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Originally Posted by Omaha
That's not the statement that I quoted in bold. What you're saying is correct and I've never seen anyone deny that. In fact, you basically retyped what I wrote.
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The problem is that it feeds into the ridiculous notion that JUST doing the Crossfit random WoD will make you awesome at everything.
For instance, I lift and also play a shitload of soccer. Do I credit the soccer for my lifting? I guess in some small way it helps me somehow. But the reality is that it's the specific, directed programming that helps my lifting more than anything else.
This kind of deception isn't confined just to Crossfit, though. It's been going on in lifting circles for decades. Guys see a workout in Muscle and Fitness with a ridiculous schedule and ridiculous number of reps and follow it because the guy that made it up was FREAKING HUGE, MAN!!! But he didn't disclose that his workout only made you awesome if you're on steroids. Whoops. But guys still dutifully do the workouts, and when they don't get huge, they blame it on something else, and not the workout that was designed for a guy on 'roids.