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11-24-2009, 01:23 PM
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Question about GPP/ Metcon terms
Does anyone know where or who created the terms GPP or Metcon, or when they first started to appear? Thanks
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11-24-2009, 04:43 PM
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I could be wrong, but I believe GPP came from the Soviets.
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11-26-2009, 02:39 AM
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Never heard "metcon" before CF. "Metabolic conditioning" and similar combinations of words is probably older although that specific coinage may also have been popularized by them.
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11-26-2009, 11:22 AM
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Yeah, I'm having problems with finding the terms in any legitimate journals, IAAF pubs, any kind of Olympic team pubs, institutional pubs, eastern euro pubs... You'd think that the metabolic conditioning term would apply to any and every type of PA because all PA is metabolic, and GPP isn't really necessarily because you'd also think the more athletic(wfs) the person is the more they are physically prepared for general situations...  ................. |
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11-26-2009, 03:34 PM
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Understand that "GPP" as used by CrossFit is not the same GPP as used by most other sources. For them it generally refers to something like capacity not directly pertinent to your goals that nevertheless support them. (Butchery of grammar Russians responsible for are.)
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11-27-2009, 08:36 AM
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Metcon - see this article by Matt Bryzicki.
Remember seeing him referenced in a course book - along the lines of:
Metabolic conditioning is a term coined by Matt Bryzicki
It went on to explain 3x3 or whatever it is.
Found this amusing as I recall he wrote an article critical of CrossFit and the angry mob marched on the castle. Memory fuzzy though.
I'm not crediting him with inventing the wheel mind you. |
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11-28-2009, 08:20 PM
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Thanks for the article, but it still comes out as a fancy empty term.
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11-28-2009, 08:51 PM
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Steve Maxwell had a blogpost about metabolic conditioning. I guess Arthur Jones, of all people, helped develop metabolic conditioning. Here's the post (watch out for partially clothed people) http://maxwellsc.blogspot.com/2008/0...ining-for.html
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11-29-2009, 06:23 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Andrew Wilson
Thanks for the article, but it still comes out as a fancy empty term.
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Any emptier than "cardio"?  |
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11-29-2009, 11:57 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Garrett Smith
Any emptier than "cardio"? |
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