Comments on: Metcon Defined

By: Blair Lowe

Blair Lowe — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:35:13 +0000

btw, this was changed to 150m row, 10DL, and 15BJ during the second round

I was a bit concerned this, because I’ve never done this many DL in a workout even if they were lighter ( just as I was concerned about doing 5x5DL@2x the weight this summer ).

Wade’s team did 8 and the other teams did 6 rounds. It was interesting to see how the team workout ended up. I wasn’t apalled by it being the non-social individual sport persona I am and have become since my break with team sports years ago.

By: Justin A

Justin A — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:30:08 +0000

I liked Phil’s cave man example (paraphrased):
Long slow walk to the hunting grounds, hide in the grass, explode out of the bushes, sprint within range, throw the spear, kill it, drag it home, and eat for a few days.

By: Wade Smith (at work)

Wade Smith (at work) — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:04:53 +0000

Great. I’ve had the same question as Justin. Coming from a running & cycling (with lifting) background, I’ve done alot of Long-Slow-Distance stuff in past and have moved away from that. I like and prefer the heavy lifting WODs and shorter heavier more intense metcons.

But, like Justin, I have no idea what any of that scientific terminology means and/or whether the folks on the CF boards (including leaders from CF headquarters) are accurate.

I too look forward to your response, John. I’ve got much to learn.

P.S. – Pls think of some “subs” I can do tonight. Any DLing would have to be super light and the box jumps will need to wait til back fully heals. Oddly, it feels better after falling backwards last night. The human body is strange.

By: John

John — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 05:44:50 +0000

Hey Justin,

Great question and worthy of its own blog post. I’ll get a detailed response posted next week, but here’s a short answer: with any workout that lasts that long, you are spending a lot of time doing aerobic exercise. Aerobic exercise has some significant detrimental effects that make it less favorable than anaerobic exercise. We favor anaerobic exercises because it has all the same benefits, without the same negative effects. Stay tuned for more on this next week.

By: Justin A

Justin A — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 04:54:58 +0000

I saw on the crossfit message board one time some sort of discussion about why hour long heavy lifting intense workouts were not good (context of gym jones vs crossfit). There reason was someting about the pathways but I wasn’t getting it. They wrote that typical crossfit workouts should not take longer then 20 minutes. Is that true? Why? Is there something wrong with a 1 hour long crossfit type workout?