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Hmmmm, weighted lunges, weighted squats, step-ups, box jumps. Sounds like a lot of stuff CrossFitters do....
Sounds like a sports injury surgeon's dream patient. Put them on that kind of regiment, and we'll see you in five years for your first knee surgery, another five for the second knee surgery, and in ten years later, we got ourselves one guaranteed hip replacement.
Sounds like a sports injury surgeon's dream patient. Put them on that kind of regiment, and we'll see you in five years for your first knee surgery, another five for the second knee surgery, and in ten years later, we got ourselves one guaranteed hip replacement.
I'm pretty sure Usain Bolt has been training for much longer than 5 years and I'm equally sure that he hasn't had any knee surgeries yet.
Sounds like a sports injury surgeon's dream patient. Put them on that kind of regiment, and we'll see you in five years for your first knee surgery, another five for the second knee surgery, and in ten years later, we got ourselves one guaranteed hip replacement.
Pretty sure you made a thread asking question about general physical fitness. So, in no way are you qualified to pass judgement on this type of training regimen.
You work directly with professional athletes? Great! Ask them why they don't do CrossFit, then. Boom. You've got the answer to the question that you asked.
Easy, peasy.
First off, it's the trainers that I know, not the athletes (although I know some of them too). Second, my question was meant to be pretty rhetorical.
First off, it's the trainers that I know, not the athletes (although I know some of them too). Second, my question was meant to be pretty rhetorical.
Really?
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Originally Posted by Bosco55David
So again, my question becomes "why aren't athletes actually doing Crossfit?" My personal opinion of Crossfit is well known, but I would be curious to know the answer there.
Doesn't sound very rhetorical to me.
So, which pro or college athletes do you know? What reasons did they give you for not doing CrossFit?
It would if you looked at it in the context of Lao's post. Either way, if it wasn't clear then, it should be now.
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So, which pro or college athletes do you know? What reasons did they give you for not doing CrossFit?
You must have missed the part about the trainers, right? The two I got to spend the most time conversing with were Alan Aragon and Rich Tuten, but there have been others at different levels that I've met. They are certainly the authority, not the players, although living where I do I have known plenty of them as well.
...You must have missed the part about the trainers, right? The two I got to spend the most time conversing with were Alan Aragon and Rich Tuten, but there have been others at different levels that I've met. They are certainly the authority, not the players, although living where I do I have known plenty of them as well.
Nope, didn't miss it at all. However, you also said:
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Originally Posted by Bosco55David
First off, it's the trainers that I know, not the athletes (although I know some of them too). Second, my question was meant to be pretty rhetorical.
Since you asked specifically about why the *athletes* don't do CrossFit in your earlier post, I was trying to stay on topic.
So, then, how about the trainers you know, Aragon and Tuten? Why do they say they don't train their athletes that way?
Chad Pugh is the S&C Director at Tennesee Tech - MS, CSCS, SCCC, USAW, CrossFit Level I - he obviously endorses CrossFit.
Then there is also Eric Burkhardt, 22 year vet of D1 coaching and one of the first people to ever be CSCS certified and also a USAW certified coach. He endorses CrossFit, too.
Like almost everything in the fitness world, there are people who like it and people who don't.
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