Most Practical Versatile Body

So I was watching the Olympics, and I realized that while athletes have very different body types depending on the sport, nobody seems to have the CrossFit kind of body.

This made me wonder, how practical is that kind of body? Of course Olympians are all specialists, but what would happen for example if someone trained for a combination of athletics, swimming, endurance, and MMA, would they end up looking like CrossFitters? Or would CrossFitters get completely rekt in endurance and things like jumping?

Rugby players.

Roids

Monosyllables

Boxers.

Run+cardio+jump rope+ light weight lifting + boxing = insane athleticism. Except a few heavyweights here and there.

Judokas have a pretty nice, balanced-looking body, though not as big as crossfitters. Also, the more weight classes in a sport = the more ripped people tend to be (except in the top classes).

That too.

>trained for a combination of athletics, swimming, endurance, and MMA

So, like some kind of super triathlon?

>Starts on a boat offshore
>An intense routine on the rings followed by dropping directly into the water.
>Long distance swim to the shore in choppy waters
>Get to the beach and have to shoot fight the first other triathlon participant you see

I'd watch it.

In my opinion, obstacle course racers. Good balance of strength, skills, and endurance.

Im not totally sure I understand your question. If someone trained for multiple disciplines they would get good, but not great, at those disciplines. How they look depends on what combination of disciplines. Swimming + table tennis will look different than volleyball + weightlifting.

If you were training for a bunch of different sports/events, you likely still would not look like the top level crossfit body. Think about it like this, crossfit athletes are doing a ton of different forms of exercise/training stimulus. They are doing resistance training with bodyweight and freeweights + conditioning with circuit training, HIIT, and occasionally long distance stuff. Training constantly for exercise itself (crossfit) would likely lead to you looking better than if you trained for a variety of sports/events. Sports/events require athleticism and skills specific to the events. Crossfit is just training stimulus over and over in a variety of ways. Again, it depends on what events/sports the first example is training for, but I would wager generally they would be more athletic but also leaner/lighter and not as strong, and the ideal crossfitter would be a bit heavier, stronger, and not necessarily as coordinated or athletic.

Crossfitters like that are on roids fuckhead. Hardly any cross fitters look like that in a typical cross fit gym. That's just how they advertise their bullshit.

An Olympic icosathlon, a combination of 20 events:

an athletic decathlon:
- 100m sprint
- 400m run
- 1500m run
- 110m hurdles
- long jump
- high jump
- pole vault
- javelin throw
- discus throw
- shot put

swimming:
- 50 m freestyle
- 200m freestyle
- 800m freestyle

a triple Olympic triathlon:
- 4km swim
- 120km bicycle
- 30km run

combat:
- archery
- épée fencing
- 3-gun shooting
- pankration


Rate.

B-but what about the CrossFit Games, surely they have doping tests right?

I meant a balanced versatile combination of disciplines, I said athletic+swimming+endurance+MMA in my example. Or something like this even: The point is are there any drawbacks to that kind of body, would a CrossFitter have more trouble with endurance or athletics for example simply because of his body type, independently from skill.

I hate crossfit and crossfiters.

That being said, it's a damn versatile body. The drug testing for the comps is basically a joke though, so do not admire those athletes in any realistic sense.

Instead, attend a local trial and look at the midline competitors. Those who do well, but don't actually win.

This is a good versatile body.

Otherwise, a soldiers body. It can fight, run, lift, do body weight shit, is ideally pretty lean and efficient, swim, etc. Also, the amount of muscle is (ideally) at a sensible baseline. Big muscles are energy expensive and require a shit ton of food to maintain. That to me is not versatile

>practical
what do you mean by practical?
>what would happen for example if someone trained for a combination of athletics, swimming, endurance, and MMA, would they end up looking like CrossFitters?
you need some weightlifting for that though you don't build tons of muscles from swimming
>Or would CrossFitters get completely rekt in endurance and things like jumping?
well compared to an olympian they would probably anyone that is competitive on a national level

Swimmers do weightlifting to train for swimming.

>well compared to an olympian they would probably anyone that is competitive on a national level
Just talking about the body type, not skill or even blood circulation or whatever.

>Training for versatility
>Not training for crit and mastery

Enjoy your shitty damage reduction, pleb

>but what would happen for example if someone trained for a combination of athletics, swimming, endurance, and MMA, would they end up looking like CrossFitters?

Considering that's what CrossFitters do, thenyes of course they would (and do) look like that

Tia toomey was top three at the games this year and lifted for Australia.

Yeah but I mean come on weightlifting isn't a real sport.

>Considering that's what CrossFitters do

90% of what crossfitters do is lift heavy things up and down.

Wut
I think you mean bodybuilding isn't a sport

In sports lifting weights is just something you do to train your strength so you can do other things that aren't lifting weights.

I'd say it's more like 60-70% at the very most
The rest being skill work in gymnastic type movements and Metabolic conditioning.

I think pavel tatsouline has the most versatile body type

I've never seen crossfitters do gymnastics, it's all basically lifting with some very light cardio.

>thread

L-sits
Strict muscle ups on rings
Iron crosses

Just to name a few movements I see lots of crossfitters do, also false grip work on the rings, along with paralette/deficit strict HSPUs and l-sit to press to handstand

Also, the founder of CrossFit is an ex gymnast
The 2014 fittest woman on earth is a former gymnast as well along with lots of other competitors

>what would happen for example if someone trained for a combination of athletics, swimming, endurance, and MMA, would they end up looking like CrossFitters?

that's pretty much exactly what crossfit is m8

crossfit games are kinda retarded though since the athletes are trashed by the end of day 1 and they just compete 3 more days completely trashed

Forearms son. Judo is all about grabbing and grappling. Grip strength gets ridiculously developed, far more than anything else

Any form of fighting IMO creates the best well rounded athletes.

When I think about it, a perfect athlete should have speed, endurance, explosiveness, agility, strength and coordination. I really can't think of too many sports where this is true. Powerlifting is basically just raw strength and some explosiveness. Oly lifting uses strength explosiveness and coordination. Marathon runner is speed and endurance. Rugby and a football running back seem to make the case, but they lack endurance.

So when i looked up the crossfit games, their longest run is a 7km trail run, and that's one event of maybe 40. Aside from that nothing is longer than a few hundred meters. And some people would say 7km is hardly considered an endurance run.

But when I think of different MMA, wrestling, or boxing athletes? They do it all. It's not uncommon to see boxers have a 10 mile run in the morning, then spend the afternoon doing weight training.

OLYMPIC ROWERS

It seems to me like CrossFit puts a huge emphasis on strength and very little on endurance though, I also wonder how well that kind of body would fare with anything that requires agility.

Youve never seen a typical soldiers body, have you?

There are far more fatties and skinny weak mitherfuckers than should be acceptable.

But then again, the lighter and skinnier you are, the easier it is to do pushups and run.

>Rugby players lack endurance
You never watched, let alone played, rugby, have you?

CrossFit's emphasis, generally, is power production and work capacity.

There are plenty of options to injure yourself with CrossFit while training for endurance, strength, or whatever, though.

>tfw box
>don't run

should I?
I thought boxing would be enough and I hate running, it's boring af

>rugby players lack endurance

nigga wut

there is certainly not a HUGE emphasis on strength otherwise the games would look more like worlds strongest man

it's really supposed to be all around fitness

ridiculous, you are gonna shit numbers on all the fields, its impossible to train for and even more its impossible to balance the weight of every sub event.

> gymnastics from age 5
> Play various sports throughout childhood ie football (soccer) basketball lacrosse, track
> Start oly wl at 12
> Use ring training for upper body oly for lower body
> 400m training
God tier athlete right there

That might be a bit much

Hockey players are the best olympic athletes

He means an actual soldier, not a guardsmen doing maintenance work two days a month.

By that logic track isn't a sport because running is something you do to be better at other things.

This year's games at ring hspu. It was horrific, they turned it into ring decline pushups.

Endurance is as important as your footwork or your punching speed/strength in boxing. If it ever gets down to a longer match and you can't keep up with your opponent you're going to definitely lose. Also it helps you manage your weight for different classes.

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>would a CrossFitter have more trouble with endurance or athletics for example simply because of his body type, independently from skill.
the fuck does this even mean

eh I know what it means but it's still kinda stupid

"is it easier to run a mile weighting 120 or 190" "is it easier to put the shot 20m weighing 190 or 280" fuck you think senpai

look at decathletes

fuck

if you plan on competing you need to get your roadwork in

What in the shit is an obstacle course racer?

Hadn't had problems with endurance so far
the place I train in is small and really hot, even with a dehumidifer that place gets too steamy, mirrors are always steamed but hey, it's wonders when you go outside and I've gained a lot of no water endurance as well.

I'm doing just to know how to defend myself and fight but I've had times where I thought of competing
how do you even organize running, just run until you can no longer move?
I basically have all days filled, its either powerlifting or boxing and im only free on sunday

>how do you even organize running, just run until you can no longer move?

You get up bright and early and run. If you're starting out, find a destination. 30 minutes to an hour.

schedule is incompatible
would after work out be good? Like lift, go home and have a quick small snack and then go run