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Gym vs. CrossFit - which training method is more effective?
CrossFit has been a household name for several years now. CrossFit has sprouted up all over the world and is now one of the most popular sports of our modern age alongside training in the gym. This article first highlights the main differences between fitness and CrossFit, then attempts to restore the peace between the two and finally offers a new, unbiased view for all sporty and motivated readers.
If you want to push your body to its limits, and not just in terms of maximum strength or muscle development, you will find your happiness in a training method called CrossFit. Strength, speed, balance, coordination, endurance. CrossFit combines bodyweight exercises, exercises with weights and endurance training into one big whole and pits its participants against each other in countless competitions. The sport is considered so competitive because exercises are performed for time and number of repetitions. This is another reason why we often find groups of people training together, men and women, who pit their bodies and minds against each other.
High intensity
CrossFit is known for its high-intensity workouts that push every body to its limits. This is precisely why such training and an appropriate diet can result in rapid fat burning. As the CrossFit community is characterized by strong cohesion and new faces are always welcome, there are beginner courses for those interested, which slowly and carefully introduce you to the sport. Nevertheless, we would like to list two points here that should not be neglected: Firstly, there is a great risk of injury if exercises are performed incorrectly, as many exercises are characterized by their complexity. Secondly, you must not forget to give your body the necessary rest days, as overtraining is not a rare phenomenon due to high intensity.
However, if you are focusing on maximum muscle building, you are better off in the gym. CrossFit also leads to muscle building, but this goal is achieved faster and better in the gym. The gym is also better suited to treating injuries. Strengthening and stabilizing training is carried out here as part of physiotherapy. Using CrossFit as physiotherapy, on the other hand, would be both impossible and nonsensical.
But enough with differences and pigeonholing, let's focus on the essentials: is it necessary to view fitness and CrossFit as opposites?
Fitness studio vs. AND CrossFit?
Both aim to improve physical and mental fitness. Both types of sport are about overcoming your own limits and setting yourself new limits so that you can ultimately break them again. Anyone who stubbornly focuses on the individual and thus loses sight of the big picture is blocking themselves and their sporting development.
Honest as we are and with the intention of offering you new perspectives on rusty views, we'll throw the following statement into the room: combining fitness and CrossFit is a brilliant idea. Before anyone gets the idea to push this article away now, at least consider the following thoughts.
1. crossfit makes you stronger, more agile & livelier
If you don't believe it, try it for yourself. The increase in strength offers an obvious advantage for training in the gym. If you get stronger through CrossFit, you can also lift more weight in the gym and vice versa. A combination of both workouts allows for faster strength growth, more so than focusing on just one of the two sports. Flexibility is also an important factor, because moving a lot of weight and building up muscles inevitably stiffens the musculoskeletal system. Of course, there are other ways than CrossFit to remedy this problem. But if you're the kind of person who likes to work off all their energy, you're in the right place with this option. And for all those who feel tired and lacking in energy despite training hard in the gym: A combination with CrossFit will make you feel more alive. We promise.
2. crossfit is probably the most varied cardio workout
The intensity of CrossFit burns huge amounts of calories and opens a big door for anyone who doesn't like doing long cardio sessions in the gym. Nevertheless, you should start slowly with a single CrossFit unit per week alongside your regular studio training. Otherwise all the fun will quickly end in overtraining.
As with all sports, it is ultimately the nature of a person that determines our preference. People bursting with energy are more likely to be found in CrossFit than in the gym, but the exception proves the rule. Depending on the type and composition of the training, high-intensity training can also be done in the gym. As already mentioned and repeated again because of its importance: there is no room for stubbornness, especially in sport, where physical progression and personal development are the be-all and end-all. Development takes place when we can let go of old baggage and give new opportunities a chance.
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