So I decided to try out crossfit for the first time last Friday. Quickest review: I would rather mow the lawn than do crossfit again. In all seriousness I do not get the point of working at full intensity for 16 minutes and then go home. That's the biggest and easiest marketing scheme ever to get people locked on to this "new" way of working out. To any newbie this seems like a great workout... You get out there and it makes you hurt, you sweat like hell, it's very difficult and your heart beats out of your chest. Awesome right. For anyone that is coming right off the couch that seems like the way it gets done to get fit. Yes I'm not denying that it will help. Of course anyone that has been sitting in the couch downing Doritos like nobody's business will benefit from this. Heck they would benefit from trying to reach to tie their shoes. But the thing is with this kind of high intensity training with no thought on body fitness level and recovery does more bad than good. One of the main things you have to worry about in crossfit is the likelihood of getting hurt. You are NOT supposed to go hard everyday. This Rocky mentality will destroy your body sooner or later. For full gains and health you need to change intensity and have days where you just keep it cool and work out the lactic acid buildup. Intervals are important in training but I believe for what I'm trying to do as an endurance athlete it would completely destroy any hopes of getting better. So it's tuesday today and I am still sore from my 16 min workout on Friday morning. Yay. No not for me. I guess others could argue that it depends on your priorities in fitness. They would rather be able to flip a tire with ease and throw high fives. I'd rather be able to out run or out bike anyone out there. They can keep flipping tires while I'm out there having a great time.
Ohh and I started doing spinning in the afternoons to double up my workouts. So far so good. Spinning is a great leg and heart workout. It will get me stronger on the bike and is also letting me work on my cadence so I can get rid of all those dead spots I developed from running so much. I also sweat like hell.... I blame it on my training, my body is so used to cooling itself down that as soon as I start pedaling it thinks I'm going 100 mph and my body reacts by turning on my own internal cold shower.
