Whats up with all those retarded ass knee high socks and glow in the dark shoes? lol
I'm not a fan of crossfit. Yes, many people love it. I think it lacks structure. do this as many times as you can for an hour! WOO HOO!!! retarded. That's not how you get results that improve your health. The trainer I worked with back in the fall and I talked about those style of classes and how they just don't work for the program, they work for themselves, day of. a REAL program targets items in logical progressions.
See, that's the misconception your trainer has about crossfit.
Check out the outlaw site I posted above. He follows the same principles as Louie Simmons, the founder of Westside Barbell and probably the most respected person in the world for weight lifting programs.
Yes, the workout changes every day for Crossfit but it should still follow a logical progression, when done correctly.
I follow Wendler's 5/3/1 for my strength program before I do any WODs. If you just follow the program as prescribed, you'll put 50lbs on your squat and deadlift max in a year and 25lbs on your bench press and shoulder press. That's as logical progression as it gets.
The WODs should be the same way. You use building movements that eventually turn into a very complex, complete movement like a snatch. So one week you may work on medicine ball cleans, the next a sumo deadlift high pull, the next, an overhead squat. When you put all three of those movements together, it becomes a snatch. That's how you program progression in Crossfit. You also program for different energy systems - so whether the workout is going to be a 5 minute sprint type workout or a 20 minute 'chipper' or whether its going to involve heavy weights or light weights.
No workout should last more than 15 minutes on a regular basis. So the misconception of an hour is bunk. Not even the toughest workouts should take an hour - even if they're done once a month.
Again, basically your trainer was spouting off stuff he doesn't know. His bootcamp is essentially crossfit without the Olympic weightlifting. Ooops! Not saying one is better than the other, but personally, I think olympic weightlifting should be the foundation for pretty much all workout routines (there's a reason why its in the olympics, used in every high school and college gym for basically every sport, etc., etc). I've also done MMA/Muay Thai style workouts that didn't include any of the weight elements but I supplemented that on my own.
