Would An NFL Player Win The CrossFit Games?

[@ricardomarquez1011]

Dude this might become the best crossfit channel if it keeps this kind of content keep it up

[@Clinton.Williams]

Scott Panchick was a DIII RB and we know how competitive he was. EZ Muhammad was a DI Basketball player and got into crossfit because Rich Froning was the strength coach there. Endurance is key but if the Crossfit games payout was much more you would see some freak athletes come out to compete. Look at Matt Fraser... He was an Olympic junior WL

[@gregorZielhardt]

I ran a Sports Performance Center on the island of Tenerife for 7 years. In these years I have seen professional Hockey Players, Judo Athletes (BTW: I´d put my money on these freaks) or even Swimmers (yes! Swimmers!) who would have a serious shot in winning certain strength comps at the CF Games or even the overall comp. Olympic athletes are still ahead of the game by a long shot...

[@AfroNdiritu]

Great comparison by adding the distance runner 'just getting stronger'!!!

[@Zansaldo1]

People saw Saquan do one big clean and assume he’s the only athletic one in the league.

[@robertcoleungerer9299]

I would love for a part two of this where we look at the college football players who have done CrossFit. Hopper, Sager and others.

[@dvdjks]

Since CrossFit will never pay like the NFL, or any top tier pro sport, we will never know. CrossFit will never pay to attract the best of the best.

[@tnakatak]

One thing to look for are college athletes that couldn't quite make it to the pros. If they did well in CrossFit, that might indicate that elite athletes in their sport would do even better.

[@dvdjks]

@@tnakatak Yes, but college athletes that couldn’t quite make it in the pros will make more money doing almost anything other than CrossFit. Hard work pays off, but CrossFit doesn’t.

[@tnakatak]

​@@dvdjks I agree. CrossFit needs to grow so the athletes can make more

[@SalomonNavarro-y6h]

we need more crossfit youtube channels like this!

[@GingerBear88]

These videos are great, keep them coming!

[@coryt2459]

Solid video but you can’t be serious about saquon not being able to attain the endurance of these dudes. This guy totes the ball 20-30 times a game. If he trained for endurance and power, he would destroy the field.

[@GardySanchez511]

I 100% see your perspective here, but you can’t be serious in thinking that 20-30 carries a game in which each of those plays ranges 5-30 seconds compares to being able to sustain higher levels of heart rate and effort for minutes at a time. Saquon has an undeniable advantage with strength which would allow him to sacrifice some of that top end strength to build that endurance base -- no question about it. But it would take him a good 6 months to build that sort of baseline and even then it probably wouldn’t be close to enough to compete with the top guys of this sport across all these events. Check out the Gui Malheiros video that this guy posted! Might give you a different outlook

[@yetekt6953]

He carries the ball a lot but those are short not even close to the endurance cross fit athletes need.

[@TPRighteous]

These CrossFit guys are really squat cleaning but Barkley is catching it at a higher position.

[@gray45374]

Great video. Very well researched and thought through. Agree with your take on Saquan Barkley. He's a massive outlier, even for the NFL. And just from a numbers point of view, it's likely there are several NFL, MLB, MLS players who are well suited to CrossFit and could compete with the best elite Crossfitters. Not so much the NBA for obvious reasons.

[@RogueCylon]

Strength events are only a part of the games, and many of the other events would be down to practice. It’s an all rounder event. But anyone from mayor fitness sports could realign the Crossfit top 10 with practice.

[@joaquinecc]

underrated channel

[@craiglawson663]

I guess we will find out with Barksdale and Maggitt, since they are in the open.

[@Daniel-uo8um]

These videos are fire! Get this man some more subscribers!!🔥🔥

[@thomaslambo7022]

Great video

[@donjuco242]

Great content. You by far probably the best crossfit channel so much research and content. I found richey content really dull. Becuase he doesn't give something to take away in his vids

[@Moderindustrial]

Se a visto a campeones de levantamiento olímpico intertar competir en crossfit y no ser capaces ni siquiera pasar faces preliminares

[@alan181090]

Well, Cole Sager and Scott Panchik didn't win

[@brentonlumsden8523]

Why would a NFL player want to compete in CrossFit? Average NFL contract $860,000/year! Cool video nonetheless.

[@MrMichaelEsser]

Not the college dudes!

[@patrickedwards5804]

Mate, it's a thought experiment not an exercise in rational choice economics.. 😅

[@bartalgozzini7262]

Why bother? Not enough reward for amount training that is needed to win the games. Better off using some CrossFit to help you win a Super Bowl.

[@TheoMackay]

Of course not. Maybe qualify after years of grinding only CrossFit and even there.

[@zavdon242]

You think if an NFL player spends years focusing only on CF that they will only be a threat to qualify. Nah bro a professional NFL athlete already has a lot of CrossFit ability strength, speed, flexibility, capacity and the ability to suffer they've been doing that since like 8. You take them to a Froning or Frazer for a solid year of CF focused training and you have a top 10 athlete. After multiple years they would be battling for podium.

[@ajkeence81]

​@@zavdon242 I don't agree. They don't have anywhere near the capacity. They don't work on the type of capacity that many Crossfit Games workouts require. NFL players could specialize in some events but to build the ability to do well at all of them is a different animal. He mentions Gui Malheiros in the video who is ridiculously strong and didn't even qualify for the games last year.

[@patrickedwards5804]

Yes that was the WORST clean technique I have ever seen. But WHAT strength.

[@TrayCaddyyy]

Nope. John Welbourn competed in the 2009 CF games and didn’t win.

[@faaaaaaaa838]

they need to train like 15y to get they level, but you have a point

[@tubelance]

You can’t be bothered to learn how to pronounce his name? Come on ? He is a star nfl player and you don’t know his name ? How am I to take the rest of what you say with any credibility ?