Great post overall, but someone riding a $5,000 Cervelo would look like an overfed Carlos Sastre, Ryder Hesjedal or Thor Hushovd, not an overfed Lance Armstrong, who rode Merckx and Trek during his professional career.
What’s life without a little risk? I play ice hockey, which is 100x more dangerous than anything done wearing sneakers. But its fun and it keeps me motivated for my fitness goals. A broken ankle is easily fixed, type two diabetes is not. People shouldn’t sweat small risks with no long term consequence. Otherwise they’d stay on their couch watching Survivor. This is coming from someone in a country with socialised medicine mind you…
Thor always was a little bulky… Why do the rich guys always ride Cervelos? If I had unlimited funds, my butt would be on a Bianchi or Pinerello long before a Cervelo. And I’m Canadian!
I’m a Klein man myself (although I guess I should say was since they no longer exist), but Bianchi and Pinerello are also amazing bikes. I briefly had an old school steel Pinerello with a TT setup but sold it to a buddy who does a ton of Tri’s. Was going to buy a Bianchi for my road bike, but found a place where I could get an unused Chehalis-built Klein Quantum frame set and got that instead. Of course I bought my bikes in the early 2000’s and have no desire to replace them.
Believe me; I get the thrill of risk. But there is risk and there is dumb risk. The obstacle races are the latter.
Organized sports are definitely risky but they also require a lot of training, certain physical preparation level, and (like in case of hockey) tons of protective wear. On the other hand, anyone with a pair of sneakers can participate in those races.
Also, not wanting to take athletic risks doesn’t automatically make you a couch potato
If you’re arguing that part of the problem of these races is people enter them unprepared because they look fun, and therefore put themselves at risk, then I agree. That said, no amount of preparation or padding will help you in hockey falling into the boards at top speed.
I took a class a while ago, pretty intense wouldn’t recommend it to people who hasn’t been working out regularly or it’s one way ticket to snapcity for you.
Hey I’m curious, in Iran do the weighlifters start with a base in squats and deadlifts before they move onto olympic lifts, or are the olympic lifts the core and primary exercise? It seems to me that coaches prefer teaching Olympic lifts after you have developed enough core strength, but I was wondering if S/C&J could be the primary exercise in developing a weightlifter.
I think brain_wash sums it up pretty well. hprcing007 also gets an lol, so true.
I used to train crossfit as an adjunct to jiu jitsu and muay thai. It was great at first where we mostly just did high intensity cario workouts with low weight (running, air/ball squats, kettle bells, real pull-ups, push-ups and sit-ups, etc…); essentially you were less prone to injury. This was perfect for me since all I wanted was to build cardio and some core strength. Helps with be more explosive when rolling bjj/muay thai. Other than that, I did weight lifting on the side just to build more power.
Then the whole style changed. Most of the good cardio stuff gave way to high weights with increasingly more reps… I stopped doing it when I hurt my back doing a ton of deadlifts at about 80% my max. Fortuntely, it wasn’t a bad injury, but I called it quits after that and decided to do my own thing.
My roommate wasn’t so lucky… got a herniated disc, couldn’t walk for like 2 months, and out of work for 6 months.
Injuries are inevitable in any sport, but CF def. deserves the bad wrap.
All the essentials. I’m really happy to hear of all the people on this community who train. Did you have any problems adjusting your stance coming from boxing to MT? I know i did, albeit, reverse from MT to boxing.
businessweek had an article with some interesting stats on injury rates, which are apparently in line with or below many other physical activities. If i could paste a fucking link on this stupid site, I would.
