Best Strength Sport for Strength?

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Yeah but, Fraser says himself he moved on to cross fit because he was not good enough for weightlifting.

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He probably thought he wasnā€™t good enough to win. That doesnā€™t mean he wouldnā€™t have been good enough to compete. Itā€™s just not in his personality to accept losing.

Iā€™m not sure of his weight but he looks like a pretty big dude. He might not be strong enough to compete at his current weight.

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"Colin Burns: How long were you strictly training for weightlifting before CrossFit, and can you tell us about that experience?

Mat Fraser: Before starting CrossFit, I trained for weightlifting for 10 years. I started when I was about 12 years old. During my weightlifting career, I was ā€˜03, ā€˜05, and ā€˜07 school-age champ, ā€˜09 Jr. National champ, and ā€˜09 Jr. World Team member. In 2009, I broke my L5 vertebrea in two spots and had to receive surgery to fix it. I was a resident athlete at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs from ā€˜08-09 and resident athlete at the Olympic Education Center from ā€˜10-11.

CB: What inspired you to transition from one sport to the other?

MF: I started CrossFit by accident. I had retired from weightlifting, and didnt step foot in a gym for 4 months. During this time, I lost about 25 pounds and got fat, all at the same time. I decided I wanted to start weightlifting again casually just to get in shape, so I looked up a CrossFit nearby just to see if I could use their bumpers and bar. I started going in more and more often to lift, and every once in a while, the members would convince me to do one of their workouts. After a while, I saw my potential in the sport and started training for it exclusively."

He was quite successful in O-lifting. He stopped due to injury.

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To be a real life Superman, train and eat like a competitive strongman.

To be a real life Batman, train and eat like a competitive CrossFitter.

So the question really is, whoā€™d win in a fight, Superman or Batman? Answer that and youā€™ll know how to train.

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What if I want to be a real life Ghost Rider? How do I train for that!?

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I guess I donā€™t need to lift anymore! Who wants to squat when you can walk on fire lol

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We get a lot of crossfitters turn up where I train. Most of them try strongman because they are strong crossfitters (their opinion/reasoning may not line up well with reality).

I would say most turn up with good base strength but they all get much stronger within their first 3 months.

So from my limited exposure, I wouldnā€™t look at crossfit to get strong.

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Iā€™ve noticed gyms now have a strength portion followed by a Metcon or traditional WOD. It seems that the importance of strength is now known to the CrossFit community but their goal of constantly varied activity still gets in the way.

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Would you rather fight 100 crossfit sized strongmen or 1 strongman sized crossfitter?

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The 100 strongman. Theyā€™ll all be too broken to fight well.

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do extremely crazy people count? Iā€™m betting my money on them.

Something about crazy person strength.

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This is interesting if you guys havenā€™t see it.

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I love Strength Wars.

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Cool video, but if you had to choose battling 100 grizzly sized cyclists or 1 goose sized strongman, I think youā€™d have the better bet with the cyclists.

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soooo the guy with the highest squat max (by a pretty decent margin) was able to squat for the most reps.

Never would have guessed.

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