So from time to time I see fitness studious around the chicago area promoting Hight intensity training. So I think to myself and say hopefully they do something awesome, and i don't even think they have to do crossfit stuff. Then I see the vid and bam they claim to do something different that's not really all that different. Its the safe version of High intensity training. Lets do an hour worth of cardio and mask it as high intensity. Light weights, running, a person with a microphone, and people not getting strong. I get that some people like things "easy" and just doing things in your safe zone. Crossfit is awesome in the fact that it takes you out of that safe zone and make that mental adaptation that is needed to stave off nursing homes and falls later in life. Your brain cells actually depend on it. everyday you come in and there is something new, even if its a movement you have done in the past its still combined with another movement you haven't done with a different rep scheme (adaptation). With strength endless techniques can be used to develop that, motor recruitment skills, angles, force changes, time etc... these are things you don't get with just hitting up the cardio hardcore.
Now do I think that someone from our program handle theirs....unequivocally yes, can they handle ours? probably not. I am not basing this on the fact that one is more intense than the other but that the way our program is structured they will adapt and overcome because they are use to finding that second gear and pushing beyond what they thought they could, not in a well i'm going to go until I die either. We get these people from these other studios and have had personal trainers for years and still can't seem to move in the proper fashion and have weak cores, imbalances, tight hips, and the list goes on and on. Just my opinion i guess.
cheers.
