Gym routines

[FitOrDie]

I'm a little lost... All of that has nothing to do with my (borrowed) definition of fitness, or the optimizing thereof. Yes, we all have genetic limits, some more than others, but it does not mean we should not strive for more.

As far as measurability is concerned, measuring fitness as already defined is possible. At the very least it is highly estimatable.

What you need to do is take several challenges (crossfit has benchmark workouts for just the occasion) and measure your performance. Take the crossfit total or powerlifting total (deadlift, squat, and bench/shoulder press respectively), and add them up for your strength. Or take your max clean and jerk for your power. Those two give you a good idea of how how good you are in the 10sec or less, big strength categories.

Then take a workout like Fran or Grace, and measure your time there. Each should be, in the end, a 4-10 min effort. Or measure your performance on 10 sets of sprints with adequate rest.

Then take a halfour effort, whatever it is, measure your output, same thing. Then take a 90min effort like cycling or jogging or whatever, see how well you do.

You can measure all these time-ranges of efforts with many modalities, you can average them, and you can plot them on a graph if you really like. Me, I like to just keep a record of everything and check for improvement across the board.

This is quantifiable!

As for the rest... what about my base needs to be broadened?