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Ice and mixed climbing guru, and all around badass, Will Gadd has been toying with Crossfit as a general training tool for the last year, mostly as a tool to prepare for his recent Endless Ascent at the Ouray Ice Festival (187 pitches of WI4+ in 24 hours, say whaaaaa). If you’re a nerd with too much free time like myself interested in analyzing training modalities etc. then you should check out his recent posts about Crossfit and his experience at a Crossfit Level I Cert.
Since I’ve been playing with the Crossfit game for a few years as a training tool I shot Will a reply email with some of my own thoughts, and we had a nice little back and forth about the whole deal. For posterity’s sake, I figured I would post the relevant portions here.
