In Fitness and in Health

[Chris]

I've known too many people that love Crossfit and have had great results with it to say anything bad about it, except this:
"Crossfit is a lot like reverse Fight Club.  Because the first rule of Crossfit is to never shut the fuck up about Crossfit."
-Mike Mulloy

[Anesthetist]

@Chris:

I've known too many people that love Crossfit and have had great results with it to say anything bad about it, except this:
"Crossfit is a lot like reverse Fight Club.  Because the first rule of Crossfit is to never shut the fuck up about Crossfit."
-Mike Mulloy

Man, ain't that the truth. You gotta have tee shirts, tattoos, and bumper stickers too.

[bagley920]

I've heard good and bad. Good being that it's hard and you work your ass off. Bad being they don't really care or correct bad form

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[DanielAFC]

Your second point is the key to focus on.

Try working out at home, and do it every day. Learn some basic yoga routines, focus on breathing and proper form. Do exercises that focus on individual muscle groups with light weight or no weight. I've seen pistol squats break guys who could lift a ton with their legs. Do everything rep wise based off of what you can do on your weaker limb, and only do that much on your strong one. Focus on technique. Stretch. All the time. Stretch in the shower, stretch in the morning, stretch at night. Use a foam roller daily. Combine this with quarterly 2hr massages ( massage therapists need the first hour just to open your muscles up to work on them)

Combine this with something that you love, like cycling, trail running, basketball, football (soccer). Anything that gets you outside and being active and having fun.

Do this, and combine it with good food and your body will become a tool to do everything you could ever want to do, to your fullest ability

Edit: sorry for the rantish post.  I just get a bit worked up, as good fitness is easy, and I believe everyone should have it. All you really need is  45 minutes of daily commitment(spread out over the day), good diet and doing things you love

[bagley920]

I have a gym membership but I've never been that guy that can run on the treadmill for hours on end. I have grown the love the rowing machine though

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[Chris]

Concept 2, by chance?

I have a love/hate relationship with my Model C.

[bagley920]

Yep, sure was. I use it on 8 and can normally only go about 10 mins before my whole body starts to burn!

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[derivative666]

Skogg System!!!! Go get some kettlebells

[Chris]

^I endorse this post.

[bagley920]

I have one but don't think it's heavy enough. It's only 20lbs

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[Chris]

The one I use most frequently is 36 lbs, (1 pood) but I have bells from 20 to 72 lbs.  The nice thing about bells is that you don't need lots of them.  I could probably cut down to 3-4 and be just fine.

[bagley920]

If you want to unload a few of yours Chris let me know. I'll pay for shipping too

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[Finn666]

@derivative666:

Skogg System!!!! Go get some kettlebells

this…need to do this as well!

[derivative666]

So start with that learn the techniques and then buy another. Technique is the most important thing when learning to swing.

[DougNg]

@Chris:

The one I use most frequently is 36 lbs, (1 pood) but I have bells from 20 to 72 lbs.  The nice thing about bells is that you don't need lots of them.  I could probably cut down to 3-4 and be just fine.

I thought you were doing Virtual Skogg?

I do a lot of double bell work now, and have 17 bells total. Still, in the grand scheme of things, not that much equipment for a total body workout system

[Chris]

I am back to doing VS after some serious slacking over the past few months.  Finally started running again, too.

Most of the first 40 or so Skogg workouts are single bell,  which gives me plenty of variety without needing to go to a pair of bells.  If I really wanted to streamline, I'd either skip the double bell workouts or modify them to single bell movements.  Then I could easily keep myself to 4 bells or so, rather than the 9 I have now.  I think if I kept the 20, 36, 45 and either the 54 or 72, I'd be just fine.

More bells are nice though; it's good to have the flexibility to easily go heavier or lighter, depending on what mood I'm in.

[Finn666]

ok, so what bells (and how many of each) would you guys recommend?
think i'm going to give this a try at least…

[DougNg]

I usually tell people that they should start with a 25 unless they're in great shape both strength and conditioning wise. I'm using a 45 most of the time, and I still use my 25lb as a warm up bell

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[derivative666]

I use 12 & 16kg

[Chris]

This is what Doug has (go back and read the full post for lots good info):
@DougNg:

I've really gotten into kettlebells now, so with the Virtual Skogg workouts, you need more bells. Ultimately (adding more as funds are available) I will have a 10, two 15s, a 20, two 25s, two 35s, two 45s, two fifties, one sixty, one seventy, and one eighty. I will use all of them regularly (I might even get doubles of the higher weights eventually, not sure). Note, Cap Barbell is an American company so they have their bells in lbs, many companies use the traditional "poods", and measure in half pood increments, which is about 8kg.

Since your pictures indicate that you're a pretty strong guy, I'd recommend starting with just one bell, in the 12-15 kg range.  Learn the basic moves, figure out form, decide if you like it.  After that, you can add weights as you need to.  No sense in buying a dozen bells and then deciding you need to get rid of them 6 months later because you don't ever use them.

EDIT: Doug and Jeff beat me to it.  That's what happens when you have to stop typing a post for 20 minutes to break up a sandbox battle between children.  Spring break isn't fun for adults.