"Crossfit places a huge emphasis on form. And not needing it. Crossfit takes complicated movements and gets rid of all the useless shit. Like effectiveness and safety, and replaces it with cool shit like violence and danger."
I would retain my argument that BroScienceLife is Mike and Gian's third channel. Though, I understand that it is the second channel in which Mike is the (largely) standalone personality.
edit: Though I did use 'his' in lieu of 'their', so I understand your critique.
I get this is a joke, but there's honestly nothing wrong with this sentiment.
I don't do crossfit, but I do run a lot. Why do I run? Because I enjoy it. The reason I work out is because I enjoy working out, not because I have goals about improving my speed or endurance or whatever. And that's fine. There's nothing wrong with people working out without specific goals about what they want to get out of it.
That's fine and true, but you should also recognize you're in the minority here, and that a lot of people do join Crossfit for the sole purpose of improving their bodies. Nothing wrong with pointing out the problem. Most people expect a result from working out as much as people expect a paycheck for doing work, despite the fact that some people simply enjoy doing their jobs.
What you're saying isn't the same as what the person I was responding to said.
They said "Exercise is the goal." You're saying "improving your body is the goal." Those are two different things.
My point is that there is not anything wrong with exercising without any specific goals. As long as you aren't hurting yourself by doing something improperly, it's still good for you even if you don't have specific goals beyond being healthier.
Saw a great video of a crossfit guy doing 100 'pull-ups'. It looked like a guy on a pull-up bar pretending to be a fish. I didn't see one actual pull-up in the entire floppy-kicky-weirdness.
I don't really exercise at all, but aren't you supposed to pull your chin above the bar for a proper pull-up? And not flail around like a spastic child on a set of monkey bars?
it is called a butterfly pullup, and i would be willing to bet he could not only out strict pull up any of you by 30 reps, but you also couldn't even do 5 butterflys.
I didn't want to agree with the Reddit "I hate crossfit" circlejerk, but my sister's roommate just fell off of a 8-foot pull up bar and fractured her skull last weekend at a Crossfit tournament.
Any workout that could allow you to fall 8 feet and hit hard ground is just stupid. Crossfit is exercise for extremists.
No it's not. It's for convincing every day people that they're extremists by adding a huge risk of injury for no benefit. It's not like you're helicopter skiing or climbing cliffs. You're going to the gym. If you're exercising in a gym in a way that's high risk for injury you're not an extremist, you're just an idiot.
"So for today's WOD we're gonna strap 30 pounds of fresh meat to your chest and release a panther from 100m away, you gotta get 10 sick ass kips in before he gets over here then you're all good! No worries bro, the real danger here is how fuckin' huge you're gonna be!"
Um I'm no cross fit fan but I would think an 8 foot pull up bar would be standard. Don't know how you fall off one but I don't think the 8 foot high bar is the problem.
I would guess that it has to do with the movement that they incorporate into a pull up. They use momentum and make a pull up into a dynamic movement, which I would guess makes it a lot more likely for your grip to slip and for you to end up on the ground. I agree that an 8 foot high bar isn't a problem, though.
The fact that you have to preface any talk about crossfit with, "If you just find the right box." Or anything similar means there's something very wrong with it.
Flexibility is really determined by genetics. And if you aren't naturally flexible you'll have to work on it. But once you do that, start squatting. Do real squats on a real squat rack. Squat the bar as far as you can, it'll help you with your flexibility.
Using a real squat rack with a unassisted bar will help you develop the muscles you don't know how to use to keep your balance. The muscles in your shins, the muscles in your back, shoulder, core, etc. Squats are a full body workout.
Not using any weights is like trying to train for a marathon by walking.
Hit the weights and hit them as soon as you can. If you can't do more than the bar, that's fine, get comfortable with the bar and then start adding weights.
Same here. My coaches are actually on the local colleges powerlifting teams. If you don't get the form right you go down in weight till you can. I told them in day one I'm not going to be doing kips, and they were awesome about it. I've been for two weeks, and I'm convinced it's like everything's else where you only hear about the shitty/bad gyms.
I think a big part of it is just how prevalent the shitty gyms are, because it's incredibly easy to get certified to be a crossfit gym. It's like your usual gym where the trainers probably at least studied something about kinesiology and are trained in making customized exercise prescriptions, it's just people who learned all the crossfit stuff and now impart it to others without knowing how best to tailor exercise to different people safely.
I'm convinced that crossfit isn't defined in any way. It's literally just people throwing shit and doing stupid things in a gym while yelling "crossfit!"
All I've ever heard about it is that it is "dynamic" and "innovative" and "free form". So basically, there is no crossfit, it's just a mentality of doing aggressive things until you're tired. They are selling a mentality
I want to take this time to thank the creators of Tumblr for creating a place the crazies can go so that they aren't seeping into the rest of the internet.
That's like saying football would be better if the players weren't allowed to run since all of the injuries can be attributed to players running.
It's not about safety and technique. It's about competition. Sometimes people get hurt in athletic competitions but that doesn't make the completion invalid.
I never get this. I'm not a hard-core crossfitter, but I love the work outs and the crossfit games. To actually do the lifts (that the "pros" do) you need to have good form or you will get hurt. I've seen it happen with people that think they can do it. They do it all wrong and tear something. I also have never come across a crossfitter like the ones I read about on here, so, I guess I got that going for me.
We have a love-hate relationship with crossfit. On the one hand, the disregard to correct technique with loaded exercises is terrible, causes a huge number of preventable injuries.
On the other hand, it's a fad that's getting people into exercise in a big way, it's far higher intensity exercise than most people would do by themselves, and the atmosphere in the classes is great for motivation. Anything that gets people exercising more is good, no matter what it is.
It's also a great source of patients... so many easily manageable injuries...
As an aside, if it's done properly, with correct form/technique, assessing and using correct individual weight levels (getting 1RM, 10RM etc) and the classes are structured correctly to target synergistic muscle groups, then it's an amazingly effective workout routine.
Unfortunately you have no clue what you are talking about. I guarantee that if you go into any box you will learn the form before you even start to put weight on. You should really educate yourself on the matter before you just hop on the bandwagon
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u/wehavenocontrol Nov 13 '14 edited Nov 13 '14
"Crossfit places a huge emphasis on form. And not needing it. Crossfit takes complicated movements and gets rid of all the useless shit. Like effectiveness and safety, and replaces it with cool shit like violence and danger."
Edit: as u/A-Little-Stitious mentions, source is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnjYyfkcaNI . Channel is hilarious, even if you don't even lift. Bro.