*Update: Greg Everett of Catalyst Athletics and Performance Menu has more to this Crossfit nonsense. While you are at this linked article, why not go ahead and do the workout Everett put up.
Recently, Crossfit affiliate, Greyskull Elite had a scathing piece he wrote titled, Why I Resigned My Affiliation With Crossfit and was met with much discussion, debate and controversy. Things had barely subsided and now we learn that Robb Wolf, one of the Crossfit “old-timers” and all-around good guys got canned amid a considerable amount of acrimony.
Some of the thing at issue is what Crossfitters should eat. How ridiculous! They favor the Zone, Robb prefers Paleo. That longstanding issue about quality control is that there is no quality control. Buyer Beware.
All I can say is I am glad I left Crossfit years ago. I train to escape the drama, kool-aid and the egos not immerse myself in it.
I do look forward to what Robb does and you can find out at robbwolf.com.
I was walking down the cyber-street, turned the corner and saw this cyber-skirmish with a former Crossfit affiliate, John Sheaffer of Greyskull Elite well underway.
Whether or not you are a Crossfitter, you’ll probably enjoy the post, Why I Resigned my Affiliation with CrossFit. It is well written and amusing. Be sure and put in you .02 worth.
Is your training random or structured? Charles Staley of staleytrainingsytems.com has an interesting post on the pros and cons of randomized (Crossfit-style) and structured, sport-specific type training and some ideas that you can use that fall between each.
Your training is going well. You are making gains. Lifts are going up and times are coming down. And you’re injury-free. Can it get any better? Of course it can. Here are some ideas.
Pull it, carry it or put it over your head. Those are the basic lifting movements. Deadlifting, one of the most, if not the most useful overall exercise is a pulling movement and there are many other variations and exercises that pull, like rows.
The flip side to that coin are pushing exercises, like military presses, push presses and jerks.
I just read where NFL Hall of Fame wide receiver for the Green Bay Packers, James Lofton will make his first visit to Green Bay’s famed Packers Fan Fest event. It brought back a good memory from my younger running days. I sometimes would run hill repeats up a beautiful grass hill overlooking Lake Michigan.
One sunny, hot summer day, I was hoofin’ it up the hill, thinking I am all that when the long-legged Lofton bounded up that hill and passed me like I was standing still. It was an awesome performance and today still a vivid memory. The man was an elite athlete and trained liked one.
Every sport, no every sector of our life is littered with cliches and “buzz-words”. Some of course, are much more annoying than others. Many started being cool but have a short shelf life and should just go away.
When it comes to lifting weights and training, people either do not warm-up enough or fatigue themselves by spending too much time doing it.
When I trained with Ori Hofmekler with his Controlled Fatigue Training, (CFT), there was no pre-training warm-up session because he said the hungry lion on the African savanna wouldn’t wait for me to finish stretching and neither would the thief at the ATM. I always thought that was what adrenaline is for-a free pass to by-pass the warm-up in order to save your ass!
In another guest post by Scott Brengel, C.S.C.S., Scott answers questions about injury rates in strongman training, Crossfit and strength training in general. I believe you will find Scott’s insights interesting and better, helpful to your own training, whatever that is.
I followed a recent thread over at Performance Menu about the idea of using strongman training as a type of GPP instead of Crossfit brand of GPP. The contention of the poster, quoting a Marine, was that some strongman training might be more suitable to what soldiers do regularly in the field.
I posed this question to pro strongman competitor, Scott Brengel who responded in this guest post.
