Crossfit (Page 2)

Wait until tomorrow......we'll need help on a Friday.

One of those actually popped up earlier in another forum here. Tri tubulars vs clinchers instead.

Really depends on the box.

If someone were to stumble into ST they would find a bunch of elitist pr!ck triathletes. Of course we are not all that way.

My brother in law works full time for a CF gym and it is a very welcoming place and they spend a lot of time on form and doing things the right way before adding weight. I may get into someday when the tri thing wears off. For now it is a bit too spendy and I enjoy cycling the most so I will stick with tri for now. 

A 4:15 mile at 220 with a 700 lb. deadlift?  I'd have to see it.  I know there are freaks......but that's pushing it.

One of my best friends owns a Cross Fit gym.  I have been there several times observing.  It's very intense and this group is very into it.  However, I think they push themselves past the point of effective strength training and into an area that is very dangerous.  The struggle to get 1 or 2 more reps in regardless of proper form scares me.

Also, I looked on YouTube for "CrossFit Fails" and I won't be one of those guys.

to each their own.

I think that's right, but there are also a lot of people who do want to get faster at triathlon, and the experiences of those who have been around the sport for awhile are part of the reason they are here.  There is room for everybody.

Yeah I'm not buying that.  

Alex Viada is fairly well known across the fitness world.  My impression is that he is quite the genetic outlier.  That said, I'd question how close together in time his 4:15 mile and 700 lb deadlifts were.  If you told me he did them a year+ apart, sure, I'm buying it.  If you said they were within days of each other, I'm a bit dubious.

LIAR!!!!!!!!! 

Fixed that for you.  

I agree with many of Ben's comments above.  Especially the ones I've bolded.

Despite the CF studio right down the street from my personal training studio being one of the better ones for having knowledgeable trainers, I still have clients come to me from them after getting injured.  I have one right now who spent a few days in the hospital with rhabdomyolysis apparently caused by her participation in CF.

I would take it a step farther than Ben's comment about being careful and mindful in checking out CF gyms.  I'd go as far as saying even after checking them out carefully, if you do decide to participate in any Extreme Conditioning Program (ECP), such as CF, check your ego at the door, and ease your way into the program, even if you think you're already very fit.  BTW, there is a difference between ECP's like Crossfit and other High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) programs.

Here's another reference regarding ECP's that may be helpful to read before starting such a program:  http://www.unm.edu/~lkravitz/Article%20folder/ExtremeConditioning.html

Originally posted by bcagle25

Originally posted by SeeVee

Originally posted by bcagle25

Originally posted by BradyFinney I'm trying cross fit in addition to my triathlon training. Any thought, suggestions, and/or warnings?

If you are going to ask about CrossFit do not listen to anyone that has never done CrossFit, many misconceptions and myths out there that I am seeing repeated in this thread, lots of blanket statements being thrown around here. If anything, you should go along the line of using CrossFit or any strength work as an ENHANCEMENT to your training, not a SUBSTITUTION. Also be very careful and mindful in checking out a CrossFit gym, some are good, some are bad, its the same concept as finding a coaching. Drill them with question, learn their thoughts, background, how will they get YOU to become more DEVELOPED.

And if yoy are going to ask about suicide, dont ask anyone who hasnt blown their brains out yet. Two things, for sure, about CF: 1) its a great way to get injured 2) CFers get their panties in a bunch when you criticize CF.

Care for me to talk about all the "gluten-free" triathletes that don't even know what gluten is?

Oh......hell yeah!!! 

Originally posted by bcagle25  ...Care for me to talk about all the "gluten-free" triathletes that don't even know what gluten is?

Pure awesomeness!!  

Can we also talk about the pundits extolling the virtues of only ingesting things that are "all natural" and how anything man made is pure evil?  You know, the ones who don't seem to understand that arsenic and poison ivy are natural and antibiotics are man made.  

I've had the smoker going since 9 this morning.  I don't know much about crossfit, but I've been sitting on my gluten, next to the pool, drinking beer all day. 

I'm not worried about injury, but my underwear could bunch up before this is over.