particularly athletic. Just a bunch of gym exercises. Minimal running, jumping, throwing, swimming. When they do those events, they purposely give them little weight because of how truly bad the majority of their competitors are at them.

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Xfit_guy_the_real_one_1 wrote:

Lighten up Francis wrote:

if Eaton takes up Crossfit and destroys Froning, Froning will be his biggest fan and cheerleader, and vice versa. They're both much bigger people than the average jerk on this forum.

"if" is a big word. Yes if Froning specialized on decathlon, he'd destroy Eaton. Luckily for him, he is not interested in that niche sport though.

If Eaton took up Crossfit he would fail. He's just too scrawny. Froning looks like THE TERMINATOR next to him.

Peace.

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x fitter wrote:

Then why don't they (you)?

Is $250,000 not worth it to you?

Irrelevant. Regardeless of how much money they (Froning) are (is)making crossshiters are crappy athletes that would be beatean by a ton of non-elite athletes from real power sports (footbalers, sprinters, decas, weigh lifters, fighters, gymnasts, etc...) at their OWN shit. Crossshit is the sport with the lowest genetic potential pool in the world anyways.

How is it irrelevant?

Your statement is just not true. The financial incentive is too large. If so many people could just jump into CrossFit and beat Froning, why don't they? The winner of the CrossFit games will probably clear over $400,000 in 2013 including sponsorships.

The Games is open to anyone. All it takes is $20 and video capabilities.

They are doing real sports. (Some making much more then Froning)

0bi wrote:

Irrelevant. Regardeless of how much money they (Froning) are (is)making crossshiters are crappy athletes that would be beatean by a ton of non-elite athletes from real power sports (footbalers, sprinters, decas, weigh lifters, fighters, gymnasts, etc...) at their OWN shit. Crossshit is the sport with the lowest genetic potential pool in the world anyways.

Does this guy qualify as a non-elite athlete from a real power sport?

Pappas was actually elite... I'll give you that. However Im also stronger then him (w/slightly better 100 pb) while being way lighter, not really a good example.

Read this: Now they do a good job of hedging by stating that "if running is your sport, go for it.."

http://tnation.t-nation.com/free_online_forum/diet_blog_hammer_velocity_shugart/running_makes_you_fat&s=forumIndexTopic

xfitguy the other real 1 wrote:

Does this guy qualify as a non-elite athlete from a real power sport?

http://games.crossfit.com/athlete/53816

LMAO! Tom Pappas is 10 years removed from his best marks and has a full-time job and family to provide for. The fact a guy a decade removed from his best and a solid 6-8 years removed from even being competitive is able to train part-time with kids and a family and achieve that level shows what a joke CrossFit is.