So crossfit takes a beating on here somewhat often, and I can understand that, but it’s not to say that NONE of the guys who do crossfit are strong.
This is Rob Orlando. I’ve trained with and competed against Rob in strongman, and he is one strong dude. As far as I know he’s around 200 lbs now, although he is looking JACKED in the video. All I know is, 15 250 lb front squat to parallel into pushpresses and 15 500 lb deadlifts in 11 minutes sounds pretty insane to mean, and I must be outweighing him by 30-40 lbs, if not 50 right now.
That guy is ridiculous.
I’m sure he was strong and built up a good base of strength before he did Crossfit.
Now on the other hand Crossfit probably helped him with his work capacity which allows him to do what would be a max strength workout for most and perform it as a strength/endurance circuit.
I used to think Crossfit was a joke but now that I have seen what it does for guys in the military it seems like a viable conditioning system to me. It probably won’t make you strong in the max effort sense but it does seem like it increases strength/endurance-GPP enough that you can do more with weight in a shorter amount of time.
I’m sure if you took two guys who had the same deadlift maxes and one guy just worked out on a 4 days split and the other did Crossfit type routines in addition to his regular schedule the second guy could rep out quicker and with shorter rest periods than the first guy. He probably would have a lower BF% as well. So I believe Crossfit is good for work capacity which is particularly important to some groups.
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I’m sure with your strongman stuff your strength/endurance has gone up considerably which in turn could help you in the weight room.
I do crossfit 4 days a week and strength training 5. they love me because I woop ass, but I was strong way before I started crossfit, no one is saying crossfit got him that strong. But crossfit will make you stronger then the average bear, because the average bear is grafted to his couch eating a lean cuisine for dinner, pint of ice cream for a snack, and 3 pieces of pizza before bed to stave off the catabolic effects of not eating…
Orlando is a freak. After seeing him destroy a thick bar clean and press a 365lb axle (as a LW) I’m pretty sure he could be successful at whatever he wants, whether it be strongman or crossfit.
There’s also a video of him doing King Kong that’s pretty sick. King Kong is a crossfit workout based around:
1 Deadlift at 455lbs
2 Muscle-ups
3 Squat cleans at 250lbs
4 Handstand pushups
done for 3 rounds for time. Apparently Rob saw a video of a guy doing this workout in 7:xx and decided to do it twice in that time frame. When you think about it, it’s kind of disgusting.
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There’s also a video of him doing King Kong that’s pretty sick. King Kong is a crossfit workout based around:
1 Deadlift at 455lbs
2 Muscle-ups
3 Squat cleans at 250lbs
4 Handstand pushups
done for 3 rounds for time. Apparently Rob saw a video of a guy doing this workout in 7:xx and decided to do it twice in that time frame. When you think about it, it’s kind of disgusting.
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Anthony and Josh both were strong as bulls prior to happening upon Crossfit. I recall that Anthony follows the WOD’s off and on while Josh doesn’t at all other than to try out a new workout ever once in a while like in the video.
They are both advocates of Crossfit but they also advocate getting strong, Anthony comes from a PL’ing background and competes still I think, while Josh’ training is geared more towards Olympic weightlifting.
Rob Orlando owns his own gym and is not a CrossFit affiliate. He is/was a lightweight strongman competitor. He’s just a strong guy who can beat full-time CrossFitters at their own game.
Yeah. I used to pray in the church of Crossfit. When I saw the King Kong video, I had already started reading T-Nation and was in the process of being deprogrammed. I aspire to combine that type of strength with his inhuman work load but realize now that it will never come from CrossFit.
I’m all about metabolic conditioning over varied modalities but CF has some explaining to do; to the doubters that claim the workouts are undirected, “Coach” replies,“shhh. Crossfit doesn’t work for people who ask questions.”
