“Virtually every compound lift out there” already strengthens your “core”, no supplemental isometrics needed. Core is nothing but a bogus marketing concept. There is no way to exercise the core independent of the periphery and no need to even think about it if you do compound lifts properly.

100% wrong. This is the fundamental flaw of Crossfit. On the contrary, in order for the body to adapt to a stress, it needs to be pretty much the same thing each time with progressive loading. It’s the gradual increase that prevents your body from getting “lazy”. Building muscle is like building a skin callus. If you do the same thing in a moderate enough dose and gradually increase you get a callus, if you do randomly different, super-intense things every time, you get blisters and skin tears.

Studies have been done on Crossfit. Surveys find injury rates of over 70%. A controlled 10 week study found improvements in VO2max and fat loss, but no strength gain, and an astronomical 16% dropout rate due to injury… in ten weeks, with all exercise done under trainer supervision. That’s many times higher than competitive football, even. Insane!

You’re not considering muscles’s role in oxygen consumption during exercise. More mass = more O2 consumption = higher metabolic rate.

Muscle mass’s effect on metabolism is overrated. About 80% of your BMR is fueling your internal organs. Protein synthesis accounts for the remaining 20%. Muscles burn 5 calories per lb per day, so if you put on 10 lbs of muscle you’ll raise your BMR about 50 Calories. Significant yes but not huge.

Funny that they have the sentence “Basically the bench press does have its place in a properly structured
program” in an article titled “5 Most Overrated Exercises You Can Stop Doing”.

Are you sure calling someone an idiot isn’t”hate speech”in the UK ? Can’t you be arrested for not being PC there ? And you call an American an idiot ? Speaking one dialect of English or another is the least of your problems.

louise, you definitely forgot about Ireland (northern Ireland and ROI – republic of Ireland)…and the UK … Northern Ireland and England are in UK… so stop calling someone an idiot unnecessarily

You can add weight to planks, making them more effective – or simply implement the “up and down plank”
Hanging leg raises, while not the most effective exercise for a strength athlete, are borderline essential for highly sought after V tapered abs

And finally, leg extension – your argument is moot as you devalue it for being an isolation exercise. Assuming an individual has an understanding of the importance of the squat, leg extensions can be added as an invaluable accessory for strength athletes with quad dominant (narrow) squats, or even front squats. Not to mention it’s a useful exercise for developing an inner quad “tear drop” as well as overall leg development.

Crossfit is a dangerous programme which leads to countless injuries. Its emphasis on speed and weight combined with complicated compound exercises is a recipe for disaster, as demonstrated by the numerous lawsuits in the US.

I would NOT recommend Crossfit to anyone …. fads don’t work longterm. What is needed is a serious analysis of one’s individual requirements (taking into consideration one’s health and fitness level), and plan a comprehensive workout bases around compound lifts.

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Running is not “better” for weight loss. Running does give one a stronger heart and lungs. However, running long distances isn’t required for that. And running doesn’t cause a person to lose weight any faster.

Walking is a natural movement, first off. You can almost walk all day without injury. Also, fat is better burned by not working hard because it burns slowly. It’s designed to burn slowly so you will starve to death during a crisis. While walking, the body will use fat to fuel you. Running on the other hand will send your body into an emergency state.

Whenever you run, the body uses energy fast than it can burn fat. Therefore, one must be sure to consume a high-carb meal shortly before running. If not, your body will not have the energy it needs and will use protein. Next to carbs, protein is the easiest substance for the body to break down. Of course, protein makes up our entire body.

All in all, running is great for building muscle and strength. However, to maintain a running program, one must eat more, which counteracts fat loss. Unless you alternate walking and running days…

Yes. Walking is a great way to lose weight. It’s about distance. No matter how you get from point A to B, whether you walk or run, you burn the same amount of energy because you’re using the same muscles. It’s just that walking will get you to point B at a slower pace. If you walk 3 miles, you’ll burn about the same amount of calories as running 3 miles. Furthermore, you still have enough in you to do activities afterward.

Wrangler’s or Levi’s? Or does it matter?

They’re bad for your back…You can do a million of them for all I care.

Also, leg extensions are the only way to focus on the knee and bring the quads down far enough into the knee to give it added protection.

As for Bench, 20% of your chest exercise is recommended to be the flat bench, meaning you can’t “do away with it”. What’s with all these dorky articles making stupid suggestions to get a viewing audience.

Forget alot of proven routines that include this.