CROSSFIT

Negative. All specialized athletes cross-train. There's a reason.

The biggest thing for me was that I got more explosive during mass starts and was able to maintain a burst for longer and recover faster.

 

Its what they call their gyms.

Maybe because is filled with tools.

 

Wait, so you're saying kipping pull-ups are not real pull-ups? Tell me more. I've never heard this argument...

 

so you're saying... that strengthening your muscles... and increasing your breathing AND muscle endurance... allows you to be stronger??? which can crossover to doing other activities better???

 

Gieco Honda MX riders train with Crossfit.... But you know doesnt really help you train anything just gets you hurt.

 

Ask a Marine to count those pull-swings. They'll laugh at you.

This is a pull up

Reference: youtube.com/watch?v=y3GlKQ0EI8k



Good old school weight training is not just about how much weight you lift for X reps.It's about efficiency. The goal maximum results by working through proper form to
get all the muscle fibers and muscle groups involved in a movement to work as close to 100% together in order to move the resistance from start to finish, and at that finish
all muscles involved finish at max contraction. None of that happens in Cross Fit. It's just a bunch of swinging weights, yeah..you work up a sweat...big deal. Imagine how much
more explosive your bike starts would be and for how much longer they'd last if you trained for efficiency instead of swinging weights around. As I've said to many guys in the gym being sloppy:

"If God gave you three inches...do you put in two? Or do you give her all three and go so hard your bean bag is slapping?"





Your efforts in moving weights around would be better achieved if you started a moving company..then at least you'd be moving boxes around and getting paid for it.
But keep one box. You'll need it to stash away all your Cross-Fit gear when you latch on to the next fad.

 

Ken Roczen actually got hurt doing crossfit and waited to make a big deal of it until he got to the track.

 

It was a joke. Serious question though, why do you care? If Crossfit is a cult, then hating Crossfit must be a religion, because the haters are much louder here than the cult-fitters.

Crossfit is Crossfit, and a Marine Corps PFT is something different. Interestingly, I train with two Marines. When a workout calls for kipping pull-ups, they do kipping pullups. When it calls for strict, they do that. Get it?

Since we're on the subject, who's a better athlete? Phil Heath or Mat Fraser?

 

I don't really...if people want to waste their efforts in the gym...so be it. Only reason I care is because/when I want to use the equipment, they're wasting the equipment's time and causing
unnecessary wear and tear on it, too.

Better athlete...honestly, neither...they're just workout warriors. IMHO, you train FOR a sport..you don't turn your training INTO a sport. It's why they call the Mr. Olympia a "SHOW".

 

How is it a waste? It looks to me like Crossfit has gotten more people in better shape than anything else I've seen in my lifetime.

You don't turn training into a sport? Racing turns transportation into a sport. Is that wrong too?

 

You were doing ok, but this is not helping.

 

I will dedicate my 17.2 open performance to all the Crossfit haters on the beeb.

 

So if I kip on a bar and end up with it at waist high, or straight arms above the rings does it still count as a kipping pullup even though it's easier than a pullup. Used to be a gymnast so kips and pullups aren't the same thing to me.

 

So you don't think that doing sprint and interval training on the bike would work better, cause that's what cyclists do to achieve the same effect.

 

MHO:

Crossfit is great for people who need cheerleaders, and CAN be great for everyone else, so long as they're looking to get good at doing Crossfit workouts, and not some other activity that requires different training.

A friend of mine runs a Crossfit affiliate in SC. I do not do Crossfit, but knowing someone who runs one, I get a lot of insight into HIS location.

They are "affiliates." You could go to one that sucks, and one right across town that is awesome.

It's worth a try.

 

No, you're correct. I was cycling also, so the gym was in addition to that. I agree that the best way to get good at a thing is to do the thing. Definitely not suggesting cyclists miss cycling workouts in favor of Crossfit, just saying cross training is good.

 

And who the f#ck are you? You trying to turn arguing on the BBS into a sport too?

 

We do a ton of ring and bar muscle ups also so you'd crush that.

As a gymnast, you'd get a laugh out of the excitement over muscle ups in crossfit. It's not something that most people can do, but it's a perfunctory thing for a gymnast.