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November 16 2011 21:45 GMT

#41

On November 10 2011 18:15 glurio wrote:
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Funniest xfit gif ever.

I would write more but i really only wanted to post this gif.

LOL I just saw this gif in a reddit thread and lol'd so hard ;p

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Freyr

United States500 Posts

November 17 2011 04:55 GMT

#42

On November 16 2011 09:08 Hurricane wrote:
do you have any references to show that fighters use crossfit? I'd assume they would do work outs related to their art(s) rather than some hybrid of cardio/weight lifting. That's how it worked for wrestling. Hell, I went to a D2(I think? I forget I want to say it was a D1 school but I can't find any good info on it but I'm lazy http://www.norwichathletics.com/sports/wrest/index) wrestling camp senior year of highschool and we were either in the weight room doing compound lifts or on the mat.

Also the heavy lifting stereotype is very ignorant.

BJ Penn apparently used to use it. I think I recall an interview saying he chose to abandon it as he felt it was insufficiently sport specific.

Sean Sherk's workouts (from those UFC promotional things before fights) also seem very crossfit-esque, though he incorporated many exercises which are not seen in crossfit.

CrossFit is some hybrid of cardio/weight lifting. It just so happens that they do a lot of cardio with weightlifting. I don't really know much about how universally applied this method is - I do recall Rhadi Fergoson (former olympic Judoka and D1 wrestler) referring to something of that nature in his training in one of his posts on JudoForum. I'm quite sure, though, that the notion of doing weightlifting (or bodyweight) circuit-type cardio is not new or unique to crossfit at all. (Incidentally, though, if you look through the daily workouts on the crossfit page, they do quite a bit of heavy lifting).

As for the guy who questioned the purpose of kipping pullups - I am no expert on these things (I suspect I am in good company), but it seems to me that kipping pullups require quite a bit of coordination with extensive development of power through hip-explosion (in addition to the metabolic demands incurred by high repetitions). It is easy for me to imagine that such an exercise would be useful.

Edit: The bottom of page 5 and 6 of the T-nation article someone posted (http://www.t-nation.com/free_online_article/sports_body_training_performance_investigative/the_truth_about_crossfit if you missed it) offer a defense of the kipping pullup)

Vitruvian

United States168 Posts

November 17 2011 22:16 GMT

#43

I know nothing about Crossfit and can't give an educated opinion about it, but oh my god. These videos are just too good not to share.

Petshop

Canada66 Posts

November 22 2011 17:52 GMT

#44

I've been doing CF for about a year and a half it's a tonnn of fun. It's incredible how much more in shape I am, and how much more powerful, and my overall endurance as well. Done correctly, you will see alot of improvement in your overall fitness.

However, I am at a good CF gym, with Coaches that are extremely concerned with proper technique and that keep themselves informed, and who plan their workouts based on what they want the members to develop. We also have Canadian Olympic coach that comes once a week to help us with our Weightlifting techniques.

For those that are interested in the sport, I recommend shopping around for one with a good atmosphere and community, because that will make your CF experience more fun.

Cheers

nemY

United States3119 Posts

November 24 2011 09:13 GMT

#45

On November 14 2011 07:40 decafchicken wrote:
Yeah I don't have a problem with CF, just listening the people who do it that talk like they ate the enlightened ones.

Yeah that's my biggest problem with it as well. A guy I know who is a huge douche does it and it irritates the hell out of me.

IMO it's a cool idea, but I think you should be at least beyond a beginner before doing it? If that makes sense. The workouts vary everyday so it's one of those things where you maybe shown an exercise, do it a few times with poor form and then not see the exercise for another few months. In my experience, that's not an effective way to learn an exercise.

Put it this way, I've been learning how to squat on-and-off (consistency will always be the devil of me I swear!) for the past 9 months and I'm still learning the intricacies of the squat (who would have thought it gets more challenging when the weight gets heavier right?). Imagine having never done squats, then doing them for one of your crossfit workouts and then never even seeing them until it's thrown into a CF workout 3 months later. Just not a great way to learn the exercise I think.

That said if the program gets you out of the house and working out at least, then you know what? It's better then nothing. I'm probably providing a very generalized idea of what the program is about but oh well.

On November 16 2011 08:46 Kickboxer wrote:
This is the kind of training most MMA fighters utilize. Seeing as their objective in life is to pulverize another highly jacked and trained individual into oblivion, it's a safe bet CF is very effective at developing functional strength and overall athleticism.

On the other hand, if you want to look like a tanned sausage who can hardly wipe it's own ass steroids and heavy weights are still the way to go XD

Sorry but I don't buy that at all. Most MMA fighters probably do training specific to their sport and CF is not specific to any sport.

AoN.DimSum

United States2983 Posts

November 24 2011 15:48 GMT

#46

Well it depends on what crossfit gym you go to. The place where I volunteered at had strength lifts first, then went into a circuit.

GreEny K

Germany7312 Posts

November 24 2011 16:18 GMT

#47

On November 06 2011 05:41 Therick wrote:
Man CF is so dumb, CF was invented so that girls could lift weights, cus if they just lift regular weights they will become jacked and hyuuge, therefore they invented cf where you still lift weights, but you wont gain sh.t on it cus the workout regime is retarded.

Also brb spine injures in your 20s cus of all the stupid f.cking kipping pull ups and squats and pulls with sh.t form.

How was he not banned for this...

I really wanna try CF, but it's hard to find a gym around me that supports it.

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