What I like about intensity, is that it sweat delivers me to greater intensity & results. My athletic ego enjoys the results that yesterday(s) intensity gives me, today. As I explore my own version of intensity and furthering my physical capabilities, I am choosing to ignore the societal jail cell known as "Oh you're older now, you'll see". I do see. My choice to engage in intense physical exercise is the action that allows me to follow many of you, down a path of heightened physical abilities, as I do indeed get older. A New Hampshire license plate said it well. NVRQIT.
So what about varying intensities to maintain longevity of someone’s physiological peak and not run them to the ground which can adhere even more health problems?
Adam, intensity doesn’t necessarily mean 100% exertion. Most days I encourage my athletes to work between 70-90% and save those maximum efforts for once every week or two. Relatively high intensity can vary from day to day, but it’s typically gonna be more challenging and more rewarding than jogging on a treadmill for 30 minutes. Also, what someone else said, making sure you recover properly is important, and overtraining typically occurs from too much volume rather than intensity. This is why my athletes can do “Fran” or “Grace” or “Amanda” and, while they might be fatigued for a couple of hours, they’re gonna feel much better the next day than if they did a workout like “Murph.” As Glassman says, “Be impressed by intensity, not volume.”
Has he just explained the problem with calling the games athletes the fittest in the world. The games set the weights, what if they set them above the level a lot of these guys can do, or indeed decreased the weights, with the decreased weights a smaller, lighter athlete would easily beat a games athlete in the athletic side of things and keep up or stay close to them on the weights.
Correct. The events in the crossfit games dictate who wins to a large degree. However, it appears the events are getting more extreme each year. Examples, longer endurance based events, heavier strongman/ max rep events, more events in a single day, a larger variety of odd objects and implements, obstacle courses etc. So it appears they are becoming better at sorting people out who can't perform well at all types of events. This differs greatly from the open competition because the open has remained largely the same each year and is very predictable. The same exercises appear almost every year and about 70% of events last 7-14 minutes and about 20% last 15-20 with a few exceptions.
timothysnow5 you could just as easily say that the open has the same problem. Again a smaller athlete would have problems with the weights and Max weights that are set in pretty much each event. If the weights we're set relative to the person's bodyweight, you would have different people making the regionals and games and it would really show who the fittest person is, not just who is the fittest person that (in the men's category) weighs over 80kg or 178lbs.
@daveaglasgow you only mention weights. What about gymnastics or monostructural movements? You can bias anything to favor various body types, but the entire purpose of the game is to vary the stimulus to challenge all the ten general skills equally (strength, stamina, endurance, flexibility, power, speed, coordination, agility, balance, accuracy) while pushing these incredible athletes to their physical and mental limits. If programmed correctly, the most well-rounded person should come out on top, which as CrossFit defines is the fittest person - the person with a “broad, general, and inclusive fitness.”
One of the more clear and concise explanations I’ve seen on this channel. He’s a very good instructor.
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Awesome Margaux Rogue in the back there
What I like about intensity, is that it sweat delivers me to greater intensity & results. My athletic ego enjoys the results that yesterday(s) intensity gives me, today. As I explore my own version of intensity and furthering my physical capabilities, I am choosing to ignore the societal jail cell known as "Oh you're older now, you'll see". I do see. My choice to engage in intense physical exercise is the action that allows me to follow many of you, down a path of heightened physical abilities, as I do indeed get older. A New Hampshire license plate said it well. NVRQIT.
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push yourself and you get results... surprising they have to tell people this, it should be pretty obvious
So what about varying intensities to maintain longevity of someone’s physiological peak and not run them to the ground which can adhere even more health problems?
if you run someone in the ground its not because of the intensity but a lack of recovery.
A good coach athlete relationship. I was asking athlete or client how are you today. Scale the workout appropriately.
Adam, intensity doesn’t necessarily mean 100% exertion. Most days I encourage my athletes to work between 70-90% and save those maximum efforts for once every week or two. Relatively high intensity can vary from day to day, but it’s typically gonna be more challenging and more rewarding than jogging on a treadmill for 30 minutes. Also, what someone else said, making sure you recover properly is important, and overtraining typically occurs from too much volume rather than intensity. This is why my athletes can do “Fran” or “Grace” or “Amanda” and, while they might be fatigued for a couple of hours, they’re gonna feel much better the next day than if they did a workout like “Murph.” As Glassman says, “Be impressed by intensity, not volume.”
Has he just explained the problem with calling the games athletes the fittest in the world. The games set the weights, what if they set them above the level a lot of these guys can do, or indeed decreased the weights, with the decreased weights a smaller, lighter athlete would easily beat a games athlete in the athletic side of things and keep up or stay close to them on the weights.
Correct. The events in the crossfit games dictate who wins to a large degree. However, it appears the events are getting more extreme each year. Examples, longer endurance based events, heavier strongman/ max rep events, more events in a single day, a larger variety of odd objects and implements, obstacle courses etc. So it appears they are becoming better at sorting people out who can't perform well at all types of events. This differs greatly from the open competition because the open has remained largely the same each year and is very predictable. The same exercises appear almost every year and about 70% of events last 7-14 minutes and about 20% last 15-20 with a few exceptions.
timothysnow5 you could just as easily say that the open has the same problem. Again a smaller athlete would have problems with the weights and Max weights that are set in pretty much each event. If the weights we're set relative to the person's bodyweight, you would have different people making the regionals and games and it would really show who the fittest person is, not just who is the fittest person that (in the men's category) weighs over 80kg or 178lbs.
@daveaglasgow you only mention weights. What about gymnastics or monostructural movements? You can bias anything to favor various body types, but the entire purpose of the game is to vary the stimulus to challenge all the ten general skills equally (strength, stamina, endurance, flexibility, power, speed, coordination, agility, balance, accuracy) while pushing these incredible athletes to their physical and mental limits. If programmed correctly, the most well-rounded person should come out on top, which as CrossFit defines is the fittest person - the person with a “broad, general, and inclusive fitness.”
Anavar and cardio and protein powder
Video games is the next big insanity
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