Long slow distance training ultimately results in broken down enemic bodies riddled with overuse injury.

Which guy above, if we measured their ability across the following challanges and took their average would come out on top. 

a. Row 2000 meters

b. Play a pickup game of basketball, volleyball, softball, etc.

c. Defend himself in a street brawl

d. Carry a loved one out of a third story burning building

e. Complete Fran, Helen, Diane, Karen, Cindy, Fight Gone Bad, etc. 

f. Gain attention from the opposite sex (in a favorable way)

Heres an awesome quote from CrossFit founder Greg Glassman regarding the difference between anaerobic vs. aerobic activity. 

“What’s the drawback of anaerobic efforts?
Discomfort.
I know tons of guys who think that spending all day jogging on west cliff is fun. I don’t know anyone who thinks a 1000 meter effort on a rower is fun.

We know that a good anaerobic athlete can put his hands in his pockets and walk up to a five gallon plastic bucket full of water and stick his head in and drown himself, and not pull out. That’s the kind of willpower that’s required to endure anaerobic efforts.

We don’t want to advertise that aspect of our program much. It doesn’t draw people through the door (Secretly we suspect it does). But it’s true. If you can give me good 1000 meter efforts on the rower, good 800 meter efforts on the track, if you can thoroughly exhaust these anaerobic pathways with a smile on your face, then you are the real deal.

To the extent that you can engage in this and not give up, you will also become supremely fit. Because you are working out in the high power range where the intensity is great, and that focus is where all the results come.”

More on this subject matter to come in future posts. 

WOD

“Fight Gone Bad!“

Three rounds of:
Wall-ball, 20 pound ball, 10 ft target (Reps)
Sumo deadlift high-pull, 75 pounds (Reps)
Box Jump, 20″ box (Reps)
Push-press, 75 pounds (Reps)
Row (Calories)

In this workout you move from each of five stations after a minute.The clock does not reset or stop between exercises. This is a five-minute round from which a one-minute break is allowed before repeating. On call of “rotate”, the athletes must move to next station immediately for best score. One point is given for each rep, except on the rower where each calorie is one point.

Dont tell me about it. Just get it done.

JMF