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Next up, crossfitters vs lions. "Jim, the lions are really hungry and upset." "Yeah, they've been purposefully caged up for this event, let's not forget these are really ferocious animals." "So are the crossfitters, bill." "The question is can you squat a lion." "Haha well we're going to find out, alright folks games about to begin!"
Yup. They are. Just as the performances are getting better. Can't argue with the notion that perhaps there's massive use of PEDs in the sport at the highest of competitive levels, but for me, there's something more important at play: CrossFit bodies...to a great extent, because there are outliers who buck the system...reflect the activities. If you run 10Ks competitively, your body will reflect this. Ditto for 100m sprints, tennis, basketball, football, rugby, Olympic and Powerlifting, cycliing, yadda, yadda, yadda. If you're executing the kinds of workouts the sport requires, if you make it to the highest levels of performance, by-and-large, you're going to look a certain way.
so pierce does crossfit for how long? 2 years? also, with most of CF is endurance you would mostly "shape" into a briggs than an ence. just because you "lift" you don´t get big (in comparison a olympic lifter is not as bulky as a 100m sprinter). there are "enhancements" in CF i would like to know the legal limits. also when you take a look at the europeans compared to the US, there is a dif. in "size".
and sound so also yes? ;) the standart for a "natural" bodybuilder still makes it possible to include enhancement. so why aren´t bodybuilders beasts in crossfit? because they train the muscles different. they train for volume of the muslce not rly strenght or endurance. you don´t get a certain look from just training, the amount of "fuel" to keep the muscles in that form, without burning themselfes up in recovery means there needs to go alot of stuff into the system. look at a powerlifter 6ft 280 pounds - that guy would run on around 4-6K calories bodybuilder 3-5k calories (depending on the cirlce) so how much would a crossfiter consume? when the volume of the workout is alot harder on the body (more reps, more movements longer sessions) to keep that amount of stenght and muslce running? they would have to eat every half hour a pretty rich meal, just to keep the body working and the muscles from closeing up/ or burning up. if crossfit HQ puts out the limit of what is alowed in the blood (hormon levels, o2 levels, etc etc) we could see a change in the physics of the athletes. and a pisstest, is like the name, just piss. what did the "roidking" say: no one is stupid enough to fail a pisstest, i could make a pig pass one. lance armstrong was never tested positiv ;)
Ughhh. This is amazing. I've never seen such amazing women physique. And they still look like ladies in the face. How can this be? Are they actually natty? They really look amazing. All of them!
Separated between men and manlywoman. Because of gymnastic and running components the guys can not get too big but the girls try to get as big as possible.
In running it happens probably in every race. Some times death but not that much. Every race I've run especially in the summer time runners push the heart to much and black out and pass out. So no big deal? I think haha.
i think too that the lack of aerobic activities (within low heart rate), or long steady state cardio, is a weakness in crossfit... i think short and intense works out make arteries and heart walls thicker which makes heart growth more difficult.. but they started to address this problem with chris hinshaw's aerobic capacities training
The ladies seem to be becoming more muscular. Look at the girl at 1:40, she has incredible arms. Who is she ? Many could flex their biceps and be quite suprising.
Why is Fraser wearing Nike? I thought crossfit only allowed Reebok, could someone please explain? Or are they required to wear Reebok only at the final games and not qualifiers?
He's a Nike athlete. Nike can only be shown on some athlete's footwear, like Katrin Tanja, Josh Briges, Fraser and other ones. Reebok's agreement is only extensive to CrossFit and its events for some years, it doesn't include some Elite Athletes, like the ones mentioned above, or others with other brands, like Brooke Ence, who has an agreement with No Bull. Think of this like in the NBA: the league uniforms is a contract between the NBA and Adidas, so all NBA uniforms are Adidas, regardless the sponsorship agreements between third party brands; like Under Armor, Nike, etc. I hope this is clearly explained.
im curious ... if one of those girls ever gets pregnant, will her abs harm the baby. i mean her abdominal wall will not be able to extend to make room for a child right?
I don't understand why the defending Games champion has to qualify. They should automatically be invited to the Games. In fact, I feel they should get a lifetime invitation.
David Jerome That's like saying, oh you won the World Cup, just go straight to the finals, there could be 40 people training harder than the previous champ, yet they get A by to the final? Nah
I was about to say the same thing, what a joke! I compare this trash to a guy who fails to become a cop and instead can only become a security guard for a mall!! LOL!!!
They didn't qualify from the open. To get to regionals you have to get top 20 or 30 in the open for your region. Then top 5 from each region goes to the games.
Crossfit is a relatively expensive sport (could be upwards of $100 per month) AND for the most part, it's also pretty dependent on a "community" of crossfitters at one gym. Long story short, due to the high amounts of minorities in "poor" areas, there are a lot less minority crossfitters. Football/basketball: both cheap, and or the schools provide free equipment to use. That's why we see a lot of minority athletes in cheap sports or sports that are funded by schools.
i feel like the most winningest athletes at these events benefit from both superior base ability / talent as well as highly sophisticated nutrition/doping strategies that make them unbeatable
Crossfit exercises SUCK they are not fun, mostly about weight lifting... i want to see climbing, jumping, swimming, and so many more entertaining possibilities!!!
Rajeev Nevin Sanhye thanks, hell no and i wanna see them. I guess is multifactor problem and mainly there's something to do with convenience for media companies to produce and broadcast. It's well known it's much easier and cheaper to install body building machines in a stadium than climbing walls, pools and many other facilities more nature like. And of course most sport people in modern cities don't get fit in the nature but in gyms so they are used to it. But that's not Health in the strictest and widest sense, a NATURE SOCIETY INDIVIDUAL Well being. So this way sports people are not as activist for a better world as they should/could be
I used to wander that too. I am guessing because they have sponsors and feel the need to look a certain way. But at my old box lots of the women wear makeup almost all of them. I never did because it would make me break out for sure but also I sweat a lot and I use my shirt to wipe my sweat.
