xfit-guy doesn't even need to visit the board to troll anymore. He just started rolling the ball and then his haters took over.
10/10 to xfit-guy
The guy in this video has a nice way of putting that Crossfit basically throws away decades of sports science research. Overload, recovery, principal of specificity, periodization? Not for Crossfit.
My guess is most of those "professional" Crossfit athletes you see on TV aren't getting there by following the WODs at their local Box and that they have to follow a program that applies more sport science princapals to allow them to actually progress and peak when they want to compete. Then again I think a lot of Crossfit gyms have figured this out too, since many of them don't follow the official daily WODs anyway.
Old time sprinter wrote:
The guy in this video has a nice way of putting that Crossfit basically throws away decades of sports science research. Overload, recovery, principal of specificity, periodization? Not for Crossfit.
My guess is most of those "professional" Crossfit athletes you see on TV aren't getting there by following the WODs at their local Box and that they have to follow a program that applies more sport science princapals to allow them to actually progress and peak when they want to compete. Then again I think a lot of Crossfit gyms have figured this out too, since many of them don't follow the official daily WODs anyway.
Actually, there is an odd specificity to crossfit training. It is good for getting good at crossfit. A woman who I work with is married to a guy who has been to the national crossift games. He played college football (small school) and has a pretty good understanding of training science. He told me that most crossfit guys will do a lot of traditional strength training. But to prepare for competition, they just do lots and lots of crossfit "WODs" every day. As much as 4-5 a day. No single crossfit exercise is that hard. Any half decent athlete with the right build (i.e. not a distance runner) can do any of the exercises. The key is to be able to do them all back to back without any rest. That requires some specificity in training that is only accomplished by doing . . . crossfit. The guy I know is candid that crossfit really is only good at making you good at crossfit. There are plenty of guys at his gym who can out lift him, plenty of runners who are way faster than he is at the local 5k (he can break 20 on a good day and is faster than most crossfitters), and the same is true for most any sport. Thus, crossfit is really not some great training routine. It is just a made up sport that you can only really be good at by doing it a lot.
Precious Roy wrote:
It is just a made up sport that you can only really be good at by doing it a lot.
Isn't that most sports?