Has anyone ever tried the CrossFit Endurance program? (www.crossfitendurance.com)
I've been doing CrossFit for about a year and just got back into swimming recently. I'm considering giving up my long swim practices for CFE and doing the single sport swim program from their site.
I'd love to hear what anyone thinks about the program, especially if you've ever tried it.
Thanks! :)
Our club team has been doing crossfit for about 10 months now, and while I agree that the "WODs" as they call them (workout of the day) are normally not good for swimming, but our workouts have morphed into swimming specific crossfit excercises. The biggest thing about crossfit for us is the stretching. in an hour workout, we spend 35-40 minutes doing warm-up and stretching. The core workout is only about 20 minutes tops. A lot of the WODs would be way to stressful for a swimmer's shoulders or knees (the joints that get a lot of the work in swimming), but our swimming specific workouts are still crossfit at heart, but don't over stress the joints/muscles.
(to each his own of course, but I am one who swears by it. crossfit has helped to improve my swimming)
Our club team has been doing crossfit for about 10 months now, and while I agree that the "WODs" as they call them (workout of the day) are normally not good for swimming, but our workouts have morphed into swimming specific crossfit excercises. The biggest thing about crossfit for us is the stretching. in an hour workout, we spend 35-40 minutes doing warm-up and stretching. The core workout is only about 20 minutes tops. A lot of the WODs would be way to stressful for a swimmer's shoulders or knees (the joints that get a lot of the work in swimming), but our swimming specific workouts are still crossfit at heart, but don't over stress the joints/muscles.
(to each his own of course, but I am one who swears by it. crossfit has helped to improve my swimming)
