Tuesday, February 10, 2009

CrossFit Strength Bias

There seems to be a lot of talk about the new CrossFit Journal article entitled "CrossFit Strength Bias".  It address some CrossFitter's needs to improve their strength foundation while also maintaining their metabolic conditioning.  A pure strength program like Starting Strength can often lead to a decrease in benchmark performance.  So what is a CrossFitter to do?  CrossFit Strength Bias addresses this problem.  By incorporating fundamental strength work along with traditional CrossFit metcon WODs it is possible to see an increase in strength while also being able to increase your work capacity.

In the coming weeks I will be incorporating the CrossFit Strength Bias into my routines and document my results.  Prior to starting I will post my baseline and let you know my week to week outcome.  If you are interest in the Strength Bias program you should get yourself a journal subscription, it does a great job at outlining the program and shows you how you can incorporate it with the main site WODs.

Finally, follow the link on an article about commitment.  It is geared towards a commitment to your career however I feel that it holds relevance to all types of commitments.  One of the most difficult things to overcome when starting a fitness program is commitment.  Committing to a program or goal takes sacrifice and courage wether it is the bowel of ice cream that we love to have every night or the hour of TV that we miss because we are at the gym.  Often times we have to sacrifice those things that provide us comfort in order to a greater end result.  Commitment is never an easy task, but if we persevere and push through during those hard times we find we are able to achieve amazing feats.

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