Jocko Willink's Thoughts on CrossFit - Jocko Willink and Echo Charles

so what do you think about CrossFit scenes you do a lot of the same movements and workout schemes so CrossFit I think CrossFit is a is a solid base for things I also think that CrossFit actually deserves a pretty good amount of credit for getting the general populace of the world moving in the right direction when it comes to fitness I've been doing crossfit type stuff before there was such a thing as CrossFit I mean the movements that you use in CrossFit are movements that have been invent anything new right but they did reintroduce it's kind of like the Gracie family to be honest with you and and there's you know both the Gracie family and CrossFit in my opinion are responsible for really a paradigm shift in those two arenas the arena fitness and the arena of martial arts if you looked at martial arts in the 70s and the 80s what was it it was told it was karate it was kung fu it was Aikido it was traditional martial arts it was not full-contact sparring it was it was just radically different than what it is now median that came from the Gracie family who created the UFC and broadcasted and got the information out there and spread the word of jiu-jitsu which part of jiu-jitsu and part of the UFC is that you have to learn to wrestle and you have to learn to strike so that all kind of came afterwards but it's all related to the initial the initial birth of of UFC and Gracie jiu-jitsu and that's the same thing in my opinion with CrossFit you know CrossFit again or people doing Olympic lifting years ago yes they were but it's a very small if you okay you look at the the martial arts schools in the 70s look at Fitness places in the in the 70s and 80s it was those weird you know machines and aerobic stuff and the thing that women would like tie around their stomachs and would like shake them I mean just all kinds of bizarre bizarre stuff and that's just stuff that was just ineffective and so I think CrossFit deserves credit for spreading you know the the knowledge of squatting and cleaning jerks and pull-ups and muscle ups and all those things and so you know again I like I said it's you've got their word decathletes before CrossFit there were Olympic lifters gymnasts before CrossFit and those people were incredibly fit but CrossFit popularized those activities and those exercises more than anybody else was able to I mean CrossFit is popular and jiu-jitsu is popular I mean if you look at the number of jujitsu schools and CrossFit boxes in the country they're probably of the same growth pattern so I definitely give CrossFit credit for bringing that kind of well-balanced fitness to the forefront and I think the programming you know is fine for me it's a little bit too random I like stuff to be a little bit more scheduled I guess you could say and sometimes I need more volume than what they have and I think you need more focus to get really good at some things you need to focus trait CrossFit would prescribe I think that you know now people realize you know for a while they kind of held the line of like no all you need to do is what it says to do on the CrossFit workout of the day just like in the beginning jiu-jitsu Gracie jiu-jitsu said all you need to do is just do gracie jiu-jitsu and clearly both those attitudes are wrong you know what you really need to do is get that base and then open your mind open your mind up and you get to know yourself what you're you get to know your own physicality after a while and then you know what your weaknesses are you know what hurts you and you know what you can do more of and you know what you should do less of so I think that as a base you know like if someone just randomly says you know hey I never worked out before what should I do I think CrossFit is a fine place to point you know there's some other really good stuff out there but you know if you it costs what's a good one and I think it's a good starting point it's gonna teach you the basics of squats and pull-ups and dips and there's gonna be a million people that are gonna say they don't really teach you Olympic lifting properly and you need to learn better form I get it right don't if you want to learn to be an Olympic lifter the CrossFit is not gonna be the best place to learn to be an Olympic lifter you need to go get an Olympic lifting coach if you want to be a great gymnast you need to get a gymnastics coach but if you want an introduction to stuff a basic introduction then I think it's a solid four and again I think you need to give it credit for what it did and then most important you need to keep an open mind that things change and you will you have to change we all have to change and adapt and grow and evolve so that you can become better so that's my opinion yeah the CrossFit undeniably what it what it did is took working out and some CrossFit workouts can be hard I did CrossFit for a little bit and even for someone who's like in pretty good shape like they can be hard and what an element of CrossFit that I'm not sure if this was intended from the beginning but it got this way quick is is kind of the group so our environment you know so what it did was it turned it into acting now it's a sport it's a straight-up sport now and it really all it is is exercising the sport of exercising being the guy who wins the CrossFit Games what's he called the fittest guy he's fit so it brought Fitness into this more of an activity to do rather than okay you got to do this shorty kind of you got a workout it made it into like an activity like boom and not just okay I'm gonna go do some easy stuff with you know the girls on the weekend it's it's for real you know like a hard workout gonna put you through you get in a group in a CrossFit situation and they're gonna be yelling supporting you and it's way easier to stick with a workout program when you have people supporting you and they support you like for real support you they're yelling how you finish beneficial all this stuff and you're way more likely to achieve success rather than someone's like oh here you're gonna make it to the gym today oh yeah maybe maybe not or whatever and they give you good guidance so again it made it made Fitness one quote Fitness be popular you know this is this cool thing you know and a community you know in a way that I don't it's I mean like you said there's there was already some of these but they're like okay bodybuilding and you know I don't know maybe summer aerobics but it didn't have that sense of community like yeah that's it there's so much more part I mean you look at a company like rogue fitness yeah I mean they didn't exist I don't know five years ago but he will like I have my old squat rack thing was ancient right and it was kind of hard to get back in the day you want to squat rack now boom well rope fitness is a boom oh there you go yeah they're gonna send it to you it's gonna show up in your house and in three days yeah and they're selling hundreds of thousands of them I'm sure and and why is that they're selling rings they're selling boxes for boxers are just bumper plates bumper plates used to be you'd never see them like I had well I'd bumper plates in the Y where I grew up yeah and there was you know two guys that would actually Olympic lifts and you go oh wow that's cool but never in the gym now you go to hate almost any gym now no no hey almost I shouldn't say that because the the 24-hour fitness type Globo gyms if they do oh do that oh yeah I've been in one of the long time in there's over here and I said 24-hour Fitness membership I'll go there you know from time to time yeah all of them have straight up you know protein Greg yeah he's a trainer and he's at the Balboa one big full-on Bray you want to get a courier cross been on you can go to 24 Hour Fitness versus more crowded that's different the culture is different right which is a big part of CrossFit as well but facility wise oh yeah bumpers all up in there yeah so that's that's that's all thanks to CrossFit right yeah that's exactly your point you know good deal

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Length: 8min 49sec (529 seconds)

Published: Mon Sep 30 2019

Reddit Comments

[u/FullSend28]

Kind of what you'd expect given that CrossFit has always been really popular in the Teams.

[u/cleboomusic]

Thougthful connection between CrossFit & The Gracie Family.

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