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- HijoDMaite0
kona
that is mainly the reason I am doing CrossFit. I need a structured workout with someone yelling at me and motivating me.
- TheBlueOne0
Cult.
If you search a bit online, back in the early days there was a bit of rivalry between Crossfit and Gym Jones. GJ being the outfit founded by former alpine soloist Mark Twight, and they train military, climbers, athletes, etc.
One of the Crossfit founders went to one of Twights seminars. One of the exercises was box jumps. Twight told the guy "Jump up onto the box, step off. We'll see how may everyone performs in one minute."
So Crossfit douche decides he'll jump up and then jump off. He does this, Twight says nothing.
Everyone finishes, Crossfit douche says "Well, I did more than everyone else."
"Yeah, but you jumped off. The instructions were to step off after jumping up."
"But I did more, and faster."
"But you're form sucked."
"WHo cares about form, I did more."
"Well, if you're hanging off the side of a mountain, you better make sure you're paying attention to form or you fall and die."
"Yeah, but I did more."
And that is the essence of Crossfit, and why it fails, create injury and is a fucking cult.
- my first class was about thirty minutes on form for squat. i don't think you can successfullyHijoDMaite
- do the exercises without good form.HijoDMaite
- non0
Did it for a while.
Its extremely difficult, but fun, when you have the right trainers.
- kirshar120
@Hijo
That's the funny thing about Crossfit, these days they do teach you really good form on the lifts, yet a lot of the workouts are based around faster times/most reps, which usually leads to a breakdown of form while performing the workouts. That's where the danger lies.@TBO
+1 on throwing out a Gym Jones related anecdote- couple that with Crossfit fostering a highly competitive environment and it becomes a dangerous mix....kirshar12
- hereswhatidid0
So have any of the people bagging on crossfit actually attended a workout? Just curious since the anecdotes you guys are using are completely the opposite of my experience so far and none appear to be any first hand accounts, just the "I knew a guy that did it once" type stuff.
- Yes. I posted above how many friends I have who have hurt themselves. The torn bicep was by far the worst (to look at).kona
- Many a pulled/torn/tweaked shoulders on the rings.kona
- But you haven't actually gone to a crossfit workout yourself?hereswhatidid
- Or verified the guys that were injured aren't just dumbasses that would hurt themselves no matter what they do?hereswhatidid
- Yes, I've gone through 3 classes. All persons who were injured had been training previously for years. All hurt doing crossfit.kona
- during crossfit. It's easy to push yourself way beyond your limits or get hurt while fatigued, using bad form...kona
- during crossfit. especially if you have a shitty instructor.kona
- rosko_picachu0
The main reason folk are losing weight is this paleo diet, they don't eat enough and go doing Olympic lifting that's the danger head on right there.
- IRNlun60
@TheBlueOne
If you search a bit deeper you would find that Mark Twight was a Crossfit affiliate for a couple of years before he went off on his own to start Gym Jones so that story sounds like bullshit.
http://www.outsideonline.com/fit…
I'm not here trying to defend Crossfit and say it's the greatest shit in the world. Who gives a fuck. For me there is no other gym in my area that teaches powerlifting, olympic lifting, kettle bell workouts, gymnastics, rowing, etc... and in each of those disciplines you run the risk of getting injured whether you do it in a Crossfit gym or not.
The one thing I miss is some type of martial arts training. Be it boxing, muay thai or BJJ, which I've done in the past but with a missing ACL I can't do many pivot type training without blowing out my knee. Crossfit lets me train in many different disciplines which is more controlled so it works for me.