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Originally Posted by ukaking
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Straif,
Very valid points and more what I thought I would be reading when coming on here. Is it me, or do you get the feeling the people that claim to lift the most are also the "pew pew pew" people you speak of?
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People like to boast and brag a lot. That's why there are mirrors in gyms.
I tend to take a humble approach. Your actions speak louder than words and someone, somewhere might be working ten times harder than me.
Show don't tell. My deadlift 1RM or other PR's don't mean shit to anyone else but me. So I question a person who has a psychological need to talk about their achievement's.
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Originally Posted by Aum
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Well said straif. The biggest thing I like about the crossfit program is it is typically a full body workout, and allows me to be brainless about it and follow their routine. A bicep curl isn't going to help me become any more functional. It won't help me lift a ladder, carry a patient, or give me
the cardio to keep going. At least not much. I need to work everything if
I'm going to beable to perform like I need to.
That's the biggest problem I have with gym equipment. Might make
you pretty, but it's not going to help you function too much, which is what I need.
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Most of my programming is built around the Crossfit concept: Compound movements. Training is only effective if it transfers to the real thing. The real thing being work / sport / whatever.
My beef with P90x and Crossfit is that it's randomized and unstructured. It'll build a good foundation but other aspects of fitness suffered because of it. But just because it doesn't mesh with my goals doesn't mean it doesn't work. If the work is done and it produces results, the training is working.