Video 1 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.