Monday, April 16, 2012

CROSS-fit #79 Trade off

There's always a trade-off.
No matter how small or big.
If you focus on your strength, your metabolic conditioning is bound to drop.
Focus on flexibility and stamina, your strength may just plummet.
Do heavy reps and never attempting a 1 rep max. Soon, the reps will catch up to you.
So how to be a all-rounder? One that's good at everything.
To be great at lifts and met-con at the same time.
The elites have somehow found a way to perfect it and no,  it's not just the genes.

As they always say, crossfit is constantly varied, purely functional, highly intense.
But then again, you will only get random success with random programming.
To ensure success, have proper programming.
The beasts out there have been training day and night for months.
However, it isn't just the sheer volume of workload they do every single day.
It's about what they do.
Carefully planned, meticulously scrutinized training regimes.
Every workout is planned and executed precisely as planned.
This is key.
The magic doesn't begin with the plates or the rack.
It begins on the white board.

What're you planning today?
Proper growth plans or just random scheduling.
The latter is easily disguised as the former.
Be careful to distinguish between both of them.
Patterns are not uncommon for good trainers It may seem to be a contradiction to "constantly varied".
But as said before, it isn't random success we're looking for.
It's a sustained one.

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