WOD 4.21.09

Rest Day

And from the main site, some food for thought. . .

#1  General Physical Preparedness (GPP) is the most underdeveloped aspect of athletic training, especially in elite athletes.

#2 Crossfit produces an unmatched GPP in novice, intermediate, and advanced athletes regardless of their prior training and sport.

#3  Every athlete we've worked with, from Olympic medalists, to UFC legends, has some glaring chink is his/her GPP, and it takes, at most, 2 hours, two sessions, on average to find these chinks.

#4  Fixing these chinks, these deficiencies, has immediate benefit within your sport and very often in ways not quite obvious mechanically and perhaps metabolically.  For instance, more pull-ups makes for better skiing and skiers.  Upper body pushing movements makes for better rowing and rowers.  Anaerobic training is a boon to endurance athletes.

#5  There's greater margin for improving performance in elite athletes, where margins of victory are very tight, improving GPP with Crossfit than can be garnered though additional sport specific training.

#6  Crossfit produces a "ready-state" from which more advanced or sport specific training becomes very efficient.  -Mark "Dr. Doom" Twight

#7  Crossfit, will for many sports reduce the total training volume, reduce training injuries, and allow more time for vital sport specific skills and drills.

#8  Crossfit is more fun and seems more athletic to experienced athletes than does traditional GPP.

#9  Crossfit has athletes improving their fitness for years beyond, to levels significantly beyond, traditional GPP.

#10  Sport training and physiology are not so well understood that highly specialized strength and conditioning routines are optimally effective.