Anaerobic Training for CrossFit: How To Nut Up and Ride The Pain Train – 207
What’s up guys!
On this week’s episode we talk about training the anaerobic system.
You may be thinking, why do we need to know about the anaerobic system.
The anaerobic system is a very potent training style that can be used to peak performance and help you break through some mental barriers. When done right, it can be extremely painful (in a good way!).
This system can also be over trained. It’s very taxing on the CNS which means you should not use it for too long, meaning you can’t train this way year around and sustain gains in strength and the aerobic system at the same time.
For this reason, you need to be aware of how much is enough and how much is too much.
We discuss how you can use it to learn another gear. Often times in fitness we think about pacing a certain way so that we can optimize our score on the said workout.
The problem with this is that we never push our limits to see how fast we can go and then break through those mental barriers.
I mentioned it being painful earlier and what I mean by that is dealing with extreme muscle and lung burn. If you’re not sure what I’m talking about, or not sure how “painful” a minute of work can be. Hop on an assault bike and do 60 sec MAX EFFORT sprint for max calories.
(If you don’t have an assault bike you can use a rower or do a 100m sled push with bodyweight on the sled for time).
It’s a whole different kind of pain and it will help you push through mental barriers.
Enjoy!
Coach McElroy
For more:
- Check out where we explain the anaerobic test and see Kurt and CTP try it out and try to beat their scores!
- Improve your anaerobic capacity so you can endure more pain, go harder and be better at shorter, intense workouts with our Anaerobic Assault program in Overtime.
7 Responses to “Anaerobic Training for CrossFit: How To Nut Up and Ride The Pain Train – 207”
Hey guys, (esp. CTP).
I’m enjoying how the podcast has developed over the years, and where things are headed.
Since I’ve been in Europe, I cannot watch some of the podcasts–such as episode 207…
I click on the video and get the following message: Unfortunately, this video is not available in your country [I’m in Germany] because it could contain music from UMG, for which we could no agree on conditions of use with GEMA.
Some quick research shows why GEMA blocks some videos:
https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/youtube/jsze0NxfbnY
(search string: “GEMA blocking videos in Germany”)
Thanks in advance for taking care of that.
Cheers, y’all !
Yeah. i also get the same message on several videos of yours that because it could contain music from UMG, for which we could no agree on conditions of use with GEMA, it won’t play. I am a huge fan of your series. So please do something with this matter.. Thank you for your persistancy on such wonderful contents.
Love the show. Would like to see an interview with Max Shank.
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Hey
Enjoyed very much this episode
I understood what is anaerobic and how it can interfere with the strength program, but I still have a question.
Usually the metcon are not like “Fran” (anaerobic workouts)
most often they are 10-14 min hard work with medium or heavy weights, and breaks for breathing, my question is , what kind of workouts are those? Aerobic or still anaerobic?
many thanks
It often depends on the workout and the person b/c everyone is going to get a slightly different response to similar workouts especially if the coach is just programming a generic workout for the general pop w/o energy systems in mind. CrossFit workouts can sometimes go back and forth between predominately being in certain energy systems throughout the workout.
Is the use of a HRM a good way to tackle anaerobic workouts? For example yesterday I ran 4 miles. I did 10 sets of 30 second sprints but instead of waiting a time limit before doing the next set I waited until my HR was down to 120 BPM for a minute or so before the next set.