Comments on: Crossfit in the Airport

By: Joshua McClure

Joshua McClure — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 23:42:52 +0000

Dude, Ty! I saw your arm definition. I remember a year? or so ago you and Evan walked into my office and you were rail thin. I thought you were sick. You had just started the vegan thing.

Awesome.

By: asqui

asqui — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 06:58:52 +0000

Nice one! I just posted about Violating Cultural Constraints but it seems you’re taking things to a new level…

One question: How did you guys get into the president’s club?! Surely you haven’t done enough flying for that yet since you’re at the start of your journey… or did you just buy a membership from the start, so you could travel (and stay fit) in style?

By: Todd

Todd — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 03:49:31 +0000

Cova, see you there.

By: Allen

Allen — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 15:25:12 +0000

Jay, crossfit is essentially high intensity cardio with olympic lifts added in, and very few isolation exercises. It’s geared heavily towards performance. Check out the videos at http://www.gymjones.com if you want to see what some of the top guys can do. Again, they’re not always huge but they can do some crazy stuff. This is essentially what the military uses for training.

By: Jeffrey

Jeffrey — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 15:03:28 +0000

ill join you for the climb up patagonia…

By: Jay

Jay — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 22:10:27 +0000

Thanks Tynan. Much respect for trying it out. I do get in the gym regularly, so it won’t be too much of a jump for me. In your case, you have to do what you need when you’re travelling!

Can we look forward to pictures of you guys doing Crossfit in the Panamanian jungle?

By: admin

admin — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 21:15:42 +0000

Jay,

I’ve definitely made huge gains. In four months I’ve gone from 0 muscle definition to very significant muscle definition. I gained about 15 pounds in the beginning because I was eating enough, but I found it hard to maintain that high level of eating.

For most exercises I now push twice as much weight as I did when I started. I may have gone a little easy on myself in the beginning, so let’s say 50% more to be safe.

I’ve been totally thrilled with Crossfit, as have my friends. I’d definitely recommend trying it for a couple months and seeing what kind of gains you get.

Tynan

By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 20:11:01 +0000

You guys should check out “The Naked Warrior” by Pavel Tsatsouline. When your entire workout is one-armed pushups and one-legged squats, you can work out anywhere and get tremendously strong.

By: Name Required

Name Required — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 18:27:56 +0000

You guys should check out never gymless. It’s somewhat similar, but targeted towards gymless, travelling people like you.

By: Jay

Jay — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 13:47:54 +0000

No offense there Tynan my man, but I see no noticeable Crossfit effect in your physical body. That’s not to say that you’re not significantly stronger than before, but in terms of muscle mass gain, do you still recommend Crossfit?

And this is not only you: 99% of the people on the Crossfit blogs are not large, and some look downright scrawny. What’s the big deal? Am I missing something here? These exercises look like warm-ups to me. Child’s play.

It’s a gimmick in my opinion – and a quite expensive one at that. If you compare Crossfit memberships across the country with normal gym fees, you’ll see that in some cities its double or even triple the price. Look at the regulars at the gyms; now look at the dudes at Crossfit. One difference: muscles.

And Crossfit runs all these hokey competitions and forums for this “training,” sort of like a club of its own. Let’s call it what it is: resistance training. Cardio. It’s the same thing, except with Crossfit you stay skinny it seems

I have failed to grasp what Crossfit does differently.