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Crossfit has been pushed on my unit (1st Recon Battalion) very heavily in the past 2 years.
I think it is garbage.
PFT scores have dropped significantly, primarily on the run.
Also ruck running ability has dropped among the cross fit crowd, again due to the lack of getting out and doing long duration cardio.
In 06 before it really took hold there were probably 6-7 guys per 20 man platoon who ran under 18 minutes on the 3 mile, everyone was under 21:00 unless they had some kind of injury. I'd say more than 80% finished in under 20:00
Last time we ran a PFT only 2 people in the entire company ran under an 18 and scored a 300, myself (16:40) and a high 17 minute. Several people were in the 22-23 region. That would have been completely unacceptable in 2006...
The crossfit turds really think their method will help people in my occupations job performance. The numbers and events i see first had seem to prove the opposite.
If you do crossfit workouts as a side workout, just in addition to your normal training i think it can be good for some core and general strength maintanance.
20 minutes a day isnt going to help you carry a ruck for 3 hours over mountains. Nor will it help you in a 2-5 or 10 hour event.
As a former 0321/8541, hearing that only 2 guys in the whole company scored a 300 is a punch in my gut. If you cant go out and knock out a 300 on any given day...........then something is incredibly wrong. a 300PFT should be the "stepping off point", IMHO.
and hour of unit PT every morning at 0700, followed by a 5 mile run, chow, work. mile swim at 1100, chow, work, and then a 3 mile run or an hour in the gym in the evening was our garrison routine. You couldnt even get INTO sniper school if you didnt have perfect scores: PFT/pros-cons.
Well, sounds like you need to get in there and cut out the dead wood,
I am getting out in a few months, but i did what i could. I had the fittest team in my company by far. We won every ruck event last year and no one was below a 285.
When i went through RTP we got fucking killed. Our head cadre was the first Marine across the line at the 2006 Armed Forces Tri Challenge at pt magu and won the overall at the 2004 superfrog(4:2x). Needless to say, we ran and swam a lot. If you couldnt post a 285 or above after the swim screening there was no way you earned a slot to leave RTP and go to BRC.
Last year we had guys show up from the new BRC running 250's or worse.
We sent some turds to SS last year too... oh and it's 0317 not 8541 now haha. That course is changed too. Dumbed down the mission planning week, no more all nighters writing patrol orders.
Even with a 90k bonus for SGT's my platoon had a 0% retention rate after last deployment.