Video 1 Transcript
CrossFit is actually my favorite way to work out now because I grew up always having a coach or someone telling me what to do, so it was always really hard for me making that transition from being on teams and having coaches and stuff like that to kind of being on your own and trying to like navigate the gym on your own. So since I've joined CrossFit, it has helped me to have that extra motivation of someone like watching you and telling you what to do. And it's not like too intimidating either, I don't think, especially if you're in the right gym with like the right environment. It can be super fun and it can be upbeat and it's just nice to have you all you have to do is show up and do what they ask you to do type of thing, like you don't have to plan everything out, which is really nice for me.
Video 2 Transcript
I considered doing CrossFit for quite a while before I had an injury in my back that was going to make all the running and jumping and things like that quite difficult. What I will say in the research that I've done with CrossFit is that it seems like an excellent way to move your body. It doesn't always seem like an excellent way to give certain muscle groups that are often used with very basic CrossFit movements a rest. In a traditional strength training split, you might have chest and triceps, back and biceps, and you get to cycle when you hit those things in order to allow for adequate rest and probably to prevent injury. When you do CrossFit, you use a lot of the same muscles for every workout every day and so it seems like a great way to keep the heart rate up, probably improve your cardiovascularity. However, it might not be the best for recovery and you can influence that with how often you do it and you could probably even individualize the workouts a little more if you wanted to.
