Play Sports!

Just a quick reminder of the importance of sport as a part of fitness or athletic development.

Not only is sport's primacy illustrated in the image above, but it's also one of the central tenets of "World-Class Fitness in 100 Words":

* Eat meat and vegetables, nuts and seeds, some fruit, little starch and no sugar. Keep intake to levels that will support exercise but not body fat.

* Practice and train major lifts: Deadlift, clean, squat, presses, C&J, and snatch. Similarly, master the basics of gymnastics: pull-ups, dips, rope climb, push-ups, sit-ups, presses to handstand, pirouettes, flips, splits, and holds. Bike, run, swim, row, etc, hard and fast.

* Five or six days per week mix these elements in as many combinations and patterns as creativity will allow. Routine is the enemy. Keep workouts short and intense.

* Regularly learn and play new sports. [Emphasis mine]

(Note: The image above, as well as "World-Class Fitness in 100 Words," comes to us courtesy of CrossFit.com.)

It's interesting to note that the main benefit of sport (from a training perspective, at least; there are numerous benefits to playing sports that fall well outside the sphere of training), particularly a sport that doesn't have a set pattern or a set order of events (i.e., there's an element of unpredictability inherent in the sport itself), is the neurological adaptations that it fosters (agility, accuracy, balance, and coordination).

Today's WOD:

Run 800m
50 Good Mornings
50 Sit-Ups

Post to Comments your thoughts on sport, how it applies to training, and whether or not we should put together a CFO softball team (sorry, I'm just interjecting my own desire to play a team sport with y'all that would be fun).

Also post to Comments your time for today's WOD.