My Crossfit Baseline Assessment - Page 2

Originally Posted by furo

I stopped by a crossfit gym last Friday just to see what was there. I'd never read much about Crossfit outside of casual web browsing. My normal gym is one of those LA Boxing style gyms where I do a lot of bag work with a mix of what I'd say are some crossfit elements.

But damn, this baseline assessment kicked my ass hard. The exercises were:

500m row on their rowing machine
40 air-squats (have to touch a 12" medicine ball when you squat down)
30 weird situps with no ankle support
20 burpees
10 pullups

I thought I was in pretty good shape going into this, with experience in all of the above exercises except the rowing machine

Well, that row machine destroyed me. After I got the machine to about 250-300 meters, I could feel most of my muscles starting to fatigue. And after I got up from the row machine, I felt flat-out weak and beaten.

The rest of the exercises I stumbled through to a finishing time of 7:15

I'm guessing I did poorly because I just don't have any experience on the rowing machine, but I was honestly surprised to see how beaten I was after finishing. After finishing, my lungs burned for about 30 minutes, and I could barely walk for the first 10 minutes. And I don't consider myself in poor cardio shape at all; I ran 4.2 miles two days ago at a 7:20/mile pace at 4,500 ft of elevation.

Oh well. Was an interesting experience.

Originally Posted by rjmaiorano

You're trainer is an absolute moron.

Originally Posted by Tooch4321

Depends on what and how you were training before you tried this assessment, I know I shocked the shit outta the instructors and so called "athletes" when I proceeded not only finish in just over 4 minutes, but I also demolished several of these "athletes" who have been doing CrossFit from 6 months to over 2 years. That was the proof I needed to show me that CrossFit wasn't for me...

Originally Posted by LucasCLarson

Great story.

So, what's your secret?

Originally Posted by Tooch4321

Well, I am a former D-1 Nose Tackle, I run two-a-days 6 days a week which include weighted hill and prowler sprints. I train heavy 5x5 and there is no secret, I put work in and since '07, I've cut down from 295lbs to 185lbs. I guess it is a great story since I don't pay some douchebag $200 a month for the promise of becoming an "elite athlete" while snapping photos of me doing 50lb poorly formed snatches. So, why don't you go and eat a hot bowl of dicks...

Originally Posted by Tooch4321

Well, I am a former D-1 Nose Tackle, I run two-a-days 6 days a week which include weighted hill and prowler sprints. I train heavy 5x5 and there is no secret, I put work in and since '07, I've cut down from 295lbs to 185lbs. I guess it is a great story since I don't pay some douchebag $200 a month for the promise of becoming an "elite athlete" while snapping photos of me doing 50lb poorly formed snatches. So, why don't you go and eat a hot bowl of dicks...

Originally Posted by rjmaiorano

Jesus you were a D1 nose tackle and now your the size of a db. You decide to do this after graduation?

Originally Posted by Tooch4321

Nope, I left U of I for art school halfway through my Sophmore year, I met my girlfriend at the time and gave up on weights, working out and pretty much any physical activity (except fucking). Anyways, we split a few years after, I had just had gallbladder surgery and dropped 20+lbs from that (mostly water weight and lack of eating solid food), so I decided to continue to drop the weight. So, I went from 270lbs at that time to about 210lbs (motivated from a break-up), I had a slight relapse after a year of random injuries and what not. I went back up to about 245lb and 2.5 years ago, I made a huge push and dropped 50+ in about 5 months and at one point got down to 175lbs. I got back into to lifting and training like I did when I played ball and did it with a clean diet, gave up booze for a year and exercise...

Originally Posted by Grayland

A D-1 nosetackle leaves a big university to go to art school. Didn't that movie star Chris Farley?

Originally Posted by doug funnie

You sound like a really good example of how elite athletes can crush crossfit workouts, but doing crossfit is a really poor way to make yourself an elite, or even above average athlete.

Originally Posted by Tooch4321

Well, I am a former D-1 Nose Tackle, I run two-a-days 6 days a week which include weighted hill and prowler sprints. I train heavy 5x5 and there is no secret, I put work in and since '07, I've cut down from 295lbs to 185lbs. I guess it is a great story since I don't pay some douchebag $200 a month for the promise of becoming an "elite athlete" while snapping photos of me doing 50lb poorly formed snatches. So, why don't you go and eat a hot bowl of dicks...