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THE FIRST CROSSFIT
STANDARD OF FITNESS
There are ten recognised general physical skills. They are cardiovascular/respiratory
endurance, stamina, strength, speed, flexibility, power, coordination,
agility, balance, and accuracy.
You are as fit as you are competent in each of these ten skills. A
regimen develops fitness to the extent that it improves each of these
ten skills.
Importantly, improvements in endurance, stamina, strength, and flexibility
come about through training.
THE SECOND CROSSFIT
STANDARD OF FITNESS
The essence of this model is the view that fitness is about performing
well at any and every task imaginable. This model suggests that your
fitness can be measured by your capacity to perform well at these tasks
in relation to other individuals.
The implication here is that fitness requires an ability to perform
well at all tasks, even unfamiliar tasks, tasks combined in infinitely
varying combinations. In practice this encourages the athlete to disinvest
in any set notions of sets, rest periods, reps, exercises, order of
exercises, routines, periodization, etc.
THE THIRD CROSSFIT
STANDARD OF FITNESS
There are three metabolic pathways that provide the energy for all
human action.
Total fitness, the fitness that CrossFit promotes and develops, requires
competency and training in each of these three pathways or engines.
Balancing the effects of these three pathways largely determines the
how and why of the metabolic conditioning or “cardio” that
we do at CrossFit.
Favoring one or two to the exclusion of the others and not recognising
the impact of excessive training in the oxidative pathway are arguably
the two most common faults in fitness training.
I don't think there's any doubt that Mark Twight's workouts are based on the CrossFit foundation. The controversy started when he began claiming the CF foundations as his own and selling it - see the .pdf article released from CFHQ here:
'Gym Jones' founder demonstrates his integrity: http://www.crossfit.com/cf-info/CrossFit_Mark-Twight.pdf
Full discussion in the comments of Friday 070323:
http://www.crossfit.com/mt-archive2/002121.html
As for Gym Jones being more hardcore than CrossFit... it's all in the image and attitude of Twight, not in the exercise prescription. CrossFit is as tough as you want it to be - use your imagination. You'll find a lot of the 'hardcore' exercises used by GJ are demonstrated in various CF journals (chains used on lifts, GHD kb presses, deep squats, etc).
I quite like the GJ site myself, it's interesting to see the prescribed workouts. Unfortunately the overwhelming attitude and ego just goes against everything that makes CrossFit so great :\
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