I don’t have any knowledge of what competitive CrossFitters do in their day-to-day training but I would imagine it involves ~10 months Olympic, powerlifting, and general strength training with WODs interspersed 1-2 days a week to maintain conditioning followed by a 6-8 week conditioning period where they follow WODs leading up to and in preparation of competition.
I’ve done exactly 1 WOD with a friend of mine because I was in a different city and wanted to get a work out in. It was entirely a conditioning work out for me. It involved 3 rounds of 30 squat cleans, 30 pull ups, and a half mile run. Being about 290 lbs I finished roughly a 1-2 minutes ahead of everyone during the squat cleans and then fell behind in the pull ups and half mile run. It was absolutely a conditioning test for me.
However, having so many variations of WODs I can’t imagine working in progressive overload for strength gains that competitive CrossFitters experience. I imagine the average CrossFitter will experience fat loss but not much in terms of strength gains after they plateau on the WODs.
I think crossfit has its uses and as already stated I think it’s great more people are getting into lifting weights.
What does bother me about crossfit however, is the cultish vibe it gives off seen from certain angles. I’m getting a hint of it from some posters in this thread too.
*not bashing crossfit just making an observation - doesn’t make the ‘crossfit fails’ videos any less funny though!
However, having so many variations of WODs I can’t imagine working in progressive overload for strength gains that competitive CrossFitters experience. I imagine the average CrossFitter will experience fat loss but not much in terms of strength gains after they plateau on the WODs.[/quote]
This was my experience exactly … Ran crossfit for 2 years awhile back … Made progress on the WODs for about 8 months, then little to no progress for the next 12 -14
It wasn’t for lack of effort either - I would get nervous/ butterflies before a WOD because I was pushing it so much… Diet was 90% compliance with what they recommend. Yes, I had drunk the kool-aid
After 2 years I was lighter, but just looked like a skinnier version of myself prior. If anything, I lost muscle …
I think women respond better for longer periods because (for most) they have only done cardio and little weight training prior to starting crossfit … So they have more room for strength and muscle gains than a guy who has been lifting for awhile
And I also think, much like Weider getting a juiced up Arnold to sell his protein powder, it’s disingenuous to put forth the crossfit competitors as what crossfit can do for the average Joe/Jane … These people aren’t just “really good” at doing the “WOD” … And I’d wager their training looks nothing like what crossfit HQ puts out on a daily basis. They are now sponsored athletes whose job it is to work out - I doubt they are just checking in for 20-30 minutes a day.
[quote]hgs3 wrote:
I don’t have any knowledge of what competitive CrossFitters do in their day-to-day training but I would imagine it involves ~10 months Olympic, powerlifting, and general strength training with WODs interspersed 1-2 days a week to maintain conditioning followed by a 6-8 week conditioning period where they follow WODs leading up to and in preparation of competition.
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Yeah that’s pretty much it. Here’s an article on the periodization they use:
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And I also think, much like Weider getting a juiced up Arnold to sell his protein powder, it’s disingenuous to put forth the crossfit competitors as what crossfit can do for the average Joe/Jane … These people aren’t just “really good” at doing the “WOD” … And I’d wager their training looks nothing like what crossfit HQ puts out on a daily basis. They are now sponsored athletes whose job it is to work out - I doubt they are just checking in for 20-30 minutes a day. [/quote]
I’d bet good money on the fact that most of the top CF competitors are juiced as well.
They are. [/quote]
You know what’s sad though? I bet you could find a ton of people who would actually take you on that bet lol. It’s surreal sometimes how blind people are to this stuff.
They are. [/quote]
You know what’s sad though? I bet you could find a ton of people who would actually take you on that bet lol. It’s surreal sometimes how blind people are to this stuff.[/quote]
Oh yes, some people are VERY sensitive, even sensitive to the truth! Go on the CF forum and see how some CF’ers get bent out of shape because someone simply says some elite CF competitor is on 'roids, especially a female competitor.
Silly, childish, inapplicable statements such as, “Who are you to judge?”, “No one has the right to judge.”, “Quit whining and focus on yourself” abound. Meanwhile saying someone is on 'roids is not judgmental at all; it’s simply stating someone takes something, nothing more to it.
And before the PC hyenas started preaching the PC religion, being “judgmental” and “discriminative” was an admirable and understandable characteristic.
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Silly, childish, inapplicable statements such as, “Who are you to judge?”, “No one has the right to judge.”, “Quit whining and focus on yourself” abound. Meanwhile saying someone is on 'roids is not judgmental at all; it’s simply stating someone takes something, nothing more to it.
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Exactly. People assign a moral compass to steroids, which is absurd. Steroids are simply a substance and cannot even be “right” or “wrong”. They’re just a collection of inanimate objects. To accuse someone of judging for saying so-and-so is on gear is to yourself assign judgement to the substance where there should be none; just like you said.
My friends who are owners went to the crossfit games…talked to a LOT of people.
They said that it is fairly common knowledge that the majority of the top crossfitters are on something. Along with the majority of the females…the andro babe is highly prized in the crossfit community.
I can’t believe this threads still going, I figured out the OP was trollin on the first page. To me as a trainer crossfits a tool like any other, I did a weekend coarse, and it changed my perspective on some stuff I’ve been doing for years. It’s the cult atitude that I think scares people, that and the unknown. It’s sort of like KB’s, I use them with alot of clients, but I don’t believe they cure cancer.
Honestly crossfits helped me alot with over weight clients, it's not rocket science, but before I took the coarse I hadn't thought about mashing cardio, and weight's togeather into circuts, so even outside of the Oly lifting complexes there's stuff there for trainer's if they're open minded.
Brick; some funny f@#kin posts man, BBing is pretty gay if you think about it, lol
