I’ve been doing Crossfit for a little while now and with making some minor diet changes (i.e. ZERO regular soda, cutting down diet soda-drinking to almost zero, etc…) I’ve dropped 13 pounds in the last 5 weeks. It’s not quite enough to notice in how my clothes fit, but for sure when I look at myself in the mirror I can see some weight coming off my midsection and that’s a good thing for vanity, if nothing else.
I did CrossFit for most of last winter with a training buddy who was getting ready for a federal 1811 gig. The owner of our local box generously extended the LEO discount to me as well.
Once my friend left for his new job, I was faced with regular CrossFit rates and dropped it. I really miss it. One of my CrossFit instructors just started teaching “CrossFit” classes at my regular (municipal) gym but lacking the rings and weights, it is definitely CrossFit Lite. Still, I enjoy the workout.
Good for you for dropping some lbs! Keep at it.
Good work! Keep it up.
I just completed my first crossfit workout today.
I played baseball throughout high school and conditioned with strength coaches but really haven’t done too much now that I’m in college, just participate in all the intramural sports. I knew I was “out of shape” but I felt like it wouldn’t be too hard to get back to the swing of things. I’m 6’0" 182lbs and am not fat or muscular. I’m by no means unhealthy. I was even training for a triathlon the whole month of june but I got off track. I eat well and bike regularly so I went today knowing for sure I would be slacking compared to the others but was sure I could at least hang.
Holy shit balls.
I damn near passed out on the warm up! After doing some of the exercises someone was going over with me the proper way to do a dead lift and all of a sudden I got dizzy, light headed, nauseated and everything went white. That feeling you sometimes get when you are giving blood. I stumbled to the ground and just lied there until I could see again. I was skeptical about continuing because I felt like hell but I continued with the WOD which was “tabata” I think or something similar sounding. We finished with a 400m sprint and I was about a minute and a half behind everyone by that point. A girl even beat me. Thats not happening again.
It was intense for sure and sucked complete ass during the actual workout but it’s strangely fun. I feel like once I get past the two week mark and start to see improvements, my motivation level with surely go up but I’m planning on misery until then.
On to tomorrow…
CrossFit is - by far - the best workout I’ve found short of submission wrestling.
Again. Faster!
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i like throwing it in for cardio between my gym days. I just cant seem to get away from the typical weightlifting.
I am glad I invested in the Level 1 Cert Course. Most tiring 2 days that my short term memory can remember.
sadly the price of your local box seems to increase slowly, getting a military discount isnt even much of a discount these days.
I fail to see how this is better than running/biking days mixed with serious weightlifting days. The downsides are that most of the weightlifting besides traditional squat/deadlift that I see the crossfitters at my gym doing are either ineffective other than for cardio or dangerous to ligaments and joints. To each his/her own I suppose but I dont get it. Caveat: the gym I work out in has about 20-30 crossfit people I see on a regular basis, only two are muscular and in shape looking, they happen to both work at the gym and can work out on the job. Everybody else is either out of shape looking and trying to get into shape or for the ones I have seen doing this for over a year, are merely skinny without what I would consider a muscular build.
I think its more of a functional fitness routine rather than glistening beach body workouts.
There are about 15 people at the gym I went to and the guys there aren’t ripped but more toned and lean. You can also tailor the workouts to fit what you’re looking for.
Crossfit is an approach to strength & conditioning and “all-inclusive” or well-rounded fitness, not Gold’s Gym, Venice Beach, Mr. Universe type bodybuilding.
Crossfit workouts often incorporate high intensity, high repetition barbell work to simultaneous train all metabolic pathways (phosphogenic, glycolytic, and oxidative).
Try “Daniel” (30x 95# squat cleans, 30x pullups, 800m Run, 3 rounds) or “Fran” (21-15-9 reps of 95# front squat to push press and pullups) against the clock and against a group of peers and see how “ineffective” it is.
I love crossfit, been doing it for a couple years now. People often ask me what I’m training for. I think it is all sumed up on my favorite crossfit t-shirt : Crossfit - Training Not To Suck At Life.
What’s dangerous to joints or ineffective about cleans, snatches, thrusters etc?
Have you tried it?
There’s a reason a lot of mil and le persons have adopted it. There fight isn’t a 12 mile bike and 3x5 squats.
There are IMO 2 versions of Crossfit right now. One not available at your average gym yet they run classes. The other is totally BADASS and will get you into great shape.
The two seals at my gym don’t do it, but they are a little older, maybe to you they don’t know any better. I have good joints for the most part except my shoulders. I want to stay in shape and look good well into old age. My wife (multi certified trainer ) agrees with my philosophy. To keep lifting and working out I to old age like Draper, I’ll follow an approach that keeps my mid 30s joints in the same or better shape than they are now. I won’t go down the path of many others ho try this and try that only to develop deep tissue scars and muscle tares that prohibit their continued training. But hey, if you want to crossfit it’s your body. I am no suggesting it won’t get you on shape and ready to move loads agressively and in akward ways, because it will. But it’s relatively inefficient for the time it takes and is relatively dangerous compared to other types of training. You mentioned 3x5 s. I don’t dont work that routine either for the same reasons. And yes, I have tried that and crossfit. Have you tried an approach like in Mcrobberts book?
i have to politely disagree with this. See, I find it to be quite the opposite, but maybe I’m just not familiar with the type of training you are, so keep that in mind. I used to weightlift exclusively and almost never run, sans a 10minute light treadmill jog. I benched 270, and at the time, thought I was in good shape.
Now I haven’t touched a weight (except kettlebells maybe a dozen times) for over two years. I’ve only been working for the past 12 months doing Crossfit/Sealfit type workouts, and I feel like I am in better shape than I ever was. Just for giggles, I tried the bench the other day, and it was a huuge struggle to manage 200pounds.
Compared to my weight training days I feel more agile, stronger, more flexible, more explosive, have more stamina and endurance, run much better, I’m less prone to injuries and I recover much faster.
Of course it may be something about the way I weightlifted, but in my personal experience, Crossfit/SEALfit kicks my ass much faster and is more time efficient, and has also caused less injuries than my normal weightlifting did. YMMV.
Pretty cool!
Nice practical example of what physical exertion can do to accuracy.
Kudos!
“weight lifting” or “weight training” (two words) is for bodybuilding/body modification (cosmetics) and/or strength training
“weightlifting” (one word) is a COMPETITIVE SPORT of Power = force*distance/TIME
Their respective aims are entirely different.
SEALfit, GYM Jones is legit. It takes me several crossfit workouts…usually. And a 15-20 mile run
Once my friend left for his new job, I was faced with regular CrossFit rates and dropped it. I really miss it. One of my CrossFit instructors just started teaching “CrossFit” classes at my regular (municipal) gym but lacking the rings and weights, it is definitely CrossFit Lite. Still, I enjoy the workout.
One of the thing if you do like crossfit workouts you can go to crossfit.com for different workouts, you can even see videos on how to perform some of the exercises correctly. One of the things I like about it is that it’s different and brings a lot of variety to “gymtime”.
Also with a moderate understanding you can develop your own WOD’s (workout of the day), if the ones from the site get boring or if say you can’t perform some of the movements due to injury.