Steve Magness has a go at Crossfit

thirtyfoot

Love these debates when the athletic coaches have a go at the fitness professionals when they feel the fitness professionals are encroaching in on their patch.

http://www.scienceofrunning.com/2012/01/crossfit-endurance-tabata-sprints-and.html

This is a big discussion at all levels of athletics at the moment, had one with a coach of one of our brightest athletes during the week on a similar theme.

Three steps to making money in fitness:

1 - Identify an age old athletic practice
2 - Give it a fancy new name, preferably an acronym
3 - Get a website

TFBubendorfer

thirtyfoot wrote: »

Love these debates when the athletic coaches have a go at the fitness professionals when they feel the fitness professionals are encroaching in on their patch.

When the crossfit guys seriously claim that Ryan Hall would run faster with their CFE training than the training he's been doing so far then the coaches have every right to have a go.

nerraw1111

I reckon crossfit will kick off big time in Ireland fairly soon. There’s a big crossfit studio on the quays near Sir John Rogerson’s quay.

I follow Innov8, the fell running shoe, on Twitter and a lot their tweets are now about Crossfit. They are even sponsoring crossfit athletes and last month they launched the “World’s first ever crossfit shoe.”

Some of the crossfit championship clips on youtube are hilarious. Each to their own though. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItDWedJpwpw Seems throwing a tennis ball is how you measure the fittest on earth.

Krusty_Clown

Yes, but how far can Ryan Hall walk on his hands? :rolleyes:

RayCun

The trouble with making snarky remarks about racewalking and triathlon is that it leaves you nowhere to go when someone brings up the "ride an exercise bike then swing across monkey bars then throw a tennis ball and run 100m carrying kettle bells" games.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FC2ulKCbu5g

griffin100

I thought that that Annie Thorisdottir had a secret weapon strapped to the side of her leg.....until I seen her throw the tennis ball.....she's all woman alright.

Maybe we could add tennis ball throwing to the SBR Challenge?

shels4ever

nerraw1111 wrote: »

I follow Innov8, the fell running shoe, on Twitter and a lot their tweets are now about Crossfit. They are even sponsoring crossfit athletes and last month they launched the “World’s first ever crossfit shoe.”

You follow a running shoe on twitter? If i find out my kayanos have been tweeting when they should be resting i'll be very angry.:D

Lock

Great article, love Magness's scientific approach. Crossfit is such a joke, if this video clip is representative of most crossfit gym sessions, I don't understand why anyone would pay out of their pocket for unsupervised amateur coaching. Better to do 40 minutes of hard specific strength work than spending an hour and a half doing 'random exercises' like Magness put it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDDyxXyf6UU

thirtyfoot

shels4ever wrote: »

You follow a running shoe on twitter? If i find out my kayanos have been tweeting when they should be resting i'll be very angry.:D

Running shoes that go on Twitter have lost their sole.

RacoonQueen

Lock wrote: »

I don't understand why anyone would pay out of their pocket for unsupervised amateur coaching.

There is nothing amateur about crossfit coaching if you're going to the right place.

Sacksian

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-j3RoNBscY

donothoponpop

thirtyfoot wrote: »

shels4ever wrote: »

You follow a running shoe on twitter? If i find out my kayanos have been tweeting when they should be resting i'll be very angry.:D

Running shoes that go on Twitter have lost their sole.

Their name is mud anyway, no need to put the boot in.

BeepBeep67

thirtyfoot wrote: »

Running shoes that go on Twitter have lost their sole.

I've heard their tweets are tongue in cheek!

myflipflops

Krusty_Clown wrote: »

Yes, but how far can Ryan Hall walk on his hands? :rolleyes:

Well, Hall is saying that he is coached by God at the moment so I guess it's more a question of how fast he can walk on water.