July 28, 2007
Interview: Coach Greg Glassman, March 03 CFJ
CFJ: What’s wrong with fitness training today?
Coach Glassman: The popular media, commercial gyms, and general public hold great interest in endurance performance. Triathletes and winners of the Tour de France are held as paradigms of fitness. Well, triathletes and their long-distance ilk are specialists in the word of fitness, and the forces of combat and nature do not favor the performance model they embrace. The sport of competitive cycling is full of amazing people doing amazing things, but they cannot do what we do. They are not prepared for the challenges that our athletes are.
The bodybuilding model of isolation movements combined with insignificant metabolic conditioning similarly needs to be replaced with a strength and conditioning model that contains more complex functional movements with a potent systemic stimulus. Sound familiar? Senior citizens and U.S. Marine Combatant Divers both will most benefit from a program built entirely from functional movement.
I heart crossfit but isn't this topic a little stale?
I love the interview. This topic is never stale as the growth of the large scale gyms prove. Ive been practicing crossfit with my clients for six months and it is the most successful method in regards to both, physcial results and business profits.
Large gym's are the shittest, most overstated, underperforming phenomenon on earth, only equalled by babies "educational" DVD's.
Coach Greg is a modern philosopher, and a great fitness coach. What he is doing for the fitness industry is saving peoples health, lives and time.
Im constantly getting clients from gyms saying they have never worked so hard in their life - and they thank me for it - thank you Coach Glassman
