Why Crossfit® Athletes Don't Plateau...

[@AndrewWortes]

Crossfit might keep my body guessing but you had my ears guessing with those mic levels...

[@tylerjaehamilton]

Boom, roasted

[@AndrewWortes]

Absolute Beast Good video bro, just a musicians two cents 💥

[@lifeofpride4462]

GOTTA SWITCH UP THE AUDIO LEVELS TO CONFUSE THE LISTENERS, RIGHT BABE?

[@tylerjaehamilton]

They won't see it coming 🤣

[@Bilmuriband]

Started CrossFit 6 months ago and I love it. My critiques are the same as yours. If they got rid of kipping pull ups, I think so many people would join. Luckily my gym rarely programs those types of pull ups and when they do, I just do as many strict as I can followed by ring rows.

[@tylerjaehamilton]

You absolute beast Johnny! Keep it up! And welcome to Crossfit

[@jnxmck]

You've gotta put a CrossFit inspired track on the next record man, Bilmuri for life

[@mikitadou]

From my observation most crossfitters get injuries that limit their performance long before their bodies can reach their natural limits.

[@TacticallyFitOfficial]

Observe better lol

[@mikitadou]

@@TacticallyFitOfficial working on it

[@dustyre1]

The 2 different levels of sound was killing me... love the vids

[@tylerjaehamilton]

Fixed on future videos Dustin! Glad you love them

[@intellectualninjamonkey2496]

yea, the content was great but the sound made it a little bit amateurish. Live and learn...

[@loganbutler2337]

Surprise surprise. Another fucking awesome video. Anticipating your page blowing up soon. Awesome editing and content. Funny. Relevant. Cheers.

[@tylerjaehamilton]

You made me smile Logan, thank you for this comment 💪

[@stefanstillwell4854]

Every adaptation to physical demands occurs faster at the start, ie we gain strength fastest when we first train with weights, our mile time decreases more in our first month of running than after the next 2 months - that the nature of training plateaus. Crossfit athletes don't focus on one attribute, therefore make linear progress for longer than a pure strength athlete, but at a lower rate-because they are not as far along with the given adaptation, and are not training purely for strength.

[@tylerjaehamilton]

This comment is exactly a summary of my entire video. Many small adaptations so the body is growing/developing but not enough for it to adapt to one specific stimulus.

[@evyozx6r]

I love everyone commenting on getting injured. I've switched to mostly CrossFit with a few days bodybuilding style training and over the last couple of months since I started CrossFit, nobody at my gym has been injured. The feeling of exhaustion after a CrossFit workout feels so much better than most of lifting sessions I have at 24hr fitness. People just love to hate.

[@tommy27usa]

My problem with CF is working out for time and/or quantity rather than quality. Very good complex and demanding excercises but why not do the correctly? No kipping, no swinging, no cheating, proper form, controlled lifts... I think it would be a lot more rewarding, maybe safer and would shut those haters up

[@lad9732]

I think distinctions have to be made between the competitive mentality and the casual crossfitter mentality. When you want to compete you want to figure out how to improve on your every weakness but when you are a casual goer that does 2-3 workouts a week, its not the same stimulus. A problem that may happen in cf is that there are people lying in between these categories who may not have the best coaching and injure themselves for pushing too hard. I think its also important to mention that many people (myself included) find themselves injured for not realizing that they aren’t as mobile/flexible as they would like. As someone w very tight hamstrings it is important for me to routinely stretch and do flexibility drills if I want to be able to perform olympic lifts and gymnastic movements effectively. Again, i think good coaching is a key element here.

[@dave14647]

That was a good video, very informative and non bias. Really learned a lot and found some appreciation to your sport. Keep it up and Be a beast

[@tylerjaehamilton]

I try to look at all perspectives! Glad you learnt something!

[@bespoke6719]

I completely agree with you. Crossfit produces the best all around athletes in sports. There are specialist's that are better at individual area's but not as a whole...

[@TheMdpalmer]

6:16 I'm not training to be a ninja, I'm training to be an athlete!? hahhahahahaah funniest shit I heard all day 😂😂😂😂

[@tylerjaehamilton]

That was inspired by one of my subscriber's comments... Glad you loved it!

[@GENODELMAROATL]

I am doing the spartan 300 work out is that good for a Beginner to cross fit ... 25 pull ups 50 push ups 50 box jumps 50 leg wipers 50 clean and press with 35 lbs 50 dead lifts with 135lbs 25 more pull ups

[@tylerjaehamilton]

That is a insane workout! Good luck

[@GENODELMAROATL]

Absolute Beast I do it in 32 min and I am not that fit some guys on ig do it in 13 min

[@toddknode752]

I was an active cf'er for 5 years, I have a home gym now, and I certainly hit plateaus. I would not plateau across the board but would be stuck at one or 2 things. I WAS on a 5 year plateau with double unders.

[@tylerjaehamilton]

Omg 😂 I have many members who struggle thoroughly with double Unders, but I'm glad you understood the point Todd 💪

[@whitehawk23]

Great thesis! Also the subjective factor. The coach isn’t always going to guide you. At a certain point you have to take responsibility for your own gains, PRs, goals etc. also xross fit is relatively modest and humble as far as the games are concerned. There is less sham-foolery as in traditional sports. The beauty lies in the fact that we can love athletes for the fact that they shown as champions based on hard work and good sportsmanship: team and individual wise. Tom Brady maybe great but he’ll forever be linked to likes of Aaron Hernandez. Keep on Crossfitting!

[@tylerjaehamilton]

This comment is inspirational 💪

[@jacobsladdertreetech2829]

Use a limiter, compresor or mix your tracks. The audio was very hard to follow. But definitely liked the topic.

[@blackberry2009msd]

Great video, I agreed with everything up to the end where you said that crossfitters are good at everything but great at nothing. We don’t say that about MMA fighters because we respect what they do as a sport, so they’re good at boxing, good at jujitsu but great at MMA the same can be said about CrossFitters and their sport. I hate golf to me it’s professional walking, but I respect the sport. I think once that happens having these types of videos won’t be necessary but it was a great video though.

[@tylerjaehamilton]

CrossFitters are generalists, just like MMA fighters, if they are too specialised then they will have a massive weakness. Professional walking is a fucking knee slapper 🤣🤣

[@jeremyowens6663]

Why is doing 300 lb deadlifts for multiple reps not a great way to develop strength safely? I feel like im missing something. Is that what you are saying about relative, 300 lb deadlifts in a workout might be fine for some but a bad idea for others? I liked the video.

[@tylerjaehamilton]

In a workout sense where the goal is 'Intensity' Technique/Form can be sacrificed for speed. 300lbs for the majority of people (Who's deadlift is under 200kg/420lbs) Are likely to start overcompensating somewhere else in their body to make up for the lack of strength. TLDR: Injuries slow strength down, also deadlifts are not suppose to be bounced, you are losing on the eccentric phase of the lift, which is where muscle is build.

[@jeremyowens6663]

@@tylerjaehamilton I think I see what you mean. Are you saying that heavier deadlifts in a workout that includes multiple movements for time is a bad idea? Thanks for the reply

[@Solabhradha]

Jack of all trades, master of... you know the rest. In other sports, people are reaching the literal absolute limits of progress in their discipline. If your sport is varied so much, you are not going to reach the limits of anything... at least not quickly. So maybe they are not plateauing because they aren’t progressing quickly in any of the disciplines?

[@tylerjaehamilton]

Absolutely correct seamas, I love using RuneScape as an example, if you level up all your skills one by one, it will never feel like you are grinding real hard at anything in particular, however if you max out a skill, it becomes really slow, giving you the feeling of plateauing

[@Solabhradha]

Absolute Beast You speak a lot of sense dude!

[@tylerjaehamilton]

@@Solabhradha so my analogy was good, nice. 💪

[@alwynmaguire8037]

Your shoulders are going to be shot in 10 years time. How do I know? Because I used to train this way and now fastly approaching 50 wish I didn't do it with such high intensity. Its like everything in life awe have a certain amount of heart beats, certain amount of joint movements and now im excercising to stretch the aryhritis out of my joints on a daily basis.

[@PrebenHPedersen]

You have the very best way to showcase your lovely sport keep the good arguments coming 👍

[@tylerjaehamilton]

Thanks!

[@tonyc.5166]

Brilliant Analysis and Reasoning Bud! Informative and useful. GPP is for most people! Thank you

[@tylerjaehamilton]

No worries Tony!

[@_hannbee]

Great video Man! Would (constructively suggest) trying to balance the voice over v. live audio as it was a little distracting. But keep up the good work!

[@tylerjaehamilton]

Same mic, just seems to pick up sound better on the PC. Thanks for the feedback (no pun intended)

[@_hannbee]

@@tylerjaehamilton 😂 😂 love the pun! Should be pretty easy to balance in premiere and just copy attributes across those segments!

[@tylerjaehamilton]

@@_hannbee will do Hannah, just weak at my Audio game

[@_hannbee]

"Tyler" For time: 30 reps clips audio balanced 😂

[@tylerjaehamilton]

@@_hannbee damn Hannah, Tyler is already a hero workout, and yours sounds way more interesting (Tyler being 7 Rounds, 7 Bar Muscle-ups, 21 Sumo DL high pulls @95/65)

[@Bald_Gojo123]

Yeah no, I’m not seeing it. I think cross fitters are great across the board generally, but I think saying crossfitters don’t plateau is misleading. I can go practice tennis for an hour and probably improve because I suck at tennis and never play but that doesn’t mean much. However, as somebody who is focused on running and lifting, this improvement in tennis doesn’t really help much of anything in running or lifting. So I guess I don’t agree at all that not plateauing is what crossfitters are actually doing. I think it’s better to say crossfitters are becoming better general athletes. They are definitely plateauing in multiple areas, otherwise there would be no end to how good they could get, but there is. Just because a person is doing a lot of different things doesn’t mean that they are just going to get better because of variation. Far too general of a statement for me personally

[@tylerjaehamilton]

Firstly, You are correct Austin, as I mention in my video, CrossFitters do plateau at one specific thing, however because it is so constantly varied, they will never get the 'feeling of plateau' which both mentally and physically means they will progress further. As a smart man once said. 'Better character makes better athletes' "Ben bergeron" If you are under the illusion that there's no real way you can possibly plateau at the sport of CrossFit, the ceiling is unlimited.

[@Bald_Gojo123]

I get what you’re saying about the mental aspect, but the mental aspect does not matter if you’re not improving. I will have periods where I improve a lot in my lifting but regress in my running because I spend more time in the gym, but that doesn’t mean I’m not plateauing. If I’m improving in lifting but regressing in running, does that not affect how well I can do my sport( although it is not a unified activity like CrossFit I think the model still works)? I’m not trying to hate on you or anything, I just don’t think it’s fair to use Matt Fraser, an incredibly great weightlifter who became a great crossfitter and openly talks about how he is always getting better cardiovascularly as evidence that crossfitters just progress across the board because of variability

[@ericlismumze9932]

i think at face value your notion has merit, for high level crossfitters especially. however, most likely for the average joe the opposite applies. i base that anecdotally on my local box where pretty much everyone plateaus after about 6 months as well as the practical aspects of constantly varying for normal participants where that actually prevents progress...and often scaling becomes counterproductive. one thing to note here is that plateuing doesn't mean full stop necessarily, many people at my local box will drop a few seconds on a workout, over time, but their body comp isn't changing , their fitness isn't improving, they are just more comfortable breathing heavy. so it prob isn't crossfit so much as the individual and the knowledge or coaching they have combined with motivation .

[@ianbrewer4843]

Great video

[@MrNailbrain]

My thought: Could you balance the audio a bit better?

[@Nemo-ic5tb]

The plateau where you got this word sounds beautiful. In the disease there are the words crisis, i.e. the rise of the disease, the decline of the disease and remission, weakening or decrease. Those. the process of movement of disease or recovery. Plateau geographical designation (fr. Plateau, from plat - "flat") - an elevated plain with a flat or wavy, weakly divided surface, bounded by distinct ledges from the neighboring plain spaces of the earth's surface. The plateau does not have movement because it is a plane. displacement due to the shift of tectonic plates. We are constantly on it on the plateau. It does not rise and fall. I did not understand. What does medicine and geography do. There is a name stable remission. Reconvalescence is a recovery process. normal life of the body after an illness. Stable (lat. Equilibrium) state of health. Have not tried to repeat the textbook of geography.. The geographic society can sue you for illegal use of the geographic designation of the plateau

[@CrocodileDendi]

Going to failure does not provide any more stimulus than a RPE8 movement. Numerous studies show that

[@tylerjaehamilton]

Correct, leaving 2 reps in the tank is the best for stimulus, however most average people don't know what 'failure' truly is.

[@hardushelm6268]

Fully agree, you will get alot more subscribers

[@tylerjaehamilton]

💪💪

[@ciandunphy7888]

I think the reason why he beat his time wasn’t because he is fitter. I actually think he’s less fit. The reason why he beat his time is for 2 reasons. First is he analyses his performance and come with a better time. Second of all is he was 4 days into completion so he was tired sore and wasn’t able to perform at his best

[@hardushelm6268]

Good point

[@LoganBluth]

Right, but isn't this the case for every sport...? I mean, professional athletes in EVERY sport are constantly training and improving, getting faster/stronger/better and beating their previous PRs (until age or injury catches up with them, of course).

[@tylerjaehamilton]

Most sports have what's called 'sport specific' training that focuses on the majority of their sport eg. Oly lifting clean + snatch. Their progress is much slower because they have a limited number of movements to focus on. CrossFitters have over 150+ movements, even though they are in no rights experts at anything specific, they are generalists, making them good at everything.

[@chronometa]

Oh. They do lol. Just not at the same time. Also thanks for acknowledging the goat.

[@tylerjaehamilton]

🤫🤫

[@TheFlapFlap]

Crapy audio spoiled the whole thing dude. Take care of that please

[@jonwick5824]

Matt in crossfit isn't even relatively close to comparing MJ in basketball but I get the point you're trying to make. Matt Frazier is the king of crossfit.

[@tylerjaehamilton]

I know... But how else can you describe him well? 🤣

[@jonwick5824]

@@tylerjaehamilton I know. He's 'the man on campus' for the time being just like Froning was.

[@taimen1992]

Matt Fraser probs beat his time on that workout cause he wasn’t as fatigued

[@jmortiz024]

My thoughts exactly, he came into Strength and Depth fresh :)

[@samuraitony]

OR Matt just hadnt had several days of intense competition in his workout that was faster.

[@tylerjaehamilton]

Possibly, but we will never know

[@Jrez]

Cause they injure themselves and have to stop before they hit a plateau.

[@chiefvon3068]

.....Cuts 5 years off life expectancy. Aight that's it boys, you heard it too, gotta stay fat.

[@tylerjaehamilton]

I should point out I'm talking about 'Elite athletes' the top 1% in their respective sports... But food is good though #professionaleating #10minuteamrapofbigmacs

[@theoavg]

Apparently there is no plateau because there is no proper definition for plateau in crossfit.

[@granitesevan6243]

Please can you start a campaign against dropping the bar after every fucking rep? It's supposed to be "functional", so return under control. Also, it's attention seeking and really irritating/antisocial. Pisses me off so much

[@willo283]

And in their mid 40's their shoulders, back and knees are shot and they can't do s**t

[@tylerjaehamilton]

Depends on their recovery and training volume willo, if they don't look after themselves than absolutely!

[@ruileal5601]

I'm 47. Began doing CrossFit on daily basis at 44. Never had an injury. The only time I had an injury was when I broke my wrist playing football.

[@johndoe-gh2or]

No one compares Matt to Mj or tiger lol

[@tylerjaehamilton]

I'm sorry! It's for the general public to understand 🤣

[@animelover1080]

it's just the example of the best in business

[@hotramen5952]

tren, mast, and anabol are badass drugs. they are why the athletes dont plateau. its why they can keep a stupid low bodyfat percentage year round and gain muscle mass, which should be even harder doing endurance workouts 6 hours a day, 365 days a year. bodybuilders cant do that. if pro body builders could add 10 lb of muscle mass a year without bulking thus never having to cut, they would, especially the ones that make stage at arnold and olympia. and we all KNOW that pro body builders are on drugs AND are genetic freaks. so you are telling me, that hundreds of people are so much better at building muscle than bodybuilders that they can do it not only drug free, but with hours of added endurance training? they are all on drugs.

[@MyMd1111]

Yes, that’s why it’s so hard not to overtrain. It would probably even be wise to take steroids, at lest if you go all in.

[@ChrisTMiles7104]

One performance was at the end of a weekend and one is not!!!!

[@NordKristal1kristal]

Perfect

[@tylerjaehamilton]

Thanks!

[@wakka_wakka]

Holy shit, fix your audio. All over the place. Compressor/limiter - look it up.

[@bhriscannan2080]

There is plenty of PEDs in sport guys...

[@streetstatics]

Be careful stating things as facts like going to failure has massive benefits otherwise entertaining video

[@tylerjaehamilton]

Going to failure does have massive benefits! But think of it like overclocking your computer, it increases performance at the cost of possible overheating, external problems etc. Just like a PC the more you push your body into overdrive the more likely you are to injure yourself.

[@streetstatics]

you provide no proof thats all im saying. You might think crossfit is like overclocking because that sounds cool in your head but i prefer to believe in science.

[@doulos5322]

Cause they get injured and are always in a state of recovery

[@tylerjaehamilton]

Roasted

[@papabilby8855]

Steroids... steroids is why they don’t plateau.

[@Jessersadler]

Never plateau? I've never seen a 60 year old 300lb 5%bf. Everyone plateaus. That's just science.

[@tylerjaehamilton]

That, is a terrible example of someone plateauing, because Sylvester Stalone?

[@Jessersadler]

Had to be extreme to be effective. Also, stallone doesnt do crossfit, and is on gear. . . And isnt 300lbs shredded. Used the 300lbs shredded mark, because your elite BBs are that, JUICED TO THE GILLS, and they still Plateau. (Although at extremes). Called a FFMI.

[@Jessersadler]

And . . . Did you honestly like your own reply?

[@tylerjaehamilton]

@@Jessersadler I've also never seen a 'Healthy' 60 Year old that weights 300lbs, but also doesn't mean they don't plateau.

[@Jessersadler]

@@tylerjaehamilton that's the point. . . Rich Fronning is no longer #1, I'm guessing he plateaued, and age caught up with him. Also like to point out that these elite "crossfit-ers" train a lot more than Crossfit to be competitive at that level. I'll give credit to crossfit, it motivates people to work out, and provides a stellar support system. . . But a lot of people would call that a cult.

[@davidward5225]

Bullshite, all athletes plateau.

[@TheLuckyCanuck947]

CROSSFIT IS A JOKE

[@socratespublius6047]

It's called steroids.

[@Nemo-ic5tb]

The plateau where you got this word sounds beautiful. In the disease there are the words crisis, i.e. the rise of the disease, the decline of the disease and remission, weakening or decrease. Those. the process of movement of disease or recovery. Plateau geographical designation (fr. Plateau, from plat - "flat") - an elevated plain with a flat or wavy, weakly divided surface, bounded by distinct ledges from the neighboring plain spaces of the earth's surface. The plateau does not have movement because it is a plane. displacement due to the shift of tectonic plates. We are constantly on it on the plateau. It does not rise and fall. I did not understand. What does medicine and geography do. There is a name stable remission. Reconvalescence is a recovery process. normal life of the body after an illness. Stable (lat. Equilibrium) state of health. Have not tried to repeat the textbook of geography.. The geographic society can sue you for illegal use of the geographic designation of the plateau