US Tactical CrossFit
May 17, 2010 · Print This Article
US Tactical, the pioneers of the Navy SEAL Mentor Program, offer CrossFit training at a new state of the art facility in Encinitas, CA. CrossFit is the ideal training regimen for those who wish to raise their fitness level dramatically.
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This training is nothing new….. I was doing this type of training 25 years ago. Some one comes along and calls it crossfit.. typical marketing ploy!
@ppkkss222 haha. I was going to say the same thing before I saw your post.
@5tron why? they’re actually doing workouts that ADD athletic ability and functional muscle mass and strength. you just go home and look in the mirror.
I just had another what should have been leg workout ruined by crossfitters. They hog up the squat racks for a good 30 minutes doing God knows what. Squat/deadlift heavy or get away from the rack.
I FUCKING LOVE CROSSFIT!!!
all I’m going to say is I’m using CrossFit to get ready for Special Forces Assesment, and it has improved my strength, speed, flexibility, and over all attitude towards life and fitness. It works well, but you must do it correctly, and that means with intensity.
didnt say that the mind is the only thing i said that having lots of muscle doesnt mean that your mind knws how to use it in different workouts. learn to read son.
the jump is still that same motion just starting from a different point, its really not that difficult of a concept.
seems like you are advertising the program, rather poorly too.
I don’t give a shit what you find suspicious, you can’t even use spell check. You’re sad with your dumbass theory on PRETENDING to be a youtube reader. Pretty obvious I’m not really pretending. Also, almost every statement about physical adaptation to weight is incorrect. Your mind can tell you to lift the weight, but without muscle mass it won’t happen. Nobody does a full squat to jump. And a SEAL didn’t come up with CrossFit, Greg Glassman did. And I didn’t advertise my gym did I.
i find it very suspicious that you brother is a Recon marine especially sense this workout routine is made by so called SEALs.
Kinda sad that you guys have to advertise on U-Tube by pretending to be readers.
cross fit is nice because it forces you to do Olympic lifts which most gym noobs avoid like the plege and just do b-curls n b-press and then ask why are they still little bitches.
i dont actually have much of a problem with CrossFit i was just asking if it work that one dude said no.
you gave squats as an example. squats are great to improve your jump because it is pretty much exactly the same motion as the jump. If you where doing quad extensions you would not improve your jump very much if at all.
if you took that atheistic and made him do lunges or one leg squats he would run faster then if he just did dead lifts.
Lifting weight also prevents injury but some lifts are better then others so it important to tailor the workout to much the sport/activity.
hmm, yes and no.
some workout help while other do not. Strength is not just muscle mass (which you get from lifting) it the ability of your brain to used that muscle. If all you do is one excursive your mind will knw how to use that muscle when doing the excursive but it doesnt knw how to use that muscle when you are doing something else.
Funny thing is, I wasn’t a hater at first. I found the site back in 04, was intrigued, tried it and finally started doing it on a regular basis. But then I was tasked to do something that I had typically never had a problem with, but found myself a total lush. I was weak and in pain. I ditched cf and went back to a program that had proven itself. 6 months later, I’m setting 19 year bests on my lifts, am more flexible and pain free. It was a very poor fit for me.
Lifting weights makes you stronger, that shows up in everything if you are doing functional lifts. Football players don’t lift to get better at lifting, they do so because strength helps everything. I can take an athlete, have him do deadlifts and he’ll get faster. Squats will make you jump higher. O-lifts will make you more explosive, etc.
Carryover to what? I train athletes (from volleyball players to high school/college wrestlers) and I have never done a program where the carryover was as substantial. I used to be a hater myself, but my brother (Recon Marine) told me to shut up and try it for 2 weeks. I did performance enhancing drugs in the past and spent hours a day training, and Crossfit blew them away. I say to you try it 2 days a week for a couple weeks and see what happens. Just make sure you’re doing it correctly.
thanks, dude!
cross fit has no carryover. trust me.
you understood what the article was saying, sjktss has no clue what he is saying
sounds to me that you have no clue what your talking about,
yep. crossfit is AMAZING. if you’ve ever done it as part of any sort of fit routine its the SHIT
Based on your comments, Sjktss, I feel that you’ve probably never done more than watch a few Crossfit video posts. I’m also curious how many mil guys you know and how long they “tried” Crossfit before they “ditched” it for lack of “carryover.” Crossfit training is all about carryover. Frankly, what i hear is a lot of “it’s probably like this” or “it seems like” from people who have never done it. Pretty typical armchair warrior stuff. Classic internet Trolls.
after testing the participants strength in different exercises and measured their muscle mass. they put the participants on strict exercise routine. which was to only do squads. needless to say the participents improve by about 70%. what is surprising is that leg extension did not improve at all even thought the quads where much stronger.
ill massage you the article c what you make of it, maybe i understood it differently then you would.
thats cool, i was just telling you of the article i read.
yes working out has many health benefits as you obviously knw. i was referring more to strength in particluler. As it turns out bigger muscle does not necessarily mean more strength. while yes if you bench often you would be stronger in the bench exercise but not much more.
for ex. in the article, they described an experiment they did…
sorry man, but i couldn’t disagree more. lifting has many benefits. lifting strengthens your ligaments and tendons which in turn prevents injuries. it obviously makes you stronger. and, if doing it for health, it continues to burn calories for many, many hours after you’ve completed your workout, more so than any aerobic type workout. cross fit has the potential to be a decent program, but they have to tackle a number of shortfalls.
so if you want to improve someones ability to carry a ruck for a long time you need to make him carry a heavy ruck for a long time or things that strongly resemble doing so. If you want to improve your punch you need to punch often, lifting weights would not do much for you.
lifting weight pretty much only improves your ability to lift weights and how you look, according to the article, which i kinda agree with.
thanx dude,
it does seem more like a stamina thing then general strength and power. Strength and power be what im interested in. Although it does seem like fun to mix things up everyday.
i read recently that working out (as in lifting) in general does not have much carry over to many things. pretty much, when doing benchpress for example you are ONLY improving bench press it doesnt really have much carry over for lets say punchin power or even chest fly.