Fitness freak?

[Azure]

Anyone here keep track of their pulse?

I was at 69 today when I measured.

Would it be beneficial to get it lower? And would more cardio-related exercise help?

[Wookie]

Started crossfit today. Have looked at it a few times - liked what it suggested, but I've now become tired of what I'm doing as my regular routine and will change the gym portion of what I do to crossfit.

I bike/swim/run and play hockey as well. Just the gym part was stagnant.

Not sure how I'll incorporate my sports into it. There's a crossfit endurance. But at the moment I've had success with my sport specific training and want to keep building on that.

So for now it's crossfit + my own sports training.

[Dion]

Did and hour on the treadmill followed by an hour on the bike. All while watching the golf on TV

[metallicat]

Originally Posted by Wookie

Started crossfit today. Have looked at it a few times - liked what it suggested, but I've now become tired of what I'm doing as my regular routine and will change the gym portion of what I do to crossfit.

I bike/swim/run and play hockey as well. Just the gym part was stagnant.

Not sure how I'll incorporate my sports into it. There's a crossfit endurance. But at the moment I've had success with my sport specific training and wand to keep building on that.

So for now it's crossfit + my own sports training.

Eat meat and vegetables, nuts and seeds, some fruit, little starch and no sugar. Keep intake to levels that will support exercise but not body fat. Practice and train major lifts: Deadlift, clean, squat, presses, C&J, and snatch. Similarly, master the basics of gymnastics: pull-ups, dips, rope climb, push-ups, sit-ups, presses to handstand, pirouettes, flips, splits, and holds. Bike, run, swim, row, etc, hard and fast. Five or six days per week mix these elements in as many combinations and patterns as creativity will allow. Routine is the enemy. Keep workouts short and intense. Regularly learn and play new sports.
~Greg Glassman

Good luck with crossfit, it's a life changer.

[Azure]

Holy old thread bump.

[Wookie]

Originally Posted by oilers_fan

Eat meat and vegetables, nuts and seeds, some fruit, little starch and no sugar. Keep intake to levels that will support exercise but not body fat. Practice and train major lifts: Deadlift, clean, squat, presses, C&J, and snatch. Similarly, master the basics of gymnastics: pull-ups, dips, rope climb, push-ups, sit-ups, presses to handstand, pirouettes, flips, splits, and holds. Bike, run, swim, row, etc, hard and fast. Five or six days per week mix these elements in as many combinations and patterns as creativity will allow. Routine is the enemy. Keep workouts short and intense. Regularly learn and play new sports.
~Greg Glassman

Good luck with crossfit, it's a life changer.

Thanks, I've trained with a little bit of components from it before - prior to it being a phenom. I used to do a lot of cleans, squats, deadlifts. Just take it to a different level I guess

Originally Posted by Azure

Holy old thread bump.

I searched the forum for crossfit, it apeared in this thread as well as a few others. This seemed the best to put my comment in rather than start a new thread.

[awildermode]

Originally Posted by Azure

Holy old thread bump.

yeah, there should be merge or something with this, p90x, fast way to get fit, and what to eat threads.

[GreenLantern]

I'll merge your face.

I am intrigued by this crossfit and have even discovered there is one located in my City.. I had no idea.

I am among those who finds the daily routine at the Gym stale, that is why I usually only can keep up 4-6 month periods of straight weight lifting before I find myself dozing off mid routine and ultimately "taking a break" that ends up lasting for weeks to months.

Questions: Do you do CrossFit at home? Have you tried it in their "group settings"?

[metallicat]

I only do crossfit at home, because of the high cost of going to their gyms. Obviously I am missing out on all the proper equipment, and the 1-on-1 training that you receive at a crossfit gym, but it's all I can do right now.

If you want to start out at home, I recommend a bench with bars for doing things like squats and shoulders, and of course bench press. A good bar of course to do the other olympic lifts. A chin-up bar and a place to do dips is a must. A kettlebell is secondary as you can use dumbbells if you have to, but they are nice. And really that's about it, at least that's all I have. When the workouts call for running or rowing mixed in with the workout, I just don't do that portion of it, and go running another time.