"Keep your 500 pound bench press, keep your four minute mile, give me the capacity to bench moderate weights at screaming heart rates and come back and do it again and again." Coach Greg Glassman
"Intensity is the independent variable most commonly associated with maximizing favorable adaptation to training." Coach Greg Glassman
Specialists need to run a 4 minutes mile or better to compete internationally, but they pay a price in reduced fitness. A specialist may want to bench press more than 500 pounds, but will pay a price in reduced fitness.
Athletes, parents, brothers, sisters, Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, Marines, firefighters, police officers, home makers ... in other words, the vast majority of Americans ... need to have a balanaced capacity of athletic adaptation. The generalists of the world will fare far better on average than the specialists when it comes to combat, sport, and life. http://www.crossfit.com/
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