When lifting heavy deadlift your back curves no matter how hard you try. Not a bad thing..like all the certifiable PT's try to say otherwise
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When lifting heavy deadlift your back curves no matter how hard you try. Not a bad thing..like all the certifiable PT's try to say otherwise
In the last few years, I have decided to simplify, borrowing from the ideas of Henry David Thoreau. And so, I do fewer exercises, all of which are body weight, but most of which include added weight. Also, I limit my exercises to movements that have evolutionary relevance. Therefore, apart from calf raises, all of my other exercises are compound movements. I just don't think our early ancestors had cause for, say, curl-type movements in their day-to-day lives. As for lateral raises, I have said in the past that this must have been originally conceived as suitable punishment for high crimes.
I can push and pull in the horizontal and vertical planes. I'm a big fan of the vertical plane...
Not so much the horizontal plane. Dont care for nuance. Agree with you as usual.
1. But that is the BS part of CF. They invented efficient exercise when the exercise doesn't need to be efficient. The more resistance, the better. Sure, if you just go for the count you want efficient, but if you want to work your muscles, you want to burn energy.
2. One would think so but I have to disagree. My wife is a couch potato and she is healthy all the time. On the other hand I get injuries all the time. So couch potato beats exercises...
Get on youtube watch heavy deadlifting near physical limit...the back rounds and nothing can or should be done about it. the ligaments should be loaded pulling off the floor.
You get injured eventually throwing weights around in CF. Loading tissue with a weight should be controlled and methodical.1. But that is the BS part of CF. They invented efficient exercise when the exercise doesn't need to be efficient. The more resistance, the better. Sure, if you just go for the count you want efficient, but if you want to work your muscles, you want to burn energy.
2. One would think so but I have to disagree. My wife is a couch potato and she is healthy all the time. On the other hand I get injuries all the time. So couch potato beats exercises...
http://arthurjonesexercise.com/Bulletin1/Bulletin1.html
Lots good reading here!
Momentum does not make an exercise more efficient. It makes the exercise less effective. Efficiency means properly targeting muscle groups. Of course you should use as much resistance as you can safely use in proper form for a suitable number of reps. Exercise should be efficient so that you can get the most bang for the buck and then focus on recovery. If you are expending all manner of energy but not efficiently/sufficiently targeting key muscle groups to proper stimulation, then you will have compromised on both the point of the resistance exercise and your ability to recover from it.
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You guys keep focusing on the CF you see in competition which is basically making an assumption on a large thing from what you see in a 1% sample. In CF we do deadlifts, front and back squats, power cleans, power snatches, and benchpresses as a weight lifting element, not in a competition "do as many as you can". These are all Olympic lifts that anyone getting big would do in a gym. Stop looking at the competition and think that is a WOD if you have never been to a gym.
Why do you think a CFer is not doing Olympic lifts the same as someone in a gym? Because you have never been to a regular CF gym.
So rather than typical ET where you express an uninformed opinion based on one thing you have seen, try and and learn rather than generalize. After extensive warm ups we do specific olympic lift sets just like you would do in a regular gym (where funny how you think no one lifting on their own ever gets hurt).
I am not trying to convince you to do CF but stop saying stupid shit like you can never build muscle doing CF.
Also burpees are one of the best cardio exercises, it is no wonder many of you dislike them because they do suck but if you do them right, they also incoporate a few body weight exercises.
Cant watch a Peloton(bike) TV commercial without thinking I can just go out in the backyard and use the available rocks with creativity for better results.
I do like the crossfit concept. Reminds me a bit of the specific, event driven , workouts for the old school WSMan competitions(tires, heavy objects, etc...)
And , so what if you get injured. When we are younger we dont have the same fears and understanding of potential chronic injuries. It's funny to see this equipment snap, fail and break ragdolling participants who shake it off with only pride hurt. Live a little.
I do like the crossfit concept. Reminds me a bit of the specific, event driven , workouts for the old school WSMan competitions(tires, heavy objects, etc...)
And , so what if you get injured. When we are younger we dont have the same fears and understanding of potential chronic injuries. It's funny to see this equipment snap, fail and break ragdolling participants who shake it off with only pride hurt. Live a little.
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Pelton looks cool but I cannot just sit in one place riding (though I do the erg rower which is same concept)... I just prefer the upper body moving as well. Wish they had the Peleton concept with the screen and videos added to the rower.
What you just described is conventional weight training, why call it "cross fit" ?