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Old 12-18-2008, 07:15 AM
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Originally Posted by EricT View Post
I wouldn't recommend crossfit. There are some cool individual exercises you can choose but there is not real direction or organization to the philosophy. I didn't realize that Dave was recommending it..if he was..I'll have to disagree with him on that. For individual pieces of info..crossfit can be good..for the big picture it's a load of nonsense, imo.

I mean here you are trying to come up with a plan and once you spend a bunch of time looking into crossfit you'll find that it's "workout's of the day" (WOD) which are more or less frigging random. Random stimuli...random results.
I'm sorry but I should have been a little more specific in what I meant.
Yes Crossfit is a bit of a gimmick and they are as random as you get, WOD to be specific. What I meant was to use the PDF file that I posted as a workout template for more of the conditioning side with weights. Those workouts are more of a staple in some crossfit centers and they use the max reps you get or time it took to complete a workout as a tracker. You would have to look at what they do as a workout and see if it fit to your profile of lifting, i.e., endurance for a specific task, fighting. Or, if anything, take the principles of the workouts, i.e., complete in an amount of time or perform more reps in an amount of time. One good example is the Burpee clean and press I do, Note crossfit did not come up with this I found it on the internet and added a press movement and a workout method. I started thinking about how many I actually do in 5 one minute rounds and I realized that I wasn't as much as I thought so I started using different workout methods so I can get to 10 reps in a minute with a minute break, somewhat similar to one of the methods crossfit uses. Thus far making this workout a staple but using the some of the workout methods of crossfit, helps with my overall goal, which is endurance and being explosive.

I was just trying to get you started but I should have been more specific.. my bad, work has been owning me and I've been scatter brained. I hope this clarifies what I meant. Now discuss.
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