[KAYNE]

Originally Posted by takeahnase

Of course, 5x5 is not feasible if you have skill training 6 days a week. But from that it does not follow that the time you do spend training for strength is best spent doing deadlifts and push press for singles whenever they turn up in WODs. What is good about crossfit it includes compound movements, high intensity training and gymnastic components. The individual WODs are also often interesting. But the programming is entirely random, which makes little sense. How do you peak for a competition, address weaknesses, etc. if your routine consists of prespecified WODs?

This I think is the biggest problem it would be hard to peak doing the randomized wods I think. The reading I have done is that most of these guys take the wods and put them into a program for themselves. Honestly I was at 320lbs at 6'6" tall and could bench 365 lbs for a set of 10. But I will be damned if I had the stamina to do 5 rounds of hard Thai Pad work. Now I am more concerned about my conditioning. I will always be strong but I need to be lean and have a higher endurance level. The wods when I started seemed impossible but now they are almost normal but I am still competing with myself for a better time/weight etc (oh and I am still doing jumping pullups after a few rounds I just cant get my big ass up after 21-15-9 pullups and thrusters) As for the equipment if you read the website it is a minimalistic set up I put the gym in my garage for about 700 bucks and love it! NO MORE GLOBO GYM!