Fittest Man in the World

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It’s a bit expensive here in the NYC/North Jersey area (along with everything else). But signing up for 6 months at $120-$150 a month seems about right. My CF Gym gives me a discount for being a veteran. I think most give discounts for Vets, Active Military, Cops, Firefighters, and EMTs.

Back to the “Fittest Man in the World” topic. I caught the tail-end of the games on ESPN 2 last night. A women’s tennis match went into overtime and was being played instead of the games (1 Women’s Tennis, 0 CrossFit). Anyway, the last event was 3-Rounds of 5 reps of Hand Stand Pushups from deficit and Ring Muscle Ups followed by 90-feet of walking overhead lunges (165lbs). Froning finished by a mile, and claimed his 3rd title. I don’t have all the stats, but I heard the announcers say he was doing ok leading up to the final day but on the final day he finished first in all three events.

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[quote]hipsr4runnin wrote:
Well the outstanding problem, even that I have had with this, is it is “Fitness” as defined by CF. Glassman just made up a definition because one didn’t exist to his liking. The preach this at the L1. I recently added it for my 3rd time and we had a 45 minute debate/sale on fitness and its concepts.

We tried to argue that Chris Spealer would out run an elite level marathon runner if the challenge was: who could make it to the top of the staircase of the empire state building?

Their idea of fitness or fittest is if we took random ass tasks, and put them into a hat or hopper, and pulled them out as a series of events to complete, who would win most overall? So take 1) Froning 2) Elite Level Marathon runner 3) Power lifter: who would win at?:
1)600lb deadlift 2) 30 muscle ups for time 3) 1/2 triathlon 4) Back Squat 350lbs for reps 5) 15 rope climbs 6) whatever the fuck 7) some fucking wod like grace etc etc

By their count: froning would win almost all events. Remember we are increasing work capacity over broad times and modal domains but if you use the definition of power: Cfers are also the most powerful. I wanted to replace the selected, sport specific athletes they choose and put Froning against some other “elite” individuals. They didn’t want to play. [/quote]
The crossfit definition of fitness if manipulated to be self serving. As I said, if you beat a crossfitter at something, it means you’re too specialized because you work on that thing too much. If the crossfitter beats you, it means you’re too specialized because you work on other things too much.

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[quote]debraD wrote:
Didn’t they use to say Lance has special mitochondria? =D

Back on topic, I’m not a hater, seriously I’m not! BUT I am SOOOOO fucking sick of crossfit. Seriously I cannot escape it in if I want to be involved with weightlifting and it is really grating on my nerves.

Not that there’s anything wrong with it. In fact it’s good, it helps people get fit and all that. They promote lifting. And working hard. And squatting to depth. But fuck it all, as a sport I just don’t give a fuck if I ever have to hear about it or a WOD or a fucking burpee ever again.

I hate baseball too but it’s not like it’s constantly in my face.

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Right, its become to thing “regular people” know about exercise, like P90x was 2 years ago. Meaning anytime someone hears that you work out you get asked “Do you do crossfit?” A few more years and instead of “whatcha’ bench?” it’ll be “whats your Fran time?”

Honestly, when its done appropriately, it can be a very valuable and effective training program. The gym I go to does cross fit and lays out their days like this:

-Strength Training (Some kind of heavy movement, like dead lifts/squats/press/clean/snatch done for relatively heavy weight)

-Assistance Training (usually the same lift or a variation of above, done lighter)

-WOD (the usual bullshit… Wall Balls, kipping pull ups, burpees etc…)

Of all the activities I know of, I have an easy time calling whoever wins the crossfit games “The fittest person alive” because they likely are. They are not “the best athlete” alive, but they surely will have an amazing blend of strength AND conditioning, whereas most sports focus on one of the two disciplines.

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The shark has been jumped.

And Crossfit HQ “Director of Programming” Dave Castro might still be trying to finish that deadlift.

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When in doubt…KIP THE SHIT OUT OF IT!!

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Crossfit historical perspective.

http://joshsgarage.typepad.com/Crossfit_White_Papers_--_Timeline.html

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[quote]UtahLama wrote:
When in doubt…KIP THE SHIT OUT OF IT!!

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That was hilarious. If I start kipping right now I might be that good before I die.

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[quote]SkyzykS wrote:

[quote]UtahLama wrote:
When in doubt…KIP THE SHIT OUT OF IT!!

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That was hilarious. If I start kipping right now I might be that good before I die.
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You better if you want to eventually be ELEEET.

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Utah: I wish they would update the list in that link, lot more crazy shit has gone on since :confused:

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[quote]UtahLama wrote:
Crossfit historical perspective.

http://joshsgarage.typepad.com/Crossfit_White_Papers_--_Timeline.html[/quote]

That was great.

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[quote]UtahLama wrote:
When in doubt…KIP THE SHIT OUT OF IT!!

Holy sheeite!!! Amazing. Best was the “fighting stance”. Thanks for posting

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That video is hilarious