just my 2 cents (too lazy to read those pages full of the same, idiotic discussions):
People get recognition for throwing barbells around, doing pullups, other nice gymnastic shit and pushing sleds. I have no desire whatsoever to do crossfit, but bodybuilding, powerlifting and olympic lifting profit from the recognition crossfit gets. And even better, you get women to do heavy lifts without that ageold shitty “i dont wanna get too big” crap.
Thank you Crossfit, for doing some good PR work.
[quote]fattymcfatso wrote:
Another thing that has been bothering me about the ignorance of CrossFit as a sport. It is a sport. I don’t know why some of you guys don’t get that. There are lot’s of movements under the umbrella of CrossFit as a sport, and those movements are tested in CrossFit competitions. It is stupid that some say that the top competitors don’t “do CrossFit” They work on on the powerlifting and weightlifting movements, basic gymnastics, calisthenics and running, all within the same program. That is diverse enough to cover all the bases for a CrossFit competition.
Here is the big question fellas. Do Strongmen only lift stones and logs? Or do they lift bars and use machines as well? Most only do the events once a week or so. Does that mean they don’t “train Strongman” Do powerlifters only squat bench and dead? Does that mean they don’t even train for the sport they compete in? See where I am going with this? It is easy to put down shit you can’t do. It even easier to put down shit you don’t have the guts to try doing.
CrossFit is done wrong all the time, but so is every other strength sport. If someone is doing a shitty deadlift and wearing a CrossFit shirt, that makes the whole sport stupid and dangerous? My mom is a shitty driver, does that mean Nascar is Stupid? (maybe a bad example) The generalizations are always from people who have never tried it.
The top CrossFit atheletes are incredible. Way past the physical capacity of most people on T-Nation. If you can snatch 300+ lbs and still run a 6 minute mile you are an AWESOME athelete.
So here is your rebuttal: Most CrossFit athletes were great athletes before CrossFit. Wow really. Really? No kidding. How about you suck on this: How many powerlifters, weightlifters, strongmen are former high school and coleigate atheletes? How about Pat Mendes? What did he do before Weightlifting? Football. Big surprise. How about the Cal Strength guys, how about the big boys on this forum? Anyone play someting else before your chosen sport right now? I started with powerlifting myself. How come I did not start with CrossFit? Because it did not get popular until 5 years ago!!!
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Crossfit isn’t a sport. It is a training philosophy/system.
The Crossfit games are a sport (or at least I’d consider them to be one).
Most, if not all, of the top competitors in the sport do not follow the crossfit training philosophy. Many “Boxes” do not either.
Your analogies to powerlifting and strongman are incorrect as you fail to distingish between the competition and the training. A powerlifter is someone who competes at powerlifting regardless of whether they use sheiko, westside, 5/3/1 or any other system. A crossfit games competitor is someone who competes at the crossfit games regardless of whether they train using crossfit, crossfit-football, 5/3/1, starting strength, GSLP+conditioning or their own system or anything else. Just because someone does “work on on the powerlifting and weightlifting movements, basic gymnastics, calisthenics and running, all within the same program” doesn’t mean they are doing crossfit.
[quote]OBoile wrote:
Crossfit isn’t a sport. It is a training philosophy/system.
The Crossfit games are a sport (or at least I’d consider them to be one).
Most, if not all, of the top competitors in the sport do not follow the crossfit training philosophy. Many “Boxes” do not either.
Your analogies to powerlifting and strongman are incorrect as you fail to distingish between the competition and the training. A powerlifter is someone who competes at powerlifting regardless of whether they use sheiko, westside, 5/3/1 or any other system. A crossfit games competitor is someone who competes at the crossfit games regardless of whether they train using crossfit, crossfit-football, 5/3/1, starting strength, GSLP+conditioning or their own system or anything else. Just because someone does “work on on the powerlifting and weightlifting movements, basic gymnastics, calisthenics and running, all within the same program” doesn’t mean they are doing crossfit.[/quote]
I’m curious O’Boile;
What’s your back ground in regards to Crossfit? (former competitor? former affiliate owner?)
How many of the top competitors do you know? (you seem to have quite a bit of information about how they train)
Being serious here, even though you may think I’m just trolling…
[quote]lanchefan1 wrote:
[quote]OBoile wrote:
Crossfit isn’t a sport. It is a training philosophy/system.
The Crossfit games are a sport (or at least I’d consider them to be one).
Most, if not all, of the top competitors in the sport do not follow the crossfit training philosophy. Many “Boxes” do not either.
Your analogies to powerlifting and strongman are incorrect as you fail to distingish between the competition and the training. A powerlifter is someone who competes at powerlifting regardless of whether they use sheiko, westside, 5/3/1 or any other system. A crossfit games competitor is someone who competes at the crossfit games regardless of whether they train using crossfit, crossfit-football, 5/3/1, starting strength, GSLP+conditioning or their own system or anything else. Just because someone does “work on on the powerlifting and weightlifting movements, basic gymnastics, calisthenics and running, all within the same program” doesn’t mean they are doing crossfit.[/quote]
I’m curious O’Boile;
What’s your back ground in regards to Crossfit? (former competitor? former affiliate owner?)
How many of the top competitors do you know? (you seem to have quite a bit of information about how they train)
Being serious here, even though you may think I’m just trolling…[/quote]
Dude, just say what you want to say and nobody will think you are trolling.
Cross fit ! why not??? It could be like Olympic track and field sports: decathlon, heptathlon, pentathlon that also require different physical qualities to participate at various sport activities… CF is a sport of its own. It just has to be standardized, coaches should go through specialized teaching centers. Of course, now CF mostly oriented and marketed towards the general audience which just needs to be conditioned and look good, but it could be a serious sport. As any sport - not for everyone…
[quote]lanchefan1 wrote:
[quote]OBoile wrote:
Crossfit isn’t a sport. It is a training philosophy/system.
The Crossfit games are a sport (or at least I’d consider them to be one).
Most, if not all, of the top competitors in the sport do not follow the crossfit training philosophy. Many “Boxes” do not either.
Your analogies to powerlifting and strongman are incorrect as you fail to distingish between the competition and the training. A powerlifter is someone who competes at powerlifting regardless of whether they use sheiko, westside, 5/3/1 or any other system. A crossfit games competitor is someone who competes at the crossfit games regardless of whether they train using crossfit, crossfit-football, 5/3/1, starting strength, GSLP+conditioning or their own system or anything else. Just because someone does “work on on the powerlifting and weightlifting movements, basic gymnastics, calisthenics and running, all within the same program” doesn’t mean they are doing crossfit.[/quote]
I’m curious O’Boile;
What’s your back ground in regards to Crossfit? (former competitor? former affiliate owner?)
How many of the top competitors do you know? (you seem to have quite a bit of information about how they train)
Being serious here, even though you may think I’m just trolling…[/quote]
Other than having met a few affiliate owners and participants, my experience is limited to reading their site/forum/journals etc. I do that regularly because I actually like the many of the concepts behind crossfit and I think they have a lot of useful information/ideas.
However, I do have an issue with people claiming everything is crossfit (this happens with other training systems as well, the “I’m doin 5/3/1 only I don’t squat or press” mentality). If you’re not following the basic tennants of the system (“constantly varied, highintensity,
functional movement”) then you aren’t really doing crossfit.
There are thousands of affiliates many, if not most, of which are doing their own system, yet crossfit people try claim credit for any elite performance - even if the only thing they have in common is that they both paid for the affiliate fee. If you’re not training the same way, then you aren’t doing the same thing. The goal may be the same, but the system isn’t.
[quote]OBoile wrote:
[quote]lanchefan1 wrote:
[quote]OBoile wrote:
Crossfit isn’t a sport. It is a training philosophy/system.
The Crossfit games are a sport (or at least I’d consider them to be one).
Most, if not all, of the top competitors in the sport do not follow the crossfit training philosophy. Many “Boxes” do not either.
Your analogies to powerlifting and strongman are incorrect as you fail to distingish between the competition and the training. A powerlifter is someone who competes at powerlifting regardless of whether they use sheiko, westside, 5/3/1 or any other system. A crossfit games competitor is someone who competes at the crossfit games regardless of whether they train using crossfit, crossfit-football, 5/3/1, starting strength, GSLP+conditioning or their own system or anything else. Just because someone does “work on on the powerlifting and weightlifting movements, basic gymnastics, calisthenics and running, all within the same program” doesn’t mean they are doing crossfit.[/quote]
I’m curious O’Boile;
What’s your back ground in regards to Crossfit? (former competitor? former affiliate owner?)
How many of the top competitors do you know? (you seem to have quite a bit of information about how they train)
Being serious here, even though you may think I’m just trolling…[/quote]
Other than having met a few affiliate owners and participants, my experience is limited to reading their site/forum/journals etc. I do that regularly because I actually like the many of the concepts behind crossfit and I think they have a lot of useful information/ideas.
However, I do have an issue with people claiming everything is crossfit (this happens with other training systems as well, the “I’m doin 5/3/1 only I don’t squat or press” mentality). If you’re not following the basic tennants of the system (“constantly varied, highintensity,
functional movement”) then you aren’t really doing crossfit.
There are thousands of affiliates many, if not most, of which are doing their own system, yet crossfit people try claim credit for any elite performance - even if the only thing they have in common is that they both paid for the affiliate fee. If you’re not training the same way, then you aren’t doing the same thing. The goal may be the same, but the system isn’t.[/quote]
Why is it so damn difficult for the people on this site to understand what CrossFit is? It is a sport. Powerlifting is a sport. Strongman is a sport. Highland is a sport. Weightlifting is a sport. Do whatever the hell you want to to train for whatever sport you want. If you want to climb rocks to train for snatches then that is your problem.
For many years I was working out only among other men, and now when I have to go to commercial gyms I personally feel that working out together with females is quite humiliating for a man… but I think in west countries there isn’t any gym exclusively for men… so I am still getting used to it:)
still waiting for all the haters of crossfit to tell us how good they are at their sport…
[quote]fattymcfatso wrote:
[quote]OBoile wrote:
[quote]lanchefan1 wrote:
[quote]OBoile wrote:
Crossfit isn’t a sport. It is a training philosophy/system.
The Crossfit games are a sport (or at least I’d consider them to be one).
Most, if not all, of the top competitors in the sport do not follow the crossfit training philosophy. Many “Boxes” do not either.
Your analogies to powerlifting and strongman are incorrect as you fail to distingish between the competition and the training. A powerlifter is someone who competes at powerlifting regardless of whether they use sheiko, westside, 5/3/1 or any other system. A crossfit games competitor is someone who competes at the crossfit games regardless of whether they train using crossfit, crossfit-football, 5/3/1, starting strength, GSLP+conditioning or their own system or anything else. Just because someone does “work on on the powerlifting and weightlifting movements, basic gymnastics, calisthenics and running, all within the same program” doesn’t mean they are doing crossfit.[/quote]
I’m curious O’Boile;
What’s your back ground in regards to Crossfit? (former competitor? former affiliate owner?)
How many of the top competitors do you know? (you seem to have quite a bit of information about how they train)
Being serious here, even though you may think I’m just trolling…[/quote]
Other than having met a few affiliate owners and participants, my experience is limited to reading their site/forum/journals etc. I do that regularly because I actually like the many of the concepts behind crossfit and I think they have a lot of useful information/ideas.
However, I do have an issue with people claiming everything is crossfit (this happens with other training systems as well, the “I’m doin 5/3/1 only I don’t squat or press” mentality). If you’re not following the basic tennants of the system (“constantly varied, highintensity,
functional movement”) then you aren’t really doing crossfit.
There are thousands of affiliates many, if not most, of which are doing their own system, yet crossfit people try claim credit for any elite performance - even if the only thing they have in common is that they both paid for the affiliate fee. If you’re not training the same way, then you aren’t doing the same thing. The goal may be the same, but the system isn’t.[/quote]
Why is it so damn difficult for the people on this site to understand what CrossFit is? It is a sport. Powerlifting is a sport. Strongman is a sport. Highland is a sport. Weightlifting is a sport. Do whatever the hell you want to to train for whatever sport you want. If you want to climb rocks to train for snatches then that is your problem. [/quote]
No, crossfit is not a sport. If I go out to my garage and do the mainsite WOD, I’m not participating in a sport. I’m simply training. If I do westside, I’m not particpating in a sport (i.e. I’m not powerlifing), I’m simply training.
The crossfit games are a sport. It is a competition involving other people. It is the equivalent of participating in a powerlifting contest.
If I lift weights without competing in strongman, powerlifting or whatever, I’m not doing a sport. I’m just training. In between contests, I’m not doing a sport, I’m simply training for it.
If I do crossfit without particpiating in the games, I’m not competing in a sport, I’m just training. If I participate in the games, then while I’m participating I’m competing in a sport. In between the contests I’m simply training.
[quote]spk wrote:
still waiting for all the haters of crossfit to tell us how good they are at their sport…[/quote]
What is your point?
Maybe make one - tell us how great your box is.
My relationship with crossfit is like my relationship with Jesus. I dont hate Jesus, just those who would speak for him.
It makes my GF hot and she knows what front squats are. The guy that runs hers is like nationally ranked or something, i dont know how it works, and the programming is not bad.
[quote]OBoile wrote:
[quote]fattymcfatso wrote:
[quote]OBoile wrote:
[quote]lanchefan1 wrote:
[quote]OBoile wrote:
Crossfit isn’t a sport. It is a training philosophy/system.
The Crossfit games are a sport (or at least I’d consider them to be one).
Most, if not all, of the top competitors in the sport do not follow the crossfit training philosophy. Many “Boxes” do not either.
Your analogies to powerlifting and strongman are incorrect as you fail to distingish between the competition and the training. A powerlifter is someone who competes at powerlifting regardless of whether they use sheiko, westside, 5/3/1 or any other system. A crossfit games competitor is someone who competes at the crossfit games regardless of whether they train using crossfit, crossfit-football, 5/3/1, starting strength, GSLP+conditioning or their own system or anything else. Just because someone does “work on on the powerlifting and weightlifting movements, basic gymnastics, calisthenics and running, all within the same program” doesn’t mean they are doing crossfit.[/quote]
I’m curious O’Boile;
What’s your back ground in regards to Crossfit? (former competitor? former affiliate owner?)
How many of the top competitors do you know? (you seem to have quite a bit of information about how they train)
Being serious here, even though you may think I’m just trolling…[/quote]
Other than having met a few affiliate owners and participants, my experience is limited to reading their site/forum/journals etc. I do that regularly because I actually like the many of the concepts behind crossfit and I think they have a lot of useful information/ideas.
However, I do have an issue with people claiming everything is crossfit (this happens with other training systems as well, the “I’m doin 5/3/1 only I don’t squat or press” mentality). If you’re not following the basic tennants of the system (“constantly varied, highintensity,
functional movement”) then you aren’t really doing crossfit.
There are thousands of affiliates many, if not most, of which are doing their own system, yet crossfit people try claim credit for any elite performance - even if the only thing they have in common is that they both paid for the affiliate fee. If you’re not training the same way, then you aren’t doing the same thing. The goal may be the same, but the system isn’t.[/quote]
Why is it so damn difficult for the people on this site to understand what CrossFit is? It is a sport. Powerlifting is a sport. Strongman is a sport. Highland is a sport. Weightlifting is a sport. Do whatever the hell you want to to train for whatever sport you want. If you want to climb rocks to train for snatches then that is your problem. [/quote]
No, crossfit is not a sport. If I go out to my garage and do the mainsite WOD, I’m not participating in a sport. I’m simply training. If I do westside, I’m not particpating in a sport (i.e. I’m not powerlifing), I’m simply training.
The crossfit games are a sport. It is a competition involving other people. It is the equivalent of participating in a powerlifting contest.
If I lift weights without competing in strongman, powerlifting or whatever, I’m not doing a sport. I’m just training. In between contests, I’m not doing a sport, I’m simply training for it.
If I do crossfit without particpiating in the games, I’m not competing in a sport, I’m just training. If I participate in the games, then while I’m participating I’m competing in a sport. In between the contests I’m simply training.[/quote]
Precisely. So if I do squats every monday, (as I do) and do olympic lifting 2 times a week, and do varying metcons that I make sure include going overhead. Then what am I doing? Training. That is what I do. The differnce between the way that I train and the way that you train (I’m guessing) is that I at any point could enter a CrossFit competition and do well.
My argument is that CrossFit is a sport. Which you can not refute. You can train for the sport of CrossFit however you want to. Just as you may train for Strongman however you want to.
I don’t give a shit what you guys think the philosophies of CrossFit are. I own a CrossFit gym and have never bought into a great deal of the shit the main site preaches. Just as I don’t agree with the shit standards that are allowed in powerlifting now. That has no bearing on the fact that CrossFit and powerlifting are both sports.
[quote]fattymcfatso wrote:
[quote]OBoile wrote:
[quote]fattymcfatso wrote:
[quote]OBoile wrote:
[quote]lanchefan1 wrote:
[quote]OBoile wrote:
Crossfit isn’t a sport. It is a training philosophy/system.
The Crossfit games are a sport (or at least I’d consider them to be one).
Most, if not all, of the top competitors in the sport do not follow the crossfit training philosophy. Many “Boxes” do not either.
Your analogies to powerlifting and strongman are incorrect as you fail to distingish between the competition and the training. A powerlifter is someone who competes at powerlifting regardless of whether they use sheiko, westside, 5/3/1 or any other system. A crossfit games competitor is someone who competes at the crossfit games regardless of whether they train using crossfit, crossfit-football, 5/3/1, starting strength, GSLP+conditioning or their own system or anything else. Just because someone does “work on on the powerlifting and weightlifting movements, basic gymnastics, calisthenics and running, all within the same program” doesn’t mean they are doing crossfit.[/quote]
I’m curious O’Boile;
What’s your back ground in regards to Crossfit? (former competitor? former affiliate owner?)
How many of the top competitors do you know? (you seem to have quite a bit of information about how they train)
Being serious here, even though you may think I’m just trolling…[/quote]
Other than having met a few affiliate owners and participants, my experience is limited to reading their site/forum/journals etc. I do that regularly because I actually like the many of the concepts behind crossfit and I think they have a lot of useful information/ideas.
However, I do have an issue with people claiming everything is crossfit (this happens with other training systems as well, the “I’m doin 5/3/1 only I don’t squat or press” mentality). If you’re not following the basic tennants of the system (“constantly varied, highintensity,
functional movement”) then you aren’t really doing crossfit.
There are thousands of affiliates many, if not most, of which are doing their own system, yet crossfit people try claim credit for any elite performance - even if the only thing they have in common is that they both paid for the affiliate fee. If you’re not training the same way, then you aren’t doing the same thing. The goal may be the same, but the system isn’t.[/quote]
Why is it so damn difficult for the people on this site to understand what CrossFit is? It is a sport. Powerlifting is a sport. Strongman is a sport. Highland is a sport. Weightlifting is a sport. Do whatever the hell you want to to train for whatever sport you want. If you want to climb rocks to train for snatches then that is your problem. [/quote]
No, crossfit is not a sport. If I go out to my garage and do the mainsite WOD, I’m not participating in a sport. I’m simply training. If I do westside, I’m not particpating in a sport (i.e. I’m not powerlifing), I’m simply training.
The crossfit games are a sport. It is a competition involving other people. It is the equivalent of participating in a powerlifting contest.
If I lift weights without competing in strongman, powerlifting or whatever, I’m not doing a sport. I’m just training. In between contests, I’m not doing a sport, I’m simply training for it.
If I do crossfit without particpiating in the games, I’m not competing in a sport, I’m just training. If I participate in the games, then while I’m participating I’m competing in a sport. In between the contests I’m simply training.[/quote]
Precisely. So if I do squats every monday, (as I do) and do olympic lifting 2 times a week, and do varying metcons that I make sure include going overhead. Then what am I doing? Training. That is what I do. The differnce between the way that I train and the way that you train (I’m guessing) is that I at any point could enter a CrossFit competition and do well.
My argument is that CrossFit is a sport. Which you can not refute. You can train for the sport of CrossFit however you want to. Just as you may train for Strongman however you want to.
I don’t give a shit what you guys think the philosophies of CrossFit are. I own a CrossFit gym and have never bought into a great deal of the shit the main site preaches. Just as I don’t agree with the shit standards that are allowed in powerlifting now. That has no bearing on the fact that CrossFit and powerlifting are both sports.
[/quote]
No, Crossfit is not a sport. There are millions of people that do Crossfit that don’t compete at anything.
Crossfit is analogous to Westside. It is a training system.
From the official website:
[quote]CrossFit is the principal strength and conditioning program for many police academies and tactical operations teams, military special operations units, champion martial artists, and hundreds of other elite and professional athletes worldwide.
[/quote]
http://www.crossfit.com/cf-info/what-crossfit.html
A “strength and conditioning program” is not a sport.
[quote]OBoile wrote:
[quote]fattymcfatso wrote:
[quote]OBoile wrote:
[quote]fattymcfatso wrote:
[quote]OBoile wrote:
[quote]lanchefan1 wrote:
[quote]OBoile wrote:
Crossfit isn’t a sport. It is a training philosophy/system.
The Crossfit games are a sport (or at least I’d consider them to be one).
Most, if not all, of the top competitors in the sport do not follow the crossfit training philosophy. Many “Boxes” do not either.
Your analogies to powerlifting and strongman are incorrect as you fail to distingish between the competition and the training. A powerlifter is someone who competes at powerlifting regardless of whether they use sheiko, westside, 5/3/1 or any other system. A crossfit games competitor is someone who competes at the crossfit games regardless of whether they train using crossfit, crossfit-football, 5/3/1, starting strength, GSLP+conditioning or their own system or anything else. Just because someone does “work on on the powerlifting and weightlifting movements, basic gymnastics, calisthenics and running, all within the same program” doesn’t mean they are doing crossfit.[/quote]
I’m curious O’Boile;
What’s your back ground in regards to Crossfit? (former competitor? former affiliate owner?)
How many of the top competitors do you know? (you seem to have quite a bit of information about how they train)
Being serious here, even though you may think I’m just trolling…[/quote]
Other than having met a few affiliate owners and participants, my experience is limited to reading their site/forum/journals etc. I do that regularly because I actually like the many of the concepts behind crossfit and I think they have a lot of useful information/ideas.
However, I do have an issue with people claiming everything is crossfit (this happens with other training systems as well, the “I’m doin 5/3/1 only I don’t squat or press” mentality). If you’re not following the basic tennants of the system (“constantly varied, highintensity,
functional movement”) then you aren’t really doing crossfit.
There are thousands of affiliates many, if not most, of which are doing their own system, yet crossfit people try claim credit for any elite performance - even if the only thing they have in common is that they both paid for the affiliate fee. If you’re not training the same way, then you aren’t doing the same thing. The goal may be the same, but the system isn’t.[/quote]
Why is it so damn difficult for the people on this site to understand what CrossFit is? It is a sport. Powerlifting is a sport. Strongman is a sport. Highland is a sport. Weightlifting is a sport. Do whatever the hell you want to to train for whatever sport you want. If you want to climb rocks to train for snatches then that is your problem. [/quote]
No, crossfit is not a sport. If I go out to my garage and do the mainsite WOD, I’m not participating in a sport. I’m simply training. If I do westside, I’m not particpating in a sport (i.e. I’m not powerlifing), I’m simply training.
The crossfit games are a sport. It is a competition involving other people. It is the equivalent of participating in a powerlifting contest.
If I lift weights without competing in strongman, powerlifting or whatever, I’m not doing a sport. I’m just training. In between contests, I’m not doing a sport, I’m simply training for it.
If I do crossfit without particpiating in the games, I’m not competing in a sport, I’m just training. If I participate in the games, then while I’m participating I’m competing in a sport. In between the contests I’m simply training.[/quote]
Precisely. So if I do squats every monday, (as I do) and do olympic lifting 2 times a week, and do varying metcons that I make sure include going overhead. Then what am I doing? Training. That is what I do. The differnce between the way that I train and the way that you train (I’m guessing) is that I at any point could enter a CrossFit competition and do well.
My argument is that CrossFit is a sport. Which you can not refute. You can train for the sport of CrossFit however you want to. Just as you may train for Strongman however you want to.
I don’t give a shit what you guys think the philosophies of CrossFit are. I own a CrossFit gym and have never bought into a great deal of the shit the main site preaches. Just as I don’t agree with the shit standards that are allowed in powerlifting now. That has no bearing on the fact that CrossFit and powerlifting are both sports.
[/quote]
No, Crossfit is not a sport. There are millions of people that do Crossfit that don’t compete at anything.
Crossfit is analogous to Westside. It is a training system.
From the official website:
[quote]CrossFit is the principal strength and conditioning program for many police academies and tactical operations teams, military special operations units, champion martial artists, and hundreds of other elite and professional athletes worldwide.
[/quote]
http://www.crossfit.com/cf-info/what-crossfit.html
A “strength and conditioning program” is not a sport.[/quote]
So when I compete on June 9th at a local CrossFit gym, what will I be competing in? It will be a competition. There will be 1 winner and a bunch of losers. What would you call that? It is definitely not the CrossFit games. It will not be on ESPN.
I know how much people love hypotheticals so here you go… Hey I have developed a new training philosophy. It is one where you go really fast on your feet. I’ll call it sprinting. I will do this activity to get in shape. I will not compete in it because I only developed it to get in shape, my goal when I developed this activity was strictly fitness. As time goes by I am sure no one will start to compete in my fitness program because it was not my goal initially. I will have full control over the progress and popularity of this activity.
So when I am playing football with my friends and we are keeping score, what are we doing? Bear in mind we suck at football and it is just for fun. What are we doing? Are we “training”?
Cross_F_U_C_K_E_R_S are GREAT!!!..
Go compete in a real sport or suck it up and realize you just are not elite athletes and
you should not be involved in a any competition that appears on national T.V.
It is simply a show of how a marketing campaign can put bullets in heads of people.
Why do you have to compete?
You can?t play pro-foot/basket/base ball nor perform gymnastics nor box at an elite level.
So what do you do?
You join the CROSS F_U_C_K_E_R_S.
If not you join the ?TRI-Athletes??.
Swim, bike , run?>!!!
Swim, Bike, RUN!!!
Deadlift, squat, jump rope!!!
Play HopScotch!!!
Throw the SoftBall for no reason!!!
How about Vertical Leaps?
How about J_A_C_K_I_N_G_O_F_F in a Circle??!?!?!!?!?!?!?!!?!?!?
[quote]tnationpaleo wrote:
Cross_F_U_C_K_E_R_S are GREAT!!!..
Go compete in a real sport or suck it up and realize you just are not elite athletes and
you should not be involved in a any competition that appears on national T.V.
It is simply a show of how a marketing campaign can put bullets in heads of people.
Why do you have to compete?
You can?t play pro-foot/basket/base ball nor perform gymnastics nor box at an elite level.
So what do you do?
You join the CROSS F_U_C_K_E_R_S.
If not you join the ?TRI-Athletes??.
Swim, bike , run?>!!!
Swim, Bike, RUN!!!
Deadlift, squat, jump rope!!!
Play HopScotch!!!
Throw the SoftBall for no reason!!!
How about Vertical Leaps?
How about J_A_C_K_I_N_G_O_F_F in a Circle??!?!?!!?!?!?!?!!?!?!?
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You sound pretty elite yourself. What sport do you compete in? What are your numbers? Surely you far surpass the athletic abilities of all CrossFit athletes. You are right, being well rounded is for pussies. Why the hell does powerlifting involve 3 lifts? It should only be one. Bench specialists are the best at one thing, so why the hell does anyone care about Ed Coan? Do you know who he is? He never came close to the bench record.
fatty
dont waste your time with these clowns… still waiting for all the haters to tell us how great they are at their sport… hahaha…
average high school wanna be’s lifting now i bet…
for my sport (pro bicycle racer0 i do a bit of all lifting for strength…
but i bet a ton, most crossfit guys could do far more pullups than the bodybuilder/powerlifter on here and is far fitter and way more agile…i bet most guys bashing crossfit are big slow moving out of shape wanna be bodybuilders…just bet they are…
^^is crossfit even a sport? I am venturing to say that lost of the population of the world would say no.
Also, why would you compare crossfitters (a proformanced based judging) with Bodybuilfers (a looks based judging)??? That makes no sense what so ever.
Would bodybuilders go out right now and do great at crossfit? No.
Would crossfitters go out right now and do great at bodybuilding? No.
You’re comparing apples to oranges.
I would smoke all you fuckers if jacking off was the event!
[quote]spk wrote:
fatty
dont waste your time with these clowns… still waiting for all the haters to tell us how great they are at their sport… hahaha…
average high school wanna be’s lifting now i bet…
for my sport (pro bicycle racer0 i do a bit of all lifting for strength…
but i bet a ton, most crossfit guys could do far more pullups than the bodybuilder/powerlifter on here and is far fitter and way more agile…i bet most guys bashing crossfit are big slow moving out of shape wanna be bodybuilders…just bet they are…
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So people are good at what they practice? holy shit!
I bet all you fuckers couldnt model a leveraged buy out without touching the mouse! Bet you weren’t ready for THAT! HAH!