Technique vs. Intensity - Keeping Your Training In Perspective

MONDAY, MAY 30TH, 2011

6:00pm

NOTE: There will be no class this Thursday or Friday as I will be travelling to San Jose to compete in the Reebok/CrossFit 2011 Regionals as a member of the CrossFit Redding team. It appears that there will be a recap or video update of each of the day's events, which will be held Friday, Saturday and Sunday. You can view these updates at http://games.crossfit.com/regions/northern-california.

Technique vs. Intensity - Keeping Your Training In Perspective

By Coach Justin

In CrossFit there always seems to be some sort of external motivator levied to push you beyond what you even think you’re capable of achieving. These motivators are what drive us out of our comfort zones and part of what makes CrossFit so effective and rewarding. These motivators are bigger than us. Bigger than our personal suffering and mental anguish. They force us to accomplish an amount of work that is approaching superhuman!

Sounds amazing no?

These motivators include pushing ourselves to find a maximum weight in a lift, a minimum time in a given workout, a maximum amount of reps in a given time period, a fastest sprint for a given distance, a maximum height or distance in a given task, or test our cardiovascular/respiratory endurance, stamina, strength, flexibility, power, speed, coordination, agility, balance, or accuracy, and may combine any and all of the aforementioned and more! (see 10 generally recognized physical fitness skills)

What all this boils down to is becoming proficient in various types of intensities. There is no argument that finding a 1 rep max squat is INTENSE but drastically different that finding your fastest mile time, which is also INTENSE!

Herein lies the beauty of CrossFit. CrossFit, in its most fundamental and elemental forms, trains you to not necessarily be the strongest person in the world (which is accompanied by poor endurance and long-term stamina) nor the best endurance athlete in the world (which is accompanied by abysmally poor levels of strength). CrossFit is designed to combine these varying types of training methods to develop athletes that are equally competent in all facets of fitness. This type of athlete will be better prepared to efficiently and proficiently accomplish a wider variety of both known and unknown tasks that they face. Life, survival and sport reward this type of fitness.

Coach Justin
PerformanceQuestFitness@gmail.com