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Crop-fit

Training has become a sanctuary for those who cannot stand strong with training as it has been established. CropFit is a perfect example.

“That’s intense.”

 “That’s one word for it.”

Training is not exciting in the traditional sense of the word. Training is a matter of automaticity. We practice the same movement pattern so very frequently that the system makes it unconscious. It is not thought provoking. It is not slow. Training makes reactions instinctive. Training makes normal everyday movements happen “in the zone”. This is why we train. This is what separates champions from everyday people. Champions have stick-to-it-iveness.

Really tough training is tough because it is inherently boring. I apologize to those of you who have been bamboozled by “personal trainers”. Training is healthy hard work with a sustaining strategy. Variety in training has been misrepresented as well. Doing a different exercise every training session is exercising not training. there is no opportunity for adaptations.

·         Intensity = weight

·         Shorter rest = duration

·         Different repetitions = volume

·         Compromised leverages = BAD LEVERAGES

Changing the intensity, duration (time under tension), and volume in training is all the variety a person requires.  Training involves seven or eight movements per training cycle. There is not enough training time available to train more than this. Training protocols allow for improvements in three or four movements per cycle; prioritize your work.

What is in vogue is what rookies have taken and promoted as “up-to-date”. When you go to your lawyer, or medical doctor, do you want to see the six year associate or the expert with twenty plus years in practice? If there is an exact science it is weightlifting. Weightlifters perform better in other sports than other athletes. Strength and conditioning is being a weightlifter and practicing your sport additionally. Training science has been established since the 1960s. Any significant work being done presently is a version of this science. It comes from Eastern Europe; the former Soviet Union. These books are available.

Strength applies universally.

Programing, technique analysis, corrective exercise, mobility work, Pilates, Yoga, cardiovascular work, strength, conditioning, bodyweight management (nutrition), balance work, power work, rest/recovery, and everything you can think of are parts of training. Working any one of these individually is incomplete. Training is comprehensive with respect to your sport/life. Sitting at a desk all day is easier than being an Olympian. We do not need to train as hard as an Olympian to walk around all day. Walking around all day is easier for Olympians. Training at this level makes one a physical genius.

CropFit, CrossFit, kettlebells, functional training, corrective exercise, appearance based training, CORE, personal training, and anything else that is “new” are all small parts of training. Some of these parts are not even qualified as training methods. Do a variety of fitness training. Do not pick the one aspect you are fond of and call it fitness training. Fitness is wide-ranging. If you plan on being knocked down and needing to stand up with a weight at arm’s length do the Turkish get up. Otherwise skip this circus act; it is never functional.

Get stronger and stop playing in the weight room.                              docsgym@live.com