[quote]Robert P. wrote:
Crossfit1 wrote:
Try “doing a structured deadlift program and running now and then”.
The deadlift is good for your weight, but a 5 and a half minute mile? I was doing that in middle school without training for it. Also, most people on a bodybuilding board will probably be unimpressed by your “fighting weight” of 161 pounds.
That said, the problem most people here have with Crossfit is probably the lack of a clear progression method.
If you’re doing olympic lifts one day, running the next, then swimming or doing kettlebell work, it’s harder to imagine how you can add poundage to your lifts than if you have sessions that you can compare directly (i.e., my upper body day this week will be the same as next week, just that next week I will add reps or weight to each lift, which is clear progression).
However, I see disregarding Crossfit completely, as many people here seem to do, as wrong. Many people doing it are now in the best shape of their lives, and that has to count for something.
Also, please don’t see this post as a personal attack. I just wanted to state that this is mostly a bodybuilding board, and I doubt we will ever see highly successful bodybuilders train by Crossfit principles.
Additionally, if you check other threads on this board, you will see that people doing curls in the squat rack, not using full ROM, and having spotters that do more work than they are doing are ridiculed as well.[/quote]
Robert
That’s the point, I/we don’t won’t to do a structured deadlift routine, I am well aware that if I specialized that I would lift more!!!
And to say that when you were at school you ran a 5.30min mile is a redundant statement, I am talking about today.
I was giving an overview of the broad ability that the crossfit methodology can give a committed individual, just as a specific bodybuilding routine will give a committed individual muscular size.
“and I doubt we will ever see highly successful bodybuilders train by Crossfit principles.”
And the above Robert, is to be frank, obvious.
I train for the whole spectrum of athletic abilities, so I will never be huge/super strong or a super quick marathon runner, but the crossfit methodology allows us to do it all at any given time.
Also I do not take it as a personel attack even though the title of the thread would lead one to think otherwise.
It seems that the rest of the fitness world has a problem with crossfit not the other way round?
I think that we all should just find what we like and that should be the end of it. But the main topic was about idiots who impede others training time, and that is unacceptable no matter what side of the training fence you are on, agreed?
