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Originally Posted by coach hale
Circuit training is a hot topic in the fitness industry. Many fitness and internet gurus promote circuit training as the best all around fitness training method to maximize all around fitness with one workout. There are companies who have devoted all of their business efforts into spreading the gospel of circuit training. Needless to say, this information is incorrect and represents BS at it's highest level.
Thanks,
Jamie Hale
www.maxcondition.com |
My two questions about CF are: (1) what's original about it? (2) what training effects can be had from it that can't be had from another version of cross training?
In the 80s, I used to do what people called giant sets with sprints. I would so something like rack pulls, dips, leg press, and sprints in the parking lot. Should I have named in Barbie and gotten rich?
These days, I will do chins (real chins, not that BS injury in the making "kipping" things CF favors...), incline dumbell presses, and front squats for higher reps with minimal/no rest and 5 mins of HIIT on a stair stepper, for 3 cycles.
Or, I will do Prowler pushing, rope climbing, and tire flipping. I named it "Will."
Is this Cross Fit? If I name it Bob, can I sell it? Cross Training has its place for sure, CF, which is 100% another version of cross training, can also have its place, but there's no doubt in my mind there's better choices for cross training that does not include high rep O lifts, kipping pull ups, etc.
This aint rocket science gang. Sure, if CF gets more people involved with exercise, great, I'm all for it, but every time you get a group of people to do something, they seem to form into a mob of morons who will then claim their "system" is the only one true system (visions of HIT here...) and make it unbearable for the rest of the world who has to deal with these insufferable sheep...I mean people....
