CrossFit Style Training with Stage 4

[josienj]

Hello All,

My trainer has peaked my interest in CrossFit training. A simplistic definition of cross fit, you complete a series of exercises back to back before taking a break. When you become really good at this, there is no break.

To satisfy my new found interest in this style of training he suggested I perform my Stage 4 in this manner. The A exercises in both A and B workout I perform normally, but the remaining exercises I loop through all before taking a break. My break is 1 to 1 ratio between workout time and rest time. For workout 1 my times were 4:50, 4:02, and 3:40. For workout 2 I was closer to 3. I then threw in the body weight matrix, which has me hooked, at the end of workout 2. I've seen great progress with the BWM, in the beginning I couldn't even get through one time without stopping! Today I finished closer to two minutes.

I would like some thoughts on this. Am I nuts? I am wondering if anyone else tried this with their workout and what kind of effect this may have on my results?

I felt good overall and this method kept my heart rate up the entire time.

Jo

[cdkrug]

I'll use Crossfit's METCON workouts for my intervals to mix things up. So long as you stick to moves you're comfortable with, it's probably okay for that.

But it's a VERY different training scheme with a very different goal than Alwyn's workouts.

My Not One Bit humble opinion would be to complete NROL4w, subbing Crossfit METCONS for interval days (which they almost are), before moving trying the full-blown Crossfit.

It's on my list of things I'd try if they ever open an affiliate close to here.

[josienj]

Thank you. I'll take a look into which METCON routines I can do instead of my intervals then.

Regards,