Crossfit FAQ

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"They emphasize as some of their main tenets full body coordination but do not test it in their weight lifting total?"

The dead lift is a full body movement. It is expected to be easily the largest single component of anyone's total.

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Okay. Good so they got one right. Back to the military press. Why would you eschew one of your tenets when doing a benchmark that should be representative of your training?

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You've just found another way to repeat the same falsity.

The benchmark does test a full body movement, so it does not, in fact, eschew the main tenet that full body movements are central to functional fitness.

Further, said full body movement is the largest single component of said benchmark.

That the benchmark has other components that are lower and upper body centric does in no way invalidate the previous two sentences.

I'm keeping it simple here. There are more things to say, but it seems kind of pointless. As for your general rant: Well, okay?

Rippetoe provides some of his rationale for why he developed the metric the way he did:

http://www.crossfit.com/journal/libr...06_CFTotal.pdf