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Crossfit title "the fittest on Earth"


M.T

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Don't know if anyone ahs been watching the Crossfit games on Sky recently but it had me thinking is this the best comp to truly define who is the fittest Male/Female in the World?

Talking in terms of overall fitness as each challenge is presented to them by random so you cannot be good at just any one thing and it encorporates heavy weight lifting (powerlifting), Oly lifting, Gymnastics, Cardio and more would it be fair to say the out right winners are the fittest in the WORLD?

I'm on the fence for now unless someone can convince me otherwise.

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IMO crossfitters are jack of all trades master of none. They will be out lifted by powerlifters/weightlifters, out run by marathon runners, will get killed in bw events by gymnasts. However if you put any one of those specialist into the crossfit games they may not do too well. I think the winner of the crossfit games should be dubbed crossfittest in the world.

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IMO crossfitters are jack of all trades master of none. They will be out lifted by powerlifters/weightlifters, out run by marathon runners, will get killed in bw events by gymnasts. However if you put any one of those specialist into the crossfit games they may not do too well. I think the winner of the crossfit games should be dubbed crossfittest in the world.

Very true.

I enjoy the CF training now, but will not be caught out being a nutrider who thinks it is the uber training.

I am actually wanting to go back to heavy lifting.

CF is a good all rounder, but it comes down to your goals.

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IMO crossfitters are jack of all trades master of none. They will be out lifted by powerlifters/weightlifters, out run by marathon runners, will get killed in bw events by gymnasts. However if you put any one of those specialist into the crossfit games they may not do too well. I think the winner of the crossfit games should be dubbed crossfittest in the world.

Very true.

I enjoy the CF training now, but will not be caught out being a nutrider who thinks it is the uber training.

I am actually wanting to go back to heavy lifting.

CF is a good all rounder, but it comes down to your goals.

yeah like yesterday for example they had the females doing 155lb front squats to depth x7, 700m bike and 100m monkey bars for 3 laps!

Now that to me says FIT. Sure a Powerlifter would own the Squats as a cyclist would the bike but being a jack of all trades require some serious work and is a master sport in it's self.

Good to raise here as we have a combination of Sportsmen and women so can see many point of views.

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IMO crossfitters are jack of all trades master of none. They will be out lifted by powerlifters/weightlifters, out run by marathon runners, will get killed in bw events by gymnasts. However if you put any one of those specialist into the crossfit games they may not do too well. I think the winner of the crossfit games should be dubbed crossfittest in the world.

Very true.

I enjoy the CF training now, but will not be caught out being a nutrider who thinks it is the uber training.

I am actually wanting to go back to heavy lifting.

CF is a good all rounder, but it comes down to your goals.

yeah like yesterday for example they had the females doing 155lb front squats to depth x7, 700m bike and 100m monkey bars for 3 laps!

Now that to me says FIT. Sure a Powerlifter would own the Squats as a cyclist would the bike but being a jack of all trades require some serious work and is a master sport in it's self.

Good to raise here as we have a combination of Sportsmen and women so can see many point of views.

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There are all sorts of diff types of fitness so to say someone is the fittest is pretty broad...

It's just like nzsm... The winner is just the strongest person on the day at those particular events not really the strongest person on nz..

Everyone has strengths and weaknesses. U will always be able to beat someone at something and someone will always be able to bear you at something.

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Curtesy of Pman I thought this point was interesting - he says that if you took a strong powerlifter who was out of shape in terms of aerobic fitness but still trains everyday and is a bit fat from those wonderful PL diets, how long would it take to get him conditioned to a crossfit style workout.

Now take a run-of-the-mill crossfitter and ask how long it would take to get him as strong as the powerlifter.

Crossfit defines fitness as essentially the ability to do crossfit. On those terms, yeah, their winner is the "fittest" in the world. But I think fitness is probably more than aerobic conditioning, especially where sport is concerned.

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Well it's quite obvious that a person with good strength and poor aerobic fitness will accel and progress much faster in crossfit than someone with good aerobic fitness and poor strength.

There are lots of guys in nz doing crossfit now who come from bb and pl backgrounds they are machines!

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Well it's quite obvious that a person with good strength and poor aerobic fitness will accel and progress much faster in crossfit than someone with good aerobic fitness and poor strength.

There are lots of guys in nz doing crossfit now who come from bb and pl backgrounds they are machines!

An ideal way to do it too, or at least for a period of time. I plan to do a crossfit type season next year and then come back to normal training.

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I plan to do a crossfit type season next year and then come back to normal training.

I would agree with this. I would recommend it.

The boot camp starters are not the real deal, but the CF groups offer it as a way in. Once you hit the 21-15-12 sets, for time in the regular classes, you really define yourself as fit or not.

I am 10kgs lighter, but my aerobic fitness is boosting. Still have a decent physique.

But... I am needing to be bigger and stronger again. I am starting to look like a triathlete (as mentioned earlier).

Good enough, seldom is. Loving the CF though, even though I can't keep up with those folk from a running background. Strength only gets you so far, before you gas out.

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Like someone mentioned they are a jack of all trades. "Fitness" for me is defined as more than just aerobic endurance, it includes all components of fitness such as strength, endurance, flexibility, power, speed etc etc. If you claim to be the fittest in the world then you need to be able to excel at all of these components which the world's best cross fitters usually do. Okay even a mediocre marathon runner may be able to outrun the world's best cross fitter but how much can that marathon runner dead lift? How many chin ups can he do?

Having said that I personally don't find a hell of a lot of merit in being "the fittest in the world" I find greater interest in specializing in something and being able to say unequivocally you are the best at that particular thing. I would tend to see cross fit as more of a tool to achieve a particular type of athleticism. But that's just me, I'm sure there are people who genuinely are passionate about becoming 'the world's fittest person'.

This applies to all of us really...

:grin:

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