I'm hardcore into CrossFit and prefer it to bodybuilding isolation workouts any day. I began with bodybuilding workouts, you know the curls, bench, squats, machines, etc... But I saw more results in my strength, cardio, health, and especially my body within the first 3-4 weeks of CrossFit than I had in the past 2-3 months of bodybuilding workouts. I also like to use N.O. pre-workout products, and occasionally test boosters (I'm not into prohormones), which most true CrossFit people don't agree with. So that's why I'm asking here, which I don't even know if this is the right forum. Do any of y'all do CrossFit or some sort of modified CrossFit?
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Thread: Does anyone here do CrossFit?
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08-25-2011, 06:59 PM #1
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Does anyone here do CrossFit?
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08-25-2011, 07:19 PM #2
I did CrossFit for 1.5 years and while I lost 15 lbs, I never got the definition I was looking for. I got in great cardio shape, which I already was and my strength improved, but I'm still skinny fat. I have also been eating Paleo for about a year. I have swit he'd to the Conjugate CrossFit and I'm seeing better results. The problem I have with most CrossFit programing is that it is too random. Great program for conditioning, but not the best for adding muscle. Moat of the guys I know that have done or still do it, all have lost weight and leaned out and lost muscle.
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08-25-2011, 07:32 PM #3
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08-25-2011, 07:35 PM #4
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08-25-2011, 07:38 PM #5
I'm not a big fan of crossfit as your only training style. I do admire it for what it has accomplished on getting more of the general population interested in fitness, and getting them fit. Make no mistake, if you do crossfit right, you will get stronger and leaner, and may put on some mass. I personally only use a few crossfit principles and workouts in my training. An example of a principle I use is doing real world movements as opposed to only doing weights where you're moving the weight in a single plane and direction. Something I greatly disagree with is the cheating they do during some movements, like the wild kipping pullups they do. They say it's to get your body more coordinated and whatnot, I think it's dumb because if I'm ever hanging for my dear life from the edge of a cliff and trying to escape bad guys, I'm not going to be able to kip.
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08-25-2011, 10:27 PM #6
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08-31-2011, 07:52 PM #7
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Good to hear some people here have done/do it. My goal isn't to be ripped to shreds and look perfect, it is to be the best possible athlete I can be, which CrossFit is perfect for. I train in Jiu-Jitsu and MMA, and play lots of sports for fun and intramural so CrossFit isn't my ONLY workout, however I can definitely say I'm better at all of those because of CrossFit. I just don't like how they're against taking supplements, because I think they're phenomenal for increasing results.
I guarantee that CrossFit makes you MUCH better at most sports compared to bodybuilding, so it isn't making you just mediocre at multiple things.
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08-31-2011, 08:24 PM #8
I'll just leave this here:
Skip ahead to about 1:20 for the really hardcore training.
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09-03-2011, 09:59 PM #9
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09-04-2011, 05:20 AM #10
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