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Personal Experience
I have been doing crossfit for about 4 months now and my experience has been phenominal. The gym that I attend is run by a USMC Scout/ Sniper who picked up a lot of his training ingenuity while trying to stay in shape in Fallujah.
When I started out I was definitely overweight and have dropped about 25 pounds over the course of 4 months without major diet alterations AND my stength, stamina and explosiveness have gone through the roof. Since the workouts are designed to be short and intense, we do not do a lot of running >1000 meter intervals but are encouraged to run on our own time in what are called the "Endurance WODs." I am a former D1 football player so I had a decent strength background to begin with. Several years of focussing more on strength than conditioning (because it comes easier to me) left me strong but in poor condition.
The best aspect of crossfit (other than the conditioning) is that you are forced to learn exercises that are extremely difficult like overhead squats, snatches, cleans, handstand pushups etc that have great carryover to practical force application and your body's ability to do work.
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