Spartan Training...

[KimaMule]

Anybody look into this? What are your opinions? I'm just wondering what people think, to me it doesn't seem very healthy their training principles and seems dangerous over time, it looks like they pride themselves of killing their bodies, and of course egos abound, but some of the exercises are interesting. It's inspired by the 300 film and it's become like a fad now I read... :rolleyes:


http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1809262865/trailer

it's under Spartan Training...

[rutherford]

Some brief discussion this thread:

http://www.rmaxinternational.com/forum/showthread.php?t=14480

[Scott Sonnon]

Mark Twight is a serious athlete. The stuff he's done in his sport are legendary.

His conditioning methods are hard core but more balanced since he broke away from Crossfit. By "balanced" I refer to the fact that Crossfit believes in that GPP never ends. That's a flawed premise, since every exercise produces a specific adaptation. IOW: GPP does and must progress to SPP and upwards the training pyramid. Since Twight focuses on activity specific development, he's promoting a more balanced program that won't produce surprise over-compensations (which a GPP-only program will and must.)

So far at his age, he's holding out. I don't hear any injuries coming from his gym, so the jury's still out. We don't know the formula actually used in his gym, so we can't evaluate his program by our standards (and even if we could, it would still only be by our standards, not their own; with which they seem to be successful.)

[Shaf]

Think about it this way:

The actors and stuntcrew for "300" had a specific timeframe in which to transform themselves, and Twight and his crew had an unprecedented amount of control over their training and nutrition (which was either the Zone diet, or low carb, or paleo...I forget) Couple that with a strong desire to transform themselves, and you've got something very powerful.

For the short term, this obviously worked smashingly well. For the long term...? Probably not...you don't want to "fear" your workouts over long periods of time.

If you go to the GymJones website, and click on the "Schedule" link, you will find the day to day training schedules of the GymJones folks. They do some very cool and fun stuff there. But the GymJones training group consists of very serious, competitive athletes, for the most part, and what they do isn't necessarily what anyone else should do.