Incorrect. I have no bias against any type of training. I'll thank you not to tell me what I think. I'll also thank you not to selectively quote me; you know full well that I was referring to XF in a sports context (ie, it isn't one)
In fact my own training has a resistance bias, at 6ft 210lbs w/12% body fat, I'm certainly no endurance athlete.
Riiiiiiight. Until I accept that XF participants are the bestest, I can't understand fit. Yeah. Well done.
I do love the way that "fitness" has been muddies into something completely unmeasurable and incomparable between sports. Somewhat conveniently for XF. I note with interest that Froning etc don't even train XFas we would understand it, or do XF WODs as their training regime.
I don't the that there's a reasonable argument against this, but it sticks in the throat when the followers of this craze tell us that XF people are the bestest, fittest people on the planet and that all other methods are inferior. Somehow these guys are fitter than all of the olympic athletes, pro and elite sportspersons. I don't buy it. Not even for a second.
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to start with i will say that i agree with you that the arrogance of crossfit does stick in the craw, but i think the reason for this is that crossfit participant are highly passionate about what they do. now in terms of the rest of your reponse your bias against crossfit is clearly showing as you have not listened to and/or understood what i've been saying. i have not said, nor have others here said that crossfit participants are the best or fittest athletes. if you think that is what has been said then please quote it for me to show that i'm wrong.
this debate started because you made an erroneous claim of what fitness is, primarily cardiovascular fitness in your opinion. now you are entitled to that opinion, but it has been shown to be incorrect the reasons why have been clearly stated. i've listed for you the 11 total different components of fitness and you seemingly refuse to accept them. so until you're willing to change your opinion of fitness to the accepted definition and parameters your stance on fitness is unfortunately without merit and you don't have resonable position in the debate at all.
in terms of the benefits ofcrossfit i don't entirely disagree with you and actually agree with you on some points as do some of the others on here. your point about crossfit not being a sport has some merit, but if we look at what the definition of sport is and then consider the crossfit games a reasonable argument can be made that crossfit is a sport. if you want to debate the merits of crossfit have at 'er, as said i will agree with you on some points. for myself though, it is not something i'm passionate enough about one way or the other to get drawn into a long debate about it.
however, i will say that the crossfit principles have sound reasoning behind them and as a training method it provides a better chance at developing fitness than most other one dimensional sports out there such as distance running.
We don't know what our limits are, so to start something with the idea of being limited actually ends up limiting us.
Ellen Langer