The instructor and some students who help me better understand my Crossfit experience patiently explained, "your endurance training is counter-intuitive to strength building". I don't quite understand what the words mean, so I asked for explanation and they went in to technique and food and other factors. I still didn't understand, so I will have to trust what they are saying until I understand how to exercise.
I train for OCR events mostly with running and obstacle type exercises with equipment I have available around the yard and on my running routes. I attend cross fit two days a week in hopes of building my strength for the sand bag and atlas stone carries, Hercules hoists, and other heavy lift events.
Reality is that I use the lightest weights in the entire gym. I am being crushed under empty weightless barbells while others are crushing 150lbs or more.
The earlier advice of my strength vs. endurance training starts is beginning to make sense and I am feeling more confident in my abilities. While they are training and nourishing for cross fit five days a week, I am running 25-30 miles a week on top of two days in the gym.
The good thing is that those in the class understand where I am and the reason I train; and they cheer me on and ask about my races. They keep an eye on me to let me know when and how to scale my weight, and they let me know that it's ok to use less weight and focus on technique.
Here's what we did today after warming up.
As many rounds and possible of the following in 20 minutes:
9 thrusters
9 pull ups
20 feet overhead dumbbell lunges each leg (one dumbbell)
10 shuttle burpees (burpee, side shuffle 20 feet, burpee, side shuffle 20 feet)
Rest 1 minute.
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