The girl in this picture is Jocelyn Forest Haynes. She was a collegiate and professional softball player. She won the CF Nor-Cal Regional in 2009 and participated in the 2009 CF Games (the last ones to be held at the Ranch in Aromas). Since then she has transitioned into competitive weightlifting. The article linked below was written by Jocelyn and recaps her journey through crossfit to Olympic lifting. I am not posting her article to try and convince anyone to leave crossfit or anything like that. Jocelyn was exposed to two very different methodologies during her time training as a CF athlete. I think the article is good reading because it is a first hand account of experiencing very different CF programs and the results they produced. Remember there are numerous approaches to CF training and it is always a good idea to keep an open mind, think critically about your training program, and try to learn as much as possible from other people's experiences.
Click Here for Jocelyn's Article
Post your thoughts and reactions to the comments section. I would be interested to hear what you guys think.
haha! harkens back to Isaac encouraging short interval training to improve endurance and seems to overall highlight the danger of doing your own programming. i think it also unintentionally shows the mental pitfall of getting too into one thing whether it's CF or weightlifting you gotta have some fun with it and mix stuff up.
ReplyDeleteI think there is only danger in doing your own programming if you don't have an adequate understanding of what you are doing and why you are doing it. There is a lot of evidence out there to suggest that focusing on 20+ min metcons and doing 10 wods a week is not how you become the best crossfitter you can be. Rather you focus on strength and short high intensity metcons. You get adequate rest on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis. You practice high skill movements in "skill" sessions where you can put all your focus on technique and execution until you are competent in the technique, then you start implementing these movements into wods. For extra endurance you work high intensity/short duration intervals. You still do 20+ min wods and long monostructural activities like a 5K run, but they are done occasionally to measure progress and test your mental fortitude, but they are not the foundation of your day to day training.
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ReplyDeleteHi, my name is Melissa and I'm addicted to CrossFit. Or maybe I'm more addicted to the community. But whatever it is, I'm so thankful that I am doing OLY club. I may never become a champion weightlifter or even a champion CrossFiter. But I have found another huge challenge (weakness) in my life and now on to conquer it. I want to become better, to become excellent with OLY lifts. So basically I'm going to be sponge and soak up as much knowledge and skills that I can the next several weeks and will take any advice to be given.
ReplyDeleteJeff and Cody, you guys are doing an awesome job! Thank you very much :)