Who would actually do this?
>inb4 professionals
>inb4 richfags
>>36520695
my ex started it before we split. He fell for the memememes. I know he sucks at sticking to routine so he's probably given up by now anyways.
My job means I have to teach "bootcamps", so I go to other workout classes including crossfit for ideas from time to time.
>>36520695
Someone with a good bit of disposable income all the ones local to me are $150+ a month and one has an oly class that is $250.
>>36520695
Posting mandatory crossfit/functional strength webm.
>>36521176
With webm this time.
This can't be real. Like, people don't actually buy this. Right?
Had a coworker that did it and described a workout.
It was a clean, but you had to jump while doing it and land with the bar slightly hitting your throat.
Not making this up or exaggerating.
You would jump-clean and end with a throat touch.
Like wtf
>>36520695
I've done it in the past.
Cons:
>anyone can be a level 1 coach
>coaching quality is inconsistent
>Olympic level lifts are only given a shade of focus on form
>potential for injury
>gyms/boxes can be very different in training quality
>can be expensive
Pros:
>I like the pace
>community aspect
>it can be fun
>semi competitive environment which for me, pushes me harder
>people cheering others on to finish
Some coaches push pace not form, even if you're new. But on the whole I liked it. You get out of it what you put into it. Most of the people I met weren't crosstards.
>>36522778
That's batshit
>>36520695
The idea behind it is solid, and I can see why it appeals. Get fit and strong, all round fitness, group atmosphere etc. Problem is the actual manifestation is shit, but most people don't know any better and crossfit is HARD. Most people have never trained hard in their life, they go there and notice they get fitter and lose weight, it's not because crossfit is good, it's just they've never actually pushed themselves before and the group atmosphere and all the memes surrounding it motivates them. So they get results, too a point. And then think crossfit is the best thing ever, and that they're elite athletes and shit - when they are actually weak as fuck and just have decent cardio that could have easily been achieved on their own.
>>36520695
People who are just getting into fitness.
Good for them I guess. But the people who take this "movement" seriously are ridiculous.
Kenny Powers got it right about people trying to be the best at exercise.
>>36522847
I'm a weightlifter and have checked on some boxes for deload. There's this box near my house where the coach said "rest if you feel like your form is decaying". AND they have beer. It's like the perfect gym.
looks like it might be fun. Seems to be heavily reliant on finding a good coach/gym.
i think more people need to realise that it's not a complete training system. Still have to do regular workouts if you want to git gud. Also issues with imbalances seem to pop up if people only do cf. all that lifting on the Sagittal plane and not a single bench,press in sight to help balance that.
Had a look so at some of the training regimes of the top athletes. A helluva lot less cf, and more normal ish training. Like strongman, I gather.
>>36523393
Kind of like Strongman, but for slightly different reasons (I'm lucky enough to train at a gym that specialises in both, so I get to see how a few national-level competitors do things in this shitty country).
Strongman tends to avoid overdoing the events because they'll absolutely murder your body given the chance. Crossfit tends to avoid overdoing the events basically because of how erratic their comps are even compared to Strongman (and as far as HQ is concerned, every workout is a competition).
people who do crossfit are the same kind of people that sign up for planet fitness.
>>36523431
Lucky dude. At my gym there's just some fat sack of shit lifting next to the lawn clippings.
But yeah, I've always found it interesting comparing how the elite cross fitters train compared to the regular joe. I understand that practise is huge in a sport so varied, but damn.
I guess it's like most sports. Practise needs decrease as skills go up and faster improvements are found in other areas (strength, for example). Something I noticed in some of my friends who got pretty good at afl.
>>36523491
Different goals, really. Crossfit is kind of weird in that, while competition was always a goal with things, the way the Crossfit games worked out was totally not the intention. The way the average joe trains is actually closer to the Crossfit HQ ideology as it started.
And yeah, the demands of skill development vs strength/conditioning/mobility/etc are a big part of why training for Crossfit competition tends to be so weird compared to everything else - you need the skill work to hold your own, but there's so much of it that the required volume tends to preclude also using it for developing the other qualities like you can in the other barbells sports.
>>36521189
Carrying a heavy thing on your back and quadrupedal running can both be useful. Having the weights dangling like that and the form of that running are both stupid as fuck though.
>>36520695
>white people
>>36520695
Youd be surprised what kind of shit richfags will pay for when the marketing is good
>>36523342
That sounds like they know what they are doing. I like it already.
>>36523393
Pretty much correct with all that. Especially the first line.
>>36521095
Like he gave up on you?
>>36524644
yup. Like he gave up on me.
>>36520695
>easy to get into if you suck at everything else
>paying for friends
>roided pussy
>noob gains
>money if you're a jew box owner
>possibility of making it to espn if you "train properly"
But then again
>roiding for cross shit
I have a friend who is an ex crossfit coach. He left to be a solo personal trainer.
He tells me he has a lot of respect for crossfit, and that the biggest problems people see are because of shitty trainers and gym owners that emphasize weird games and neglecting form-- he calls 'em "chop shops".
Otherwise, he says the biggest problem he has is the metaphor. He says that crossfit is all about some made up scenario where your family is trapped under a bunch of rocks because of an avalanche, so you have to run a mile, throw off all the small rocks, then lift up the giant boulder. Some shit like that.
Of course, that translates to Cardio - Large Rep Sets - Strength Training. He says while that's a viable way to train, it disproportionately takes away from strength by tiring you out with cardio first.
So literally all he teaches is reverse crossfit. Warm up, lift heavy, do a bunch of secondary/accessory exercises (usually in supersets), and then go balls out with some conditioning AMRAPs.
>>36524644
>>36525923
yessuh thas a good burn there
>>36522847
>>36523342
>>36526082
This. Crossfit really comes down to the people you are working with and/or your Box. I've seen boxes that had really good programming and no injuries (run by a competition bodybuilder) and I've seen boxes that are full retard dudebro clusterfucks that had two people get rhabdo in a week.
>>36526082
>>36522847
>>36523342
>>36526862
This.
I tried CF last December to get a first hand look, i had a lot of prejudices against it. But I was fortunate to join a CF Box where form is most important above everything else, my coach is an ex oly lifter and puts much emphasis on form and strength training. Now I use 2 WODs per week as a conditioning tool besides regular lifting and running. Works quite good.
>>36522917
>weak as shit
>can't even power clean 225
>>36520695
Because it's fun, it's effective, it's social, it's varied
Something you autismal forever-alone squatting grunters won't ever understand.
>>36523491
>afl
Into the wheelie bin it goes.
