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Originally Posted by Saul Good
I play sports against focused lifters, and raw strength just doesn't translate efficiently. If I'm boxing against a sparring partner who spends most of his training time in the weight room, it's not even a fair fight.
Sure, I run the risk of getting knocked across the ring, but it never happens. I'm so much quicker it's silly. A few minutes in, when his stamina is a liability, it's open season.
There really is a reason that most professional athletes look more like cross fit champions than Mr. Olympia.
That's not meant to denigrate pure lifters in any way. Lifting is specialized. Cross-fit is versatile. There are more real-world applications in my life for cross fit. That may be different for you.
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If your a professional athlete, or any athlete for that matter, your training is sport specific. Most NFL players are pretty jacked, because the sport requires both endurance as well as limit strength. If you look at some of the more built crossfit champions, and follow their blog, they lift some heavy ass weight and follow tried and true strength routines. They just use crossfit as a means for the endurance side, which is what it is. This is why so many out of shape people hit crossfit to get in shape, its basically organized group calisthenics. I'm not saying its easy, I just can accomplish the same goals from doing hill sprints or pushing a prowler. When you say pure lifters I think your getting caught up in the dogma of fat, out of shape power lifters. Most strength based programs or even body building for that matter, contains some sort of hard conditioning to take care of the endurance side.