All you can eat Stec

So I’ve decided I’m still going run, bike, lift - and do all that other stuff, but I’m taking it to another direction:  Crossfit.  I’ve been doing some research and this kind of thing is really what I want to do.

Here’s some things that piqued my interest from their website:

" CrossFit is the principal strength and conditioning           program for many police academies and tactical operations teams,           military special operations units, champion martial artists,           and hundreds of other elite and professional athletes worldwide.

"Our program delivers a fitness that is, by design, broad, general,           and inclusive. Our specialty is not specializing. Combat, survival,           many sports, and life reward this kind of fitness and, on average,           punish the specialist."

And another part that was very interesting from the website:

"CrossFit is in large part derived from several simple observations garnered through hanging out with athletes for thirty years and willingness, if not eagerness, to experiment coupled with a total disregard for conventional wisdom. Let me share some of the more formative of these observations:
1. Gymnasts learn new sports faster than other athletes.
2. Olympic lifters can apply more useful power to more activities than other athletes.
3. Powerlifters are stronger than other athletes.
4. Sprinters can match the cardiovascular performance of endurance athletes even at extended efforts.
5. Endurance athletes are woefully lacking in total physical capacity.
6. With high carb diets you either get fat or weak.
7. Bodybuilders can’t punch, jump, run, or throw like athletes can.
8. Segmenting training efforts delivers a segmented capacity.
9. Optimizing physical capacity requires training at unsustainable intensities.
10. The world’s most successful athletes and coaches rely on exercise science the way deer hunters rely on the accordion."

So I’m going to give it a shot.  It’s like a big wormhole:  There’s so much information and workouts — they do everything different — and I am not nearly the shape to finish the workouts anywhere these guys do, but they say that they have old men doing it so I’m going to give it a stab.  I’m going to learn as much as I can -

This really looks like the direction I want to go.

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