I'm not against strength + endurance at all. Athletes outside the US not only lift ridiculously amounts of weight, they are also outside working their cardio capacity. It's a very American though process to think you can't be strong and have endurance as well. Some of us are better suited for one or the other but you can definitely work on both. In fact Chinese and Russian Oly lifters perform morning cardio several times a week. I've been told by my old coach that while in Russia he watched Oly lifters play soccer for 45min as a "warm up" before heading into the training gym to begin training their snatches and clean & jerks.
Froning's C&J is good.... 370lbs is a solid number but at best he'll maybe place at Nats beyond that he would fall quite short at the world level.
I also don't believe CF to be the best test of strength + endurance.... that combination has a sport already...... it's called Strongman /Strongwoman. That is the truest test of strength + endurance. You must be insanely strong plus have quite the endurance to perform the medleys they are up against.
I have strong opinions but that doesn't mean I don't respect you... it just means I don't agree with you at times.
I didn't mean to imply you didn't respect me. I know we have no problem there. I was talking about respecting CF.
It's basically a lighter weight, a little more endurance based version of strongman. Although, I felt the masters division
who were pulling 500-600 was quite impressive. I posted an article about CF from a strongman competitor's perspective.
He had lots of great things to say about it. Yes, CF athletes still have some tweaking to do for sled pulls/pushes and weighted
rope pulls but for every athlete that was using an inefficient technique, there was one using excellent technique.
We can see things differently for the time being. I hope it continues to evolve and perhaps your perspective on it may change.
We all know there's some holes in it but no doubt those holes will be filled as the competition grows.