I have a longer version of this post that expounded upon my theory (stolen mostly from CrossFit) of what fitness is and why that’s important. I decided that even I wouldn’t read it and so have tried to boil it down a bit. 1. Quick, answer the question what does it mean to be fit. [...]
Posts from ‘June, 2008’
Programming Experiments
No one has found the perfect fitness program. In fact, there is probably no such thing as the perfect program. It is the journey and the road constantly turns and takes you somewhere you didn’t expect to be. OK, too much philosophy. Here’s what I’m getting at. There is a fine line between spastic training [...]
Exercise Travel
I wish I could could say that I am sad I will miss some workouts as I take a vacation to Costa Rica in 9 days, but that would be a total lie. I’m so excited. That said, the last time I took a week off for vacation (and I mean OFF) I drank to [...]
Simplicity and Intensity
Often times these two aspects of exercise go together well. You don’t have to string together 10 different exercises with complicated rep schemes (Gym Jones) in order to get an intense workout. Sometimes you do one exercise for a set time or rep count and just go. The perfect example of this style of workout [...]
Keep Going!!!!!
There are some workouts that are insurmountable. Half way through you start to crash. You paced wrong, you used too much weight, you’re just not in that good a shape. Who knows why, but there is no way you are getting through. Or are you? A smart person (or a dumb person with a smart [...]
Form and Function
Form and intensity often have a tense relationship in high intensity style training such as CrossFit. The harder you push and more tired you become, the worse your form gets. The worse your form gets, the less efficiently you work and the more tired you become, thus causing your form to break down further. It’s [...]