Jaggers wrote:Conor wrote:Jaggers wrote:
If you're truly interested and have specific questions about how it has helped me, then I would do my best to answer. So far, you have only stated that others disagree. I don't see how citing vague references to contradictory authority does anything but inspire debate. You have asked me to provide you with credible sources proving why my personal experience with CrossFit has worked for me. Again, I was simply sharing my personal experience.
Good luck to you, too.
How much more specific would you like me to get? I could go look up the page number, but it's also in the TOC in the book.
Conor wrote:Mark Twight would be one of them, and his TINSTAFL segment in Training for the New Alpinism shows his exploration into crossfit for mountain training.
LURE wrote:Crossfit does give you a strong, injury resistant body, and increases the efficiency of the cardiovascular system. So yeah, of course it will help people be physically fit and that will aid people. I do view it, though, as a weirdly contradictory type of fitness that is general in one sense, but at the same time very focused fitness in another sense - focused on the activity of crossfit itself, which I think is substantiated by the fact that there are crossfit competitions, and those guys are only good at crossfit, and I don't view the activity of crossfit as very transferable to other activities.
This is the misconception that harms so many people in endurance goals. The "cardiovascular system" isn't just breathing hard for long periods of time. Many view it as conditioning the heart and lungs. Since muscle fibers aren't created or destroyed in an adult human body the view should be taken that we are training the muscle fibers to be the kind we need them to be. That would be thin and covered in fat. Think of it this way...crossfit = the flightless chicken, with white meat for the breast, low in fat. Maffetone = duck, dark meat, greasy (fat). One can fly for short times, but mainly just pecks around the yard. The other can migrate 100's of miles.
While genetics can affect how well we are able to adapt, the underlying physiology doesn't change.