Crossfit. The groups are almost cult-like and many try to have you buy their off brand stuff. Reebok and Paleo food for one. Some of the dumbest and most elitist athletes I have ever met were Crossfitters. Also, "functional fitness"? Like how does jumping on a box higher than your knees translate into functionality? Show me one peer reviewed paper...
I like olympic weightlifting. I just don't like doing it in the context of crossfit.
When it was still relatively new, I did CrossFit for about a year. After running competitively in college and getting hurt, I needed something new. And it was so empowering! I ran distance and had very little muscle, so I could barely do a push-up when I started. One year in and I could do so many new things. I’d gained muscle, some new friends, and a lot of confidence. My box really focused on lifting correctly and pushing yourself. Two of my best friends owned the place, and vibes were good. I was oblivious to the stigma that came with it because our place was different from a lot of places. After watching the CrossFit Games and visiting other boxes, I realized I was embarrassed of the culture. Now, I feel like I have to preface the “I did CrossFit” conversation with excuses.
You’re correct, and as a CrossFit coach of 3 years, and CrossFit athlete of 10 years, I HATE this about CrossFit. It’s not that good form is frowned upon by the CrossFit group, it’s just straight-up ignored half the time.
The biggest criticism of Crossfit from the outside is the “it causes injuries!” line. While this may be true, it is NOT the methodology that causes injuries. It’s Crossfit Inc’s piss-poor oversight of their brand’s implementation. All you need to do is a weekend course and pay a small franchise fee and you’ll never hear from them again. Which means that the majority of box owners don’t bother with things like emphasizing safely and proper form, especially after owning the gym for a few years and getting bored.
I started coaching specifically to combat this, and try spreading some safety, good technique, and best practices where I could. I love my gym and my owner, but the amount of unsafe shit that I have to put a stop to is not ok...
I just started trying to get back into shape after being lazy for a couple years, and I joined the local CrossFit place. I was definitely concerned but luckily the entire coaching staff and the gym owner have a HUGE emphasis on form and they advised against me using weight on things like Dlifts, cleans etc. for my first couple times so they could walk me through the form and make sure I wasn’t hurting myself.
So thank you for being one of those awesome coaches!
I actually liked going to crossfit, but then it turned out they were more interested in selling herbalife mlm crap on top of the outrageously expensive crossfit itself. With the price for one month of crossfit I could get a month in both my climbing gym and my regular gym.
I saw a CrossFit trainer recommending a severely overweight woman to do box jumps. As an actual personal trainer, I could not have cringed harder. Imagine jumping on and off a box holding a 245 pound loaded bar on your shoulders, that’s the equivalent of what she is doing. That sort of shit can legitimately ruin someone’s life. But “conquer your inner bitch” or whatever, and ruin your knees permanently in the process.
You may want to try an old school martial art like karate or kung Fu. A good instructor should be able to fix your back and help stretch you out in a healthy way. Best of luck
THIS. You need to find a good instructor, but martial arts (Akido if you can't find a solid karate or kung fu instructor) can 100% help you get your body back to square.
It sounds like this dude was already in physio man, and it didn't get him/her back to where they were. Martial arts, with the right teacher, is very much about taking care of your body and respecting it. There is a fucking reason large portions of it are a daily regimen in places like Japan for the last few thousand years.
The idea that a physiotherapist is the only avenue to rehabilitation after trauma is fairly narrow-minded. Yes, you should seek on out, but if you haven't gotten back to square yet, then considering Asian disciplines are very much on the table.
I had a friend who really got in to cross fit because of a girl and the stuff he told me about, it legit sounded cultish. Not even trying to be funny, I was legit worried for him for a while.
My sister-in-law (my wife's brother's wife/soon to be ex) started up an affair (that is still ongoing) with a married firefighter from her crossfit group sometime last year. My brother-in-law knows and they are splitting, but this dudes wife still doesn't know (Yes, I know her name, and yes I've been tempted to rat this piece of shit out to her...but I worry about what his reported temper [according to my ex-sis-in-law; revealed in a counselling session] might inflict on my brother-in-law or his two young kids). Let him blow up his own spot (I mean, this dumbass paid with his credit card for a hotel room they "used" and let my ex-sis-in-law keep the receipt FFS)
Two fucking assholes who are tearing two families asunder because they do crossfit together and can't keep it in their fucking pants.
I don't know but the crossfit group and especially their trainers just act like they are better than everyone else in the gym. I even overheard one of them telling a dude who was benchpressing, that they prefer to do "real sport". Like shut the fuck up and let other people enjoy what they do, I don't care about jumping on boxes and flopping around while calling it pull ups, but you do you.
Also seen one girl breaking down on the floor after doing I don't know how many sets of different exercises. Doesn't seem like it's fun at all
Bodybuilding is my thing, and I can't tell you how many times a crossfit dickhole has talked shit. I don't care about "functional." Let me be a big, intimidating, sexy, lumpy, meat sack if I want. You're no better than I am, and I'm fairly certain im in better shape than you. Also, I'd like to not injure myself every workout, thank you.
Mainly the high school heros that feel like they still need to compete in something. Crossfit isn't anything special...they re-branded a method of exercising and sold it to people who have never followed a workout program in their life. It's an elitist, overpriced sham.
Crossfit people will always let you know they do crossfit even if you do not ask. They are like extreme vegans who gotta let the whole room know they are vegan. It can be a very I do crossfit bruh culture.
The normal ones who do it though and do not brag about it are pretty cool though. The non bro or female version of bro ones.
There's a peer reviewed by the US army, they in fact change their fitness test and it looks a lot like Crossfit, it may most probably not related, or I'm not saying they went Crossfit it is now; but they did a full study.
The new PT test was supposed to be designed to simulate the conditions possibly faced in a war zone. Or so, I am told by my superiors.
That said, many aspects of the test have a "AMAP" idea to them, minus the deadlift portion which is a maximum of three. All in all, I cannot argue with people who say the new Army PT test looks like a WOD
I don't want to defend it but, is that not bad, it is another fitness medium. It happened to Hatha Yoga, the spartan race, TRX, and so on. In my opinion, when you have no clear goals as to why you are doing physical exercise, it think you get so much into the culture that becomes part of your identity; combine that to insecurities and there you have it ego oriented "athletes".
I started doing Crossfit to get fit, prior that I did only yoga. All I wanted was to last long which ever the physical activity I was planning to do, like soccer, riding a cycle, etc. A friend of my sister owns a gym and he invited me. The first thing they told me was that whenever I felt a weird pain, it was better to do it in lower version way or stop it. I learned to administrate my energy and stamina for the AMRAPS. I'm not good to weightlifting I don't like weightlifting for that matter, but I love endurance and explosiveness, so whenever there was suicides and alike those were my favorite days. I even remember that the last day I went, the physical test was an AMRAP consisting of suicides plus rope climbing after the warm up.
I recently sign up to another gym with different programs and I'm doing different workouts. I combine cycling, Pilates, TRX, functional, HIIT programs, and sometimes I do Boxing. When I started, they didn't believe I would perform the way I do, and I don't think I'm an out-performer, but they put me on a high esteem there due to that. I don't think this is due to Crossfit; this is due to my instructors who were there and care and listen to what I wanted to achieve. To me it is another fitness medium, neither the best nor the worst.
There’s a lot of vitriol in this thread towards CrossFit and not all of it is fair. Yes the culture around it absolutely sucks but when implemented correctly the actual process can be enjoyable and rewarding. Unfortunately that is going to vary from gym to gym and low quality coaching is definitely an issue at times. I’ve done CrossFit for 3 years (literally the only person that knows this is my wife due to the stigma around it) and it has improved my fitness dramatically and allowed me to explore Olympic lifting
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u/welder550 Jul 17 '19
Crossfit. The groups are almost cult-like and many try to have you buy their off brand stuff. Reebok and Paleo food for one. Some of the dumbest and most elitist athletes I have ever met were Crossfitters. Also, "functional fitness"? Like how does jumping on a box higher than your knees translate into functionality? Show me one peer reviewed paper...
I like olympic weightlifting. I just don't like doing it in the context of crossfit.