World-renowned runner ASBEL KIPROP is now incorporating CROSSFIT-style workouts to his training. Sub-3:26 possible??

You joke, but there are guys who actually think like this.

Not about Kiprop, mind. Chances are of you're intelligent enough to know about Asbel, you're intelligent enough to realise cross fit is bullshit

Crossfit has always been about appropriating workouts from other disciplines and adding a ™ on the end of it.

Glassman is a classic businessman...take something freely available, repackage it, and sell it.

very good question! I personally think so!

But why is Kiprop doing it alone?? Is he being punished by the others who form a team??

I hope he does run sub 3:26 will doing some x-fit. The LRC forum would go tilt, tilt, tilt.

CrossFit is a holistic training program. All different parts of it play together, you can't just nitpick. Look at Kiprop, still SCRAWNY like a pole.

Dude's gotta incorporate some heavy weights and eat like a lion. Until then, he doesn't look like a real man and won't find a mate, like, ever.

This is great. It's fun watching them be human. Sometimes I feel like the Kenyans are all robots. I just love watching them have fun and good around. They don't seem to be taking any of this work very seriously, but maybe they're just joking around and making fun of the cross fit thing.

it is like the wavefunction of the Universe. Holistic indeed!

it is like the wavefunction of the Universe. Holistic indeed!

Personally, I think he would benefit from using this workout plan:

http://amzn.to/1e77E4N

sweatin it out, maybe he can go sub-3:26, MAYBE

Xfit_guy_the_real_1 wrote:

Look at Kiprop, still SCRAWNY like a pole.

He says he's trying to bulk up so he can finally have some SPEED. Judging by the recent video, he's doing the right workouts for the combo of BUFF and SHREDDED that can win him the 1500m world record.

SensitivePrudes wrote:

Crossfit has always been about appropriating workouts from other disciplines and adding a ™ on the end of it.

Glassman is a classic businessman...take something freely available, repackage it, and sell it.

BINGO to the max. These nuts think that they invented the concept of "cross-training" and "circuit training." Or at the very least RE-invented it. But of course they've also re-invented running too.

If there were ever a runner who appears to NOT follow the Cult-Fit mantra of "getting, huge, ripped and buff", it's Absel Kiprop. lol.

And oh yeah, he was world jr x-c champ at age 17. I am sure in his teen years his main form of training that led to this success were olympic style lifts, deadlifts for reps, kettlebellls, ring training, and box jumps. Yes, I am SURE of it!

CrossFit Cory wrote:

The tire dragging at 5:00 is a classic workout that is done at CrossFit boxes across the country. Glad to see that it's being picked up on by the Kenyans.

I went to HS in the early 80s in quite rural Michigan and our football players and sprinters were tire dragging then - most likely before then too. Nothing new to see here, no matter how you package it.

I thought he was lifting 12 ouncers and punching out bouncers in his attempt to break 3:26

CrossFit Cory wrote:

Very encouraging to see. I've done similar workouts at my box. Here's the video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUMqOEDhLkU

You can see at 2:40 he's using a CrossFit resistance band on that pole. Very impressive.

The tire dragging at 5:00 is a classic workout that is done at CrossFit boxes across the country. Glad to see that it's being picked up on by the Kenyans.

Very good jump rope form at 6:00. I think Kiprop has watched some of Rich Froning's highlights.

Are we gonna see sub-3:26 this year?

Well, this video is from 2011...not sure how well it suggests XFit magic suddenly getting him to 3:26.

Maybe it got him to 3:27 though.

Damn Obama!!

looooooop wrote:

You joke, but there are guys who actually think like this.

Not about Kiprop, mind. Chances are of you're intelligent enough to know about Asbel, you're intelligent enough to realise cross fit is bullshit

It's going to be funny when it's finally revealed that Xfit_guy_the_real_1 is really Galen Rupp.

Xfit_guy_the_real_1 wrote:

CrossFit is a holistic training program. All different parts of it play together, you can't just nitpick. Look at Kiprop, still SCRAWNY like a pole.

Dude's gotta incorporate some heavy weights and eat like a lion. Until then, he doesn't look like a real man and won't find a mate, like, ever.

CrossFit is not training, it's exercising. Training is systematic stress that forces the body to adapt. CrossFit is a bunch of random shit that eventually injures you.

InWyo wrote:

CrossFit is not training, it's exercising. Training is systematic stress that forces the body to adapt. CrossFit is a bunch of random shit that eventually injures you.

says the SCRAWNY runner

Xfit_guy_the_real_1 wrote:

Until then, he doesn't look like a real man and won't find a mate, like, ever.

We don't care about your sexual preferences. (And no, the whole world does not necessarily think like you.)

In addition, if it is not for his looks, the money he's surely made being at the top of his discipline must help him quite a lot "finding mates".