Crossfit ryan lochte biography
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What is CrossFit and is it worth the money?
IF YOU’RE LIKE me, and many more I suspect, who’ve flirted with the idea of taking up CrossFit only to check the price of it for a month and rubbish the idea in a heartbeat, it might be worth considering that this latest fitness craze is one of the quickest ways to actually get in shape.
Granted, a six-month membership package with unlimited classes will probably cost you over €500 (and you can double that fee if it’s 12 months you’re after) but if you were in the condition you wanted to be afterwards, would you pay it?
Ian O’Leary of CrossFit, Cork makes the argument that though it is expensive, it’s unlike any other form of training.
“The easiest way to describe it is mixed-modality training,” explains O’Leary. “Rather than focussing on any one element, like just running, or just lifting weights, or just lifting your body weight, we combine all these elements in a training session to give people a general, broader, all-round fitness workout.
“What tends to happen is not only does people’s strength improve but their speed, their balance, co-ordination, flexibility as well. We test all these points, we don’t sacrifice any element of training. We train them all.”
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Olympics: Dispelling doubts about elite feats
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Ryan Lochte's Success Secrets
Some guys visit Florida to swim with dolphins. I’ve come to swim with Ryan Lochte. If you haven’t heard much about this man-porpoise hybrid, you will soon. Lochte was named FINA Swimmer of the Year after winning five gold medals at the 2011 World Championships. It was there that he finally and decisively emerged from the wake of his friend and rival Michael Phelps. Not only did Lochte, 27, vanquish the octo-golden boy in their head-to-head races, but Lochte’s winning time of 1:54.00 in the 200-meter individual medley was the first world record set since performance-enhancing suits were banned in 2009. “The World Championships were just an appetizer of what I’m capable of doing,” Lochte tells me. (Want to break your own fitness limits? Sign up for our free Exercise of the Week newsletter for fitness tips and new exercises from the country's top trainers.)
Some of Lochte’s physical gifts were conferred at birth: broad, flexible shoulders to power his stroke, hyperextending knees to bolster his kick. But genetics is only a starting point. He averages 40 miles of interval training over nine swim practices a week. Often he’s rigged up to contraptions designed to make a hard sport harder. Case in point: This morning, Lochte dons a belt connected b