View Single Post
Old 09-30-2005, 06:13 PM   #90
Charles Hill
Dojo: Numazu Aikikai/Aikikai Honbu Dojo
Location: Three Lakes WI/ Mishima Japan
Join Date: May 2003
Posts: 837
Offline
Re: yet another annoying cross training q

Well, again we are having a problem with the definition of crosstraining. Cross doesn`t mean concurrently, it means something like against or a bridge btwn two differing things. The term came into vogue in the fitness world, to do different types of exercise to be more well rounded, to do something different because what one is doing now is not sufficient. There is nothing about intending anything in the term or my usage. If you are compartmentalizing what you are doing, you are not crosstraining, you are training concurrently.

This all may seem trivial but I think the overall topic is quite important. On this forum, many diagreements seem to come from the problem that different people define terms differently. I think that if we really made an effort to understand what another is saying, we would have much more productive discussions.

Charles
  Reply With Quote