What CrossFitters Can Learn From Bodybuilders...
"Basically, everything I try to do is to present an alternative to what somebody else is doing."
Rarely will you find me recounting my stage days with painted skin, oiled biceps, and skimpy underwear. But if I am feeling nostalgic, its not because I miss it, its because something else is missing what it taught me.
Speaking from experience many, not all, but many bodybuilders are not even close to athletes. Some are greatly gifted and could be qualified as an athlete, but the majority have a hard time breathing normally. Most won't leave a kitchen for more than two hours for fear of missing a meal. And most bodybuilders know what functional movements are, and they steer clear of them all together. Again, I spent alot of time there I know.
To their credit this is the goal. Bodybuilders win by their looks not by their "Fran" time. They really could give a shit how strong they are, its how strong they look that matters. And this is totally acceptable, just as boxing, or gymnastics, or any other sport that can rely on judges.
Most bobybuilders I know would applaud a CrossFitters WOD diligence. They may even marvel at their ability to move gracefully, run, pull-up, or squat correctly. They may have no desire to do it, but a smart man respects a worker no matter their profession. All the same, a bodybuilder would laugh their ass off at most CrossFitter's way of eating. As CrossFitters, if we paid half the mind to nutrition that the Gods of bodybuilding do we would reclaim that effort in spades. We would shock ourselves.
I work with dieters all over the world. I still frequently work with just bodybuilders who love watching CrossFit, but never want to do it. They will be the first to say, "I just don't want to work that hard", and I for one love their honesty. But over the years a common theme spreads in CrossFit as CrossFit spreads its common theme. Over the years more and more CrossFitters think they can out work a poor diet. Something bodybuilders know is quite futile, even disrespectful.
Does this mean you need to dial in 100% of your meals year round. No, it means you align your actions with your goals. It means you don't ever....and I #$%&ing mean ever tell me what you won't eat after you tell me what you want to look like. Do you understand how absolutely asinine that sounds? In the same breath of your dream lies your road block. In the same game you show your hand and lose the bet.
My first ever diet coach smacked me on the back of the head the first time I said "I can't eat that", and I mean smacked hard. He said "then your a liar, and you don't want to win". I very rarely feel small, that day I was so small I was invisible.
All bodybuilders know this like gospel, and most CrossFitters do, or are at least they are getting it. But for the rest who still think they are unique pretty snowflakes, and that they are the only humans alive who can out work a shitty diet, your wrong. You can't beg your trainer to help you get somewhere in one sentence, then in the very next phrase utter the limitations of what you will do to get their.
We can't negotiate results. We either are willing to do the work others have been doing for decades, or we can keep turning our wheels complaining how those last stubborn pounds won't come off, when the world knows pounds aren't stubborn, people are.
Strength:
Rest
For Time:
1-Rope Climb
7-Swings 55/75
3 Rounds
then
30-Dips
then
12-Wall ball
8-Burpees
3 Rounds
then
15-Dips
Auxiliary:
Skin The Cat
3x8
L-Sit
4min-Tabata
Post impressions and time to comments.
Love it Josh!! I'm reposting on Facebook, and possibly some of my clients pages too!!! Oh, and I would never dream of telling you something that I can't eat - yikes!! heheheh :o)
Posted by: Gemma | September 21, 2011 at 09:48 PM
Point taken ;)
Posted by: amelia | September 21, 2011 at 10:43 PM
Great post!
Posted by: chastity | September 21, 2011 at 11:03 PM
14:47
Chas!
DNF on auxillary
Posted by: runmelrun | September 22, 2011 at 06:43 AM
13:42(m)
(purple banded dips_
(35kb rds 1&2, 45kb rd 3- thanks Chas...I needed that push!)
Is it possible for me to work today- without lifting my arms?? :)
Posted by: nikki j | September 22, 2011 at 06:55 AM
14:49
Thanks for playing my song Chas ;)
Posted by: Mo | September 22, 2011 at 07:50 AM
15:29M
Purple band for pull ups
35# kettle bell
10# wall ball
Posted by: Carrie | September 22, 2011 at 08:40 AM
12 something (m) emma worked out with me and her time was 10 something.
Plus auxiliary work.
Posted by: terra | September 22, 2011 at 01:36 PM
15:09 m
Posted by: holly | September 22, 2011 at 01:57 PM
7:30
Posted by: jb | September 22, 2011 at 09:39 PM
12:39(m)
Posted by: JN | September 22, 2011 at 10:21 PM
7:51 thanks for pushing me JB your pace was fast
Posted by: Sammy | September 22, 2011 at 11:15 PM
12:06 (m)
Posted by: Shelly | September 23, 2011 at 09:21 AM