Anti-glycolytic Training for Crossfit?

Mladen Jovanovic

26/04/2017 at 00:27 #19619

I accidentally stumbled upon Strongfirst For Crossfit article, which I urge you to read. Without going into the study design (is it even published?), although I would love to recommend the author to try to make the same analysis using Magnitude-based approach (Will Hopkins) and maybe split the athlete to low-, med- and high-level to see if there are differences in training effect, I wanted to expand to Anti-glycolytic training.

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Cameron Birtwell

27/04/2017 at 19:45 #19624

Hi Mladen,

I would guess that the study was not a full scientific process, hence no discussion of study design or connection with an institution. Having trained and coached in CrossFit since 2008, I agree that most low to mid level CrossFit participants tend to push the ceiling all the time … unless the structure of their program explicitly dictates otherwise. The majority of CrossFit gyms still tend to program “ceiling” workouts all the time to satisfy their members’ desire for a very “hard workout”. From my observations, the higher the athlete rises, the more tendency there is to involve different intensities of exercise and focus on developing quality. Some gyms and trainers incorporate these by providing daily (or per session) “themes” to guide their athletes experience. A recent trend in training methods in CrossFit is the “EMOM” (Every Minute On the Minute), in which the goal (usually) is repeated efforts of high quality with a background of moderate metabolic stress.

Cam

Mladen Jovanovic

30/04/2017 at 01:52 #19638

Thank Cam. Agree 110%. Interesting to see parallels with late Charlie Francis extensive tempo work.

Cameron Birtwell

02/05/2017 at 01:08 #19647

That’s an interesting observation, and I hadn’t made that connection but it makes a lot of sense! Similar format and end goals – extensive quality work!