Olympian vs Pro Crossfitter | Can A Triathlete Compete With A CrossFit Athlete?
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- Can an Olympian compete with an elite Crossfitter? Heather takes on Jamie Simmond in a head-to-head battle in a game of HORSE in the gym! Triathlon transitions, 1km running, pull us, rowing & more, who can take the win?
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Both athletes were really good sports, not trying to prove a point. Heather could have programmed a 10k and Jamie could have brought out the barbell. I was most impressed that Heather managed to beat Jamie on a 2k row! Kudos - 7 minutes is a Crossfit time domain!
first: crossfit def has workouts thats way longer than 7 minutes.
second: rowing favors bigger and longer athletes. if they both have similar aerobic capacity, the taller would have a bigger advantage.
Heather, I reckon that's 4 pull ups more than most triathletes! Good idea, great effort, top content!
Thanks, I've built on it since then, needed the kick!
Loved this! Looked like you had so much fun. Amazing effort
It's just wonderful that Heather endured this, as I think that it was not that difficult to guess the outcome. But it was fun to watch; thank you Heather! The things that did surprise me were pull-ups, where Heather's performance was just superb, given that she hadn't been training it, and ski erg, where I would've expected her to perform a bit better, but I guess that the latter was too much on the sprint side.
Also, the transition race was a nice touch! Jamie putting shoes on before her helmet was certainly something that a triathlete would never do, given the no bike touching without helmet rule.
That was fun and awesome! 💪 Great video.
So much positivity in these comments. Love it!
Heather, love that you put the transitions in as well (about the only bit of triathlon that I don’t suck at)
Heather surprised me with the pull-ups. Very impressive! Most female endurance athletes, let alone retired one's, can't do any.
Thanks Graeme, surprised myself too!
Fun competition and good on heather for taking on a tough challenge to compete in strength against a strength athlete!
This was awesome to watch!!!
This is so much fun! ❤️💪🏼
Excellent video. Nice to see other disciplines. The wall walk, now thats what I got to try.
Wall Walks are great. They are generally considered to be a "scaled" movement in CrossFit so when it showed up in the Open they wrecked a lot of the pros because they don't do them. Wall walks are a good safe way to get the same stimulus you would get from handstand pushups or handstand walks but without the risks of those movements.
Love this - such lovely content, both are great sports!
that was so much fun to watch!
You did a great job Heather!!!! Most be proud.
You both were amazing, great job 💪👏
cool video, crossover episodes are awesome!
Woq! You did so amazing!!! Great job!
As someone who does CrossFit and dabbing into Tri - this is an exciting video!
Loved this video! Fun
Respect!! Good work good competition 💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻
I do OCR and train with triathletes often and it's funny I say the same..."I am not the best runner, or lifter but I am right in the middle." Great video!
Looking through these comments, and am ecstatic I see so many positive comments (most likely from endurance athletes) about this comparison, and giving the ladies kudos on their efforts. Too often, when CF is compared to another sport in a video, the fans of "the other sport" just deride CF without acknowledging the competitiveness it actually offers their respective sport.
CF and steroids go together like..
Huge Jamie fan great to see this video guys. Awesome effort n banter.
I think that is way beyond my comfort zone but looked like great fun, thanks ladies
Fun video! Heather was a great sport with no endurance competitions.
such a fun video!
Girls, you both were amazing! Great challenge!!!
Would have been interesting to see something like the 18.2 open workout: 1-2-3…10 reps of each dumbbell squats (with 2x35pound/15kg) and bar facing burpees followed by your max clean with a 12 minute time cap. I feel like this is a really good test of both endurance in terms of breathing capacity and max strength in one workout.
Crossfit and Triathlon are my favorite sports... I think I'm addhd lol can't concentrate on anything lol ... love this video !! Love you Jamie!!!!
Respect for these ladies!
Jamie's arms are insane!
Oh no!!! They've done a top gear and disproved that triathlon is the best 😂😂😂 great video, nice to see the difference between the endurance and power athletes.
Holy cow! The comments some of these people are putting out are ridiculous. Great job to both of you young ladies! Super positive, very funny, great vibe, awesome video.
having done both corssfit and Tri training, done right they will compliment each other. Crossfit Endurance is something to look at, as well as Hybrid Athlete training. I ran one of my faster 20miles running races off the back of Crossfit endurance workouts, plenty of rowing, sprinting and longer WODS 30-45min AMRAPs
This was pretty cool 👌
I loved the video, well done Heather for doing something outside your comfort zone! That is always a win. You should challenge Jamie again and ask her to take it a bit more seriously haha. She put like 75% effort on the rower and the runner. Nice rowing technique by the way ;)
This is amazing! My two loves crossing over ❤️
Two means balls😉
Awesome 2k rows of both ladies! Those are really good times for a 2k row for women.
I like crossfit after a fashion. I'm all for the exercises just not the timed aspect - by making it a race like event you ruin it. I would happily train all the crossfit workouts but instead of "as many as I can In a certain time" work till failure with strict (correct) form for as long as it takes.
You misunderstand the purpose of the timer. Look up: increased work capacity across broad time and modal domains. Research moving large loads long distances quickly. Understand the basic equation in physics for work.
@@TacticallyFitOfficial I assume A C4th comments is a reference to the well documented cases of amateur crossfit athletes sacrificing technique and form to go faster resulting in injury. You are correct the doing work more quickly involves more power. It is important to maintain proper technique. The professional crossfit athletes generally don't suffer from this problem (at least with barbell movements) but they are professional after all.
@@ice4142 that’s not even true dude. At gyms we coach strict first and muscle strengthening before we do the kip. Also sturdies have proven time and time again that the average person gets hurt no more than a regular gym goer. Lots of research out there. Also look into the ACSM/CrossFit lawsuit.
@@Sophianeykov exactly. Nailed it on the head. Mechanics, consistency, then and ONLY then intensity. Great comment
@@Sophianeykov but they don’t. When watching the rowing aspect that professional cross fit athletes under go their technique is atrocious. Really really poor which can result in injury.
Jamie is such a good sport!
They should have done swimming and biking as well.. great vid
2 of my favourite sports, loved the crossover!
Love love looove Jaime Greene/ Simmonds!!! So thrilled to see her. She missed this season of crossfit due to injury 😕 but here she is!!
Damn, nice pullups for both of you.
7:38 and 7:40 are respectable times for non-rowers women for a 2k!
Agree, a former collegiate rower myself, those are some seriously impressive times for non-rowers
Agreed!! Their 500m splits were around 1:54, which is solid for non-rowers.
Ha! Jamie didn't even look like she was trying that hard on the row and run and Heather was going all out.
The skiing one was style vs hulk smash mechanics.
Yasssss the kiwi! Love Jamie!
Please train with Eddie Hall next
Wall walks looks like a fun full body exercise! Going to try that and hope I don't hurt myself.
Just keep your back stable and don't arch. It is harder than it looks...good luck!
@@trent797 Yep, was going to say exactly that. Way harder than they look. 20.1 was tough!
Can’t help but be disappointed that a triathlete ducks the cycling part just because the cross fitter has been doing some miles 😐😔
for all the haters out there, 2 things to notice:
1: title is "can a triathlete compete with a crossfit athlete" and not "can a crossfit athlete compete with a triathlete"
2: they didn't touch a bar, no lifting, no heavyweights, no lightweights. which is basically what you do 70% of the time in crossfit.
so please shut up and enjoy the video.
I practice crossfit, I run, I bike and I swim and I love all of them, and neither of those disciplines are in my username, looks like someone in the comments hate crossfit, try it and shut up or enjoy what you do and shut up as well.
Love this comment
My two favorite sports: CrossFit and Triathlon. Good to see them together side by side. :)
Try to reach for Sam Briggs, she is an incredible Crossfitter and also a great triathlete. Also called as "The Engine".
I find it funny almost all crossfitters i know and also in this vid say they are in the middle of sports while they are definitely trained for short intensive bursts of training on an anaerobic level.
One of the girls is NATURAL.
This is insane, when did Crossfit made it to the Olympics?
I can't swim because my shoulder hurts. Does 16 pull-ups...
Pull-Ups don't stress the shoulder as much as swimming does
And shoulder presses, and they walk up on her doing cleans and they row...
It’s not BS. Jamie had to pull out of the CF season because of her shoulder. She’s a podium getter at the CF Games.
@Christi A Omg a crossfitter won against a Triathlete in a CrossFit competition?! You don't say! I'm surprised she barely squeaked by... Maybe if she's not lying about her shoulder next time and they do the swim, we make the runs longer, it would be fair.
@Christi A Huh, strange you're hinging so much of your own self worth on the performance of another. What a strange comment, how old are you?
Next, do a sprint dua/tri with her
Love this vid! Would love too see the boys take on one of the male pros as well!
If your ever coming done to Aus I would love the chance to do some challenges and catch up! I do CrossFit at a competitive level (but not pro) and have done a couple of Olympic triathlons with the goal of doing a sub 10 hour Ironman training 😊
Next.. tri v modern pentathlon
Jamie is a bit of a machine. Not that Heather is a slouch but that was impressive
I love Jamie, she is so good.
How about the reverse?
I was cringing when Jaimie did the wall walk. Once you dislocate your shoulder, handstands of any kind tend to push the bone right out of the socket.
GCFN = Global CrossFit Network
They could have done kicks in the pool lol both great athletes, just 2 opposite muscle fibers
As a crossfit guy that's been doing a lot more running to build my engine (and watching you guys to learn more about endurance work), this was fun to watch. I'd say Heather just needs some more strength work and she'd be a badass crossfitter.
It's obviously impossible to compare endurance and strength+speed sport disciplines, but here's what one of the top crossfitters said after finishing an IM: ruclips.net/video/o_sNG266EMA/видео.html It speaks volumes that he was able to complete it, but his one rep max'es must have gone down by 20% after this.
That crossfitter is on more gear than Rich Piana.
Its like comparing a bullterier with a border collie
Different bodies built for different things
A collie will outrun a bullterier all day but bullterier will rip a tyre apart
Haha, I thought you were going to say will rip the collie apart!
Border collies are smart dogs. They'll figure out a way to rip a tire apart. If my cattle dog can do it so can a border collie.
My border collie ripped all of my furniture apart...
My shoulders bad, so lets do pull ups
Pull ups mostly use the back muscles with some shoulder muscles involved
@@blakethingstad5052 I know...
What a great collab! Great sportsmanship and fun all round, well done!
Ok.....she says she can't swim due to dislocating her shoulder, yet can do pull-ups?
If only Jamie actually pushed herself haha. Few no reps on that rope climb to 😂😂
She wasn't even trying on the row and run. Didn't look puffed at all.
Jamie who?
Pro CrossFit era are overflowing with juice lol
they're drug tested all the time, especially Games athletes. Before & after every competition (which they have year-round)
@@acatonasnowboard21 if you think they are not juicing you’ve never worked out before lol
That shoulder excuse for not swimming is quite lame since she’s doing pull-ups and throwing weights over her head perfectly fine.
She’s a pro athlete and in rehab… she doesn’t need an excuse to not do something, you also clearly don’t understand the movements as the rotation, stretch and pull are different for all 😊
@@matthewbingham9583 actually I do know. And swimming is actually a perfect exercise to help rehab the shoulder, unlike kipping pull ups or snatches.
Yeah spot on fella
Its because every competitive crossfitters know how crap they are in swimming and the fact technique will take a long time! You will never see top crossfit athletes in the swim leg that can swim period! They don’t like swimming period. Since when did you see fast swimmers who are muscular. It is a lame excuse. If you can do pull ups and clean then your rotator cuffs are good for swimming. Dude in the comment section need to learn his anatomy 😂
I think GTNs intent was for this to be a fun competition with Heather wanting to go out of her comfort zone and doing something challenging for her. It's not like Jaime approached GTN to do the competition...
You probably could have taken her easily in any swimming thing. Most (but definitely not all) crossfit athletes are meh at swimming compared to people who train it
Jamie's shoulders are so nice.
So funny, Jaime "hurt her shoulder, so no swimming" but they walk up on her doing cleans, then they do bodyweight shoulder presses, rowing and pull-ups... Sounds like someone was scared of the fact that she can't swim for shit.
This challenge also suited the crossfitter, in that the run was a mile and everything endurance based was too short to actually be a test of endurance at all. It was a test of who is better at crossfit; a crossfitter or a triathlete/decathlete and frankly, Heather put up a better showing, relatively speaking, than Jaime.
How about next time the run is at least a 10k, you swim a couple miles and do a long, hilly bike ride?
guessing they didn't want to have to leave the gym to complete the game of HORSE. It seems like you are clearly biased towards the distance events, but I assure you that Jamie can swim very well.
You know they each got to pick the events right? Jamie could've picked something technical like a barbell lift or an exercise on the rings. Maybe you should rewatch the video, Jamie clearly didn't want to embarrass her to she cruised on the row and run so it wasn't a clean sweep.
Jamie could run 10k, swim a few miles, and bike hills a heck of a lot easier than Heather could C&J 205 lbs....or even 105 lbs.
Y'all got no idea how bad a 2km row can be and it shows
A 4:04 kilo is only a 6:33 mile pace it just goes to show that Ironman athletes are diesel engines
The air runners they were on are really hard work. The time on that is not comparable to the road
according to University of Essex School of Sport (published in the Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport) runners really do work about 30 percent harder on the curved, non-motorized treadmills. The runners perceived they were working an average of 27 percent harder when they ran on the curved treadmill, and physiologically, their symptoms matched: They consumed an average of 32 percent more oxygen and had 16 percent higher heart rates, 2.5 percent higher running cadence, and 38 percent worse running economy
@@Darlh123 Interesting, I have always wondered. The difference. I have never used one. Are they easier on the knees/joints etc?
Ok now , lets go biking, just. A 100k. The swim just 1 k, and run just 21k.
There is absolutely no comparison between an Olympian and a professional exersizer.
@Christi A Olympians are REAL athletes not posers prentending to be one.
@Christi A I love clowns like you because NO ONE cares about crossfitters. Unless you are a pro exerciser who do nothing but injure yourselves for time.
Heather, you cut your hair?
Don't get injured! Some of the examples I have seen of cross fit is downright scary.
Heather, crossfitters just take it to a whole new level with their weight lifting & gymnastics in addition to the swim/bike/run. The only way you could beat Jamie would be to have fencing and target shooting in the competition.
Anyone watch the CrossFit games crit? 😆😆😆😆 at least they try. Kind of like how I would look doing what they do.
Crossfitter vs cross dresser next video please
Endurance is what really counts. Heather can race for hours. That shows who can persevere.
That was not the point
Heather does not need the injury...
Triathlete vs crossfitter indoors on a bunch of anaerobic gym activities? It says a lot about how poor crossfit is that it wasn't HORSE to 0 in a bunch of activities made for crossfit. Every other activity should have been at minimum 30-minute endurance activities. Even a Sprint Triathlon contains more endurance than most people can handle without specific endurance training.
Don’t think you realised how basic those movements are in CrossFit terms? They are mainly beginner level stuff, not exactly the type of stuff that would showcase Jamie’s prowess
@@wleng You miss the point. CrossFit is an anaerobic hobby. Triathlon (even Sprints) are an aerobic activity. All of the activities done in this video are anaerobic, and none were aerobic. It has nothing to do with the complexity or simplicity of activity. Do the same things, just each one for an hour, and turn them into aerobic activities, then you will be on endurance athletes ground. Or take a classic crossfit workout and turn it into an aerobic activity and it will be won by the triathlete. E.g., the Murph might become: 13 mile run, 2000 supported pull ups, 4000 low weight chest presses, 5000 low weight leg presses, 13 mile run.
@@Shevock I was a triathlete before I started CrossFit so I am pretty sure I understand both sports well. Jamie loss the 1km run, 2km row and the transition. Neither 1km run nor 2km row are anaerobic activities and she was never going to win the transition. Even then she barely loss in the run or row. I am pretty sure a triathlete is going to be better than a CF athlete in any runs short of a sprint! Also, CF is not exclusively an anaerobic activities. When we test for strength or sprints, then yes they are anaerobic. Maybe you need to check what an anaerobic activity is. I think you might mean longer aerobic events. In any case, a CF athlete is going to easily win the extended Murph example you gave there. A triathlete can’t do that many pull ups and push ups full stop.
Also I don’t think you actually know what a CF Games athlete like Jamie does at the CF Games lol. A sprint triathlon? Lol I don’t think any Games athlete would even blink at that. Sure they won’t be as fast as Heather but she can’t deadlift 190-200kg either can she.
@@wleng You like to talk a lot.
Well, i think heather won on looks. I liked the transition part the most.
Absolutely not.
Did you make one where the criss fitter does triathlon? If not, then this is pointless.
Haha just say you can’t swim
guess what, first event in the next crossfit games will be swimming and paddle. She is a top tier crossfit athlete and already did similar events in past.
@@shakymc I saw the swimming event. Their technique was atrocious.
testosterone and steroids !!
15:60 Someone must watch GTN to learn how to run.... Next time: agreed with others, do Tri-sprint. And remember: crossfit is where you have to make repetitions as fast as possible doing them as wrong as it gets.
Take the L respectfully
your comments and firework videos are about the same quality :)
@@Tryguys1 Do you wet your pants like crossfitters do? And if not, do you consider gym idiocy as complete without peeing while squatting?
Don't remember you paying me for quality work, btw, and speaking of idiocy....
Competiting against a crossfitter at crossfit type stuff....and the fact that gal is sauced out of her mind cmon
Should have incorporated swimming and cycling. Everyone can/should be able to do triathlon specialisms.
Not everyone can do xfit tasks.
Unfair.