How to Become a Better Hybrid Athlete | Hunter McIntyre 

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I think the argument people make, me included, is that if we're talking purely fitness, there isn't a CrossFit athlete on earth, or any other athlete for that matter, that can compete with Hunter. But as you mentioned, Crossfit has a much higher "skill" element, like walking on your hands. Many of the the strength movement like the kipping pull-ups have a huge skill component even though it also requires strength. And of course, Olympic style barbell movements are also strength movements that require a lot of skill. In addition, the endurance test of a CrossFit athlete is nowhere close to that of a Hyrox athlete, as many crossover CrossFit folks have learned when they entered the Hyrox arena. It's better to just say the top athletes of each sport are incredible human beings that are both fit, just slightly different. I think it would be fun to put together some kind of pure fitness test that doesn't require skill. I've always thought a simple and fun event would be to pile a bunch of rocks and boulders of different sizes and weights, add a few logs of different sizes too, and have the top athletes in both sports move them two miles on a flat surface, and then up a mountain, perhaps a few more more miles up with a few thousand feet of elevation? This would be a test of pure strength and endurance.