confession i would never do crossfit for exercise but slamming

"ok"

why can't they just have a sledgehammer class

not even a class, just a place where you can fucking go hammer that tire for hours

please someone start a hammerfit club

>>39663876
Confession. Ive never done crossfit but i have beat a tire with a sledgehammer. Its fun.

>>39663876
What does this exercise even do?

>>39663935
conditioning.

>>39663935
make you feel so powerful

>>39663935
it's called functional strength

>>39663876
This shit is dumb as fuck. Did it recently, completely pointless.

>>39663935
cardio?

>>39663876
we doing confessions?

i use the hex bar

>>39663966
weak bait

>>39663876

>not being fit enough to hit the sledgehammer with a tire

>>39663996
>thinking functional strength vs gym rat strength is bait
>when you go full meme

>>39663876
It sounds dangerous, as someone who has wielded a sledgehammer for actual manual labor I cannot imagine literally bouncing it off rubber as being either fun or as valuable as hitting something hard and feeling it give in to your mighty blows
>no homo.

>>39663876
Its not a bad exercise and a lot of mma fighters do it. Of course the average poster here thinks its pointless because its not squat/deadlift/bench.

it's not a purebreed crossfit exercise, it's been in use in boxing for years before crossfit

Golf swinging a sledge is much more potent than that overhead shit. Crossfit should just implement weighted gold clubs and see how far you can shoot the ball with a 60pound driver.

>>39664033
It is fucking pointless.

Not only that, it's also extremely bad for your fucking joints, easy to injure yourself with and is generally dangerous overall.

Why on earth would you do this when you can actually do a fucking real exercise with better results, less risk and healthier joints?

>>39664104
Cause when you've been lifting for more than a few months the same shit starts to get boring

>>39664104
If it was pointless professional athletes wouldnt be doing it. But what do they know? Im sure you are far more qualified because you read the sticky and did a strength training routine for 4 months.

just do woodsplitting

since i got a functioning fireplace i've been sawing, hauling and splitting wood. great stuff.

for me this isn't an exercise it's a fucking lifestyle

i want to spend all day just me and my tire, hammering it out you know

like when i have a shit day at work or my girl leaves me or i miss a PR i can just go home and whale on that motherfucker

>>39664104
>Landwhale detected

>>39663935

compound exercises, it's basically the same as squatting

>>39663979
Yeah, but fun since you can do HIIT.

>>39664135
which "professional athletes" do it?

a few juiced up MMA fighters? Oh I forgot, MMA fighters are known to train for their strength and appearance, right?

Fuck is wrong with you?

>>39664104
>>39664213
Yo fatty, go back to your SS/GOMAD. Your legs are already lacking.

>>39664213
>2016
>Being this ignorant

ISHYGDDT

>>39664135

>If it was pointless professional athletes wouldnt be doing it.

They don't, not for their real training. You think the ripped guys advertising crossfit programs actually got big using crossfit? Fuck no, the gym hired them because they were already big, to lie on TV

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>>39663876
If I could just chop and split wood all fucking day, I'd love that.

>>39663996
Alsruhe does them, he won Maryland strongest man. Should you be doing them everyday? No but it's useful to mix up your conditioning

>>39664138
Thanks man, for letting me know I'm not the only one on this board who has ever done actual labor.

>>39663876
>get a side job in deconstruction
>get paid to swing a sledgehammer around for a few hours everyday.

>>39664135
Don't use mma fighters, or any martial artists as good examples on how to exercise. Even at the highest level there are people that believe in the craziest pseudoscience it's fucking insane. Not matter the art, unless it's really basic shit no one agrees with anyone on how to do anything. There are still boxing coaches at the highest fucking level that think lifting a weight will make you slow and useless even though it's bullshit. Mma gyms are just as bad

>>39664259
come to my house. I have two giant fucking trees laying behind my garage that need to be chopped.

>>39664312
No matter the art*

>>39664213
I know Fedor does it and my father told me it was a great exercise and he did it a lot as a boxer.
>>39664242
Yeah their real training actually consists of Starting Strength
>>39664312
Yeah you probably know more than them, after all you browse /fit/ which means you know everything about fitness.

>>39664242
Yeah bro anyone thats bigger/more ripped than you is on roids and the only real way of exercising is lifting barbells.

>>39664329
What state? I'm in Minneapolis.

>>39663876
>fun
It looks boring and retarded

>>39664391
It's is fun, I'm not surprised you're unaware of that though.

>>39664353
Dude fuck off, you're a pretentious faggot. I know the benefits of axe chops and hitting a tire for fighting are great, and nearly everyone does them but fuck off with your idea that the majority of mma/boxers fighters do crossfit. I've boxed in amateurs and I'm a muay thai practitioner. I doubt you've fucking stepped in the ring in actual competition

>>39663876
I'm scared it would bounce back and hit me in the face

>>39663935
Ippo did it for max back gainz.

>>39664033
Most of us are retarded tho
Throwing medicine balls on each others stomachs to brace for punches and shit
Fucking faggots ruining my sport with their meme training

>>39664372

I never said they did roids, but yes, heavy, low rep resistance training is the only way to get really strong

>>39664642
1. I NEVER said actual mma fighters do crossfit. I was mainly talking about the sledge hammer exercise. I think crossft is bs like any reasonable man.
2. You are right never competed in a boxing ring but i did compete in wrestling and i competed in tkd until i was 16. Im not some crossfit fag talking about mma ive actually done martial arts throughout my life.
I did box for a little and did bjj for 2 years but never actually went to competition for either of them.

>>39664695
You are right but strength is not the only component when it comes to being an athlete. If it was athletes would only be doing powerlifting but they dont. Most do both strength training AND conditioning work like sledgehammer shit.

I did it. I learned about it from Ross Training. It taxes the body, and burns the forearms.

Ever since I joined a conservation/woodland society I think I've made gains in my forearms via cutting down trees/digging drains.

Seems like it gets the bits conventional weightlifting misses. But try to be doing something useful rather than fucking crossfit.

>>39664735
There are much safer and more effective forms of HIIT such as sprints and swimming

>>39663935
obliques, core, and forearms would be hit the most I think.

>>39664762
Swinging a sledgehammer isnt crossfit. I dont know why people think crossfit has invented this exercise when in reality its been doing for a long time.
>>39664777
Neither of those tax the body that much.

>>39664711
You had me thinking you were completely retarded there for a bit, now I know you're only partially retarded for doing tkd

>>39664828
I'm more just saying crossfit is retarded.

>>39664835
It was a fun thing to do as a kid and I got really fit with it. It doesnt directly translate into fighting ability but by itself its a really good sport.
Also things like footwork and being fast on your feet translated really well into boxing when I first started.
>>39664866
I think we can all agree on that.

>>39663876
that's how fighters train. shit like hammering a tire.

>>39663935
working concrete one summer I had to pound wooden stakes into the ground very frequently, we have a hard clay soil where I live and I can tell you I got tough as fuck that year.

If there wasn't such a stigma attached to straight men doing this I would gladly go to a beautician to help me with my skin.

Also, a perfectly done pedicure/foot treatment is very appealing. My number 1 worst personal care thing to do is taking care of my feet/toenails.

>>39665181
fucking faggot go kill yourself

>>39664373
How're you holdin up. It's so cold.

>>39665208
It's a lot to suddenly get used to. It was so unseasonably warm until pretty recently, and even then it was only off and on cold. Now it's how it should be, but it feels much colder than it is.

>>39663935
What it does is fucks your wrists up.

>>39665181
Your gay as shit

>>39663935
>So what made you get into webDev?
Well I was going to do a trade but I heard it really fucks up your joints in the long run.
>I saw you throwing chalk in your bag, you workout alot?
Yeah I pay to go to a crossfit gym where I bang on a giant tire with a sledgehammer for like 45mins :^)
>What?...
It's for functional strenght

>>39663876
business idea:
buy a sledgehammer and a big tire

>>39663935
Flattens tires.

Is tire flipping a meme? I want to do it on my off days since it looks fun. I dont want to go out and haul a big tire to my land only to be told its shit like sledgehammers are.

>>39664213
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDrwBnpL-Do

>>39663996
> He thinks standing still to lift heavy objects in set increments will make him functionally strong in today's world

>>39663935
Simulates menial labour so you can get swole like working class americans

>>39663876
I've used a hammer on a tyre before, flipped it down a spirts hall a few times then wacked the shit out of it, it's harder than it looks.