RedShed Rest Day
In the shed, we get the question often "this is it? this is all I have to do? this workout is only 10 minutes, is that enough?" And after that individual has recovered (usually leaving his/her sweat soul behind), I like to re-explain the idea of improving work capacity. In most cases, an athlete new to CrossFit will accomplish more work in a 10 minute "Mini-Cindy", than he or she would spending 45 minutes in his/her respective gym. Although this goes against what you may have learned in PE class, or how you trained for sport in high school and/or college, or what you read in nationally accredited fitness journals... that fact is that it works. The results are measurable, and they permeate into all aspects of your life. The science behind it has been debated, but the end result is always the same.
Tony Leyland writes about it in CF Journal 51.
I believe CrossFit embraces the reality that we cannot conduct true scientific experiments on humans and that we may never really know the exact how or the exact optimum. What we do know is that CrossFit is extremely effective. If others out there can show exactly how and why it works—can give some insight into what happens in the black box of CrossFit inputs and outputs--all the better. If they can show a better way, we remain open to seeing their evidence. (Tony Leyland, CrossFit Journal 51 - November 2006) Read entire article...
Michael's CrossFit Leg Day:
(aka my shoulders STILL hurt so let's direct the pain to other parts of my body)
3 rounds:
run 800 m
50 squats
25 GHD sit-ups
25 lunges
50 back extensions
J9: 20:52
This was a creation of combining 2 of my favorite WODs
Posted by: J9 | February 26, 2009 at 08:41 PM