WODs trash or sometimes useful?

[zapataxiv]

I know CF isn't exactly well respected around here and I am not tying to be a CFer
but what do you guys think about some of there more weight or bw focused WODs for conditioning or endurance or just a burn out to cap off a week?
stuff like Linda
cleans bench and deads done for time or a bw complex of pushups pull ups and bw squats for time?
or is it better just to look for other programming for work like that?

 

[deadshot138]

Some of them offer a decent conditioning alternative to hard running. I would avoid heavy barbell work done for time like Linda. That's a recipe for disaster, especially with an Olympic movement thrown in. Something like Cindy is fun and self-regulating.

 

[ROcknrollracing]

I know CF isn't exactly well respected around here and I am not tying to be a CFer
but what do you guys think about some of there more weight or bw focused WODs for conditioning or endurance or just a burn out to cap off a week?
stuff like Linda
cleans bench and deads done for time or a bw complex of pushups pull ups and bw squats for time?
or is it better just to look for other programming for work like that?

It is fine.

 

[maximus__]

I know CF isn't exactly well respected around here and I am not tying to be a CFer
but what do you guys think about some of there more weight or bw focused WODs for conditioning or endurance or just a burn out to cap off a week?
stuff like Linda
cleans bench and deads done for time or a bw complex of pushups pull ups and bw squats for time?
or is it better just to look for other programming for work like that?

Stuff like Murph etc is good a a hard test session, but I think anything with high volume lifting is pretty dumb.
Especially Oly lifting.

 

[zapataxiv]

I have tried Cindy and I basically ran it for half time as a burn out and it worked well for that
I haven't tried Murphy

what are some others y'all would recommend
I see one called three bars of death and that looked..... extreme

 

[deadshot138]

I have tried Cindy and I basically ran it for half time as a burn out and it worked well for that
I haven't tried Murphy

what are some others y'all would recommend
I see one called three bars of death and that looked..... extreme

Just look at www.wodwell.com and look for stuff. If it looks dumb, it probably is.

 

[Kforcer]

I know CF isn't exactly well respected around here and I am not tying to be a CFer
but what do you guys think about some of there more weight or bw focused WODs for conditioning or endurance or just a burn out to cap off a week?
stuff like Linda
cleans bench and deads done for time or a bw complex of pushups pull ups and bw squats for time?
or is it better just to look for other programming for work like that?

I mean, I think its fine as long as it doesn't injure you. Obviously, like basically any form of strenuous resistance training and exercise, it can yield results. It really doesn't seem that different than what I've seen a lot of combat athletes from various backgrounds do. At least when I was wrestling, the overall mantra behind conditioning, which was basically push yourself harder than everyone else so that you can push everyone else to their breaking point, isn't so different from what I take to be the underlying philosophy of crossfit. I would think that the mental intensity involved in a WOD could have a good carryover; I've found that doing something miserable as exercise can help me perform better with other exercises.

The main fear for me, again, would just be the potential to get injured doing certain things that require precision in a fatigued state.

 

[shadowmanifold]

I have been back at "metcon" type training for 3 weeks after taking 5 months off and I have really missed it. The high from finishing a 20-30 min brutal conditioning workout is just incredible.

I feel so good the next day too. I would say crossfit has been influential on me but I find the actual WODs to be mostly trash.

There is absolute nothing special about a WOD other than you can see what other people have done on them. If anything is special it is that they are programmed so to really follow them you have to join a crossfit gym.

Or you could just pick 3-5 movements you happen to like to make a circuit and do them for 20-30 minutes with a timer. No crossfit gym needed.

One I love is 20 kettlebell clean and press, 50 foot prowler push or sled drag, single arm row with a band off the sled.

Or 200m row, kettlebell clean and press, med ball slam, cable cross over.

Sometimes if I go to the gym early and no one is there, there is a series of machines in a row. Leg press, leg extension, pull down, chest press, shoulder press, dip machine. I just do one after the other as a circuit. Try to set a PR for the number of circuits in x amount of time.

For whatever reason, many people need some kind of appeal to authority fallacy to tell them to do just as random of workouts as above.

Really, this ancient Rich Franklin workout video is what got me started training like this. I think the crossfit popularity though convinced me to stick with it. Pretty sure when I watched that video on TV I thought it was completely crazy.