Brett Webster Member



Profile: Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Richardson TX Posts: 5

Using Starting Strength while competing in a sport. Hello all. I am fairly new to CF and need the communities advice. The reason I got into Crossfit was because I play Ultimate and wanted to gain fitness to help out with my game. From an athletic point of view, Ultimate requires similar fitness as Soccer (because you run a lot) and basketball (because you need agility and crazy jumping skills). For those that don't know, ultimate basically involves throwing a frisbee to your teammates until you eventually catch the disc in the endzone when you score.



I have been playing Ultimate for about 2 years now. Over the summer, I was playing Ultimate about 5 times a week, I played for the club team in the Dallas area, and I gradually worked CF into my program after hearing about it. At the present point in time, Ultimate is about to slow way down after a big tournament next weekend, so it looks like a good opportunity for me to work on my fitness. After next weekend, I will have to go to two 3 hour practices a week plus the occasional weekend long tournament, because I am one of the captains for the club team at UTD where I go to school. I was thinking the SS program would be really good for me right now, but I have a couple of questions.



To me, it seems okay to do both ultimate and SS. I guess what is boils down to is this. Will I still see the significant strength gains that Rip describes even though I am playing ultimate 6 hours a week? I will make sure to get my gallon of milk a day and 5000 calories and all that good stuff, but I want to make sure that I will still see strength gains. The reason I ask is because Rip makes a big deal about doing his program and not doing anything else, which is cool, but there is absolutely no way I can stop playing Ultimate. Also, after I gain a decent level of strength (say 700-800 on the CFT), and then gain back my conditioning, will I have significantly more (noticable) jumping abilties, sprinting speed, agility and overall awesomeness on the field than I do now? Right now, my current stats are...



M/145#/5'11"/19

-Squat 165#

-DL 215#

-Bench 135#

-Fran(65# Thruster) 5:14

-Cindy: 15 Rounds as Rx



I guess I am just asking this so that I can get reassurance that I won't be overtaxing my body and recovering enough for strength sessions, and so that I can get reasurance that strength training is a good idea for my purposes. Thanks for the responses.