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Originally Posted by Vancouver240sx
I believe having benchmark workouts are good to keep track of improvement and setting goals.
Im sorry I don't agree that just weights and running are enough to train for a 90 minute soccer game in mid field. The last 20 mins of the game are not an exercise in your physical abilities but they are mental. Crossfit workouts are the only ones I've ever done where I have to push myself mentally to complete them.
I am very interested in this discussion, and without a doubt agree with some negative points people have made. But this issue of form kinda bugs me because it is UP to you to seek out the correct form. So if YOU are personally really worried about it (like I am), you'll do everything to strive to do it right.
Rich
PS. SkinnyPupp I just think they should change the name of "Kipping pullups" to something else. It is a different exercise I believe. The kip ups are more about getting your hear rate going. imho
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But those workouts have absolutely no carry over to what you're training for. Again, I go back to my original point:
- If you're training for a specific sport, then do sport specific benchmarks. If I was training to be a sprinter, I'd care about how fast I could run, not the time I could do a workout in.
- If I was lifting, then my weights would be my benchmark.
If you can't push yourself mentally then it's a function of your own mental toughness, not a function of crossfit workouts. Example - you telling me that running 20 x 100m with 1 minute breaks isn't a challenge mentally?
The form thing is one, but Crossfit workouts and the general attitude of no pain, no gain lead to injuries when doing things like boxjumps as quickly as possible. What's more, the programming makes NO SENSE. Crossfit (last I checked, I may be wrong) completely does away with the idea of periodization and training cycles believing that you can push yourself all the time.
If crossfit was so great, why isn't it a common training regime for olympic athletes?
I maintain my position that crossfit is retarded.