You forgot anti-christianity
You forgot anti-christianity
Could be the injury rate:
16% of the participants had to drop from the program due to injury...in only 10 weeks.
Doing high rep olympic movements (cleans and jerks) at a fast rate of speed tiring and doing sloppy form will get you hurt.
Doing kipping pullups will jack up your shoulder joint. There is no RIGHT way to do a WRONG exercise.
But I guess 3000+ Crossfit Affiliate Gyms can't be wrong?
I mean, as long as I am sweating and I feel like I'm working out HARD and breathing HARD I'm getting in a good workout right?
I mean, as long as I'm doing a circuit training program and calling it Crossift I MUST be doing Crossfit right?
Crossfit basically patented circuit training...you can't go into a gym and do a circuit and not have some dumb schmoe ask you "so u doin crossfit?".
It is however a great marketing plan to make trainers lots of money. Costs for starting and operating a crossfit gym are many many times lower than a regular gym. The costs are higher than a typical small training studio, but in a training studio you are only training one client while in a Crossfit gym you are training Group$$$$$.
Crossfit exploded because hot chics in spandex and shirtless bro's on youtube videos look hot and sweaty doing WODs so OF COURSE everyone wants to do it...including the Police/Fire/Military types....again harder MUST equal BETTER right?....right?...uh...yeah....
Alan
Runningart2004 wrote:
Could be the injury rate:
http://journals.lww.com/nsca-jscr/pages/articleviewer.aspx?year=9000&issue=00000&article=97874&type=abstract16% of the participants had to drop from the program due to injury...in only 10 weeks.
To be fair. Take 100 non-athletic people and let them start a running program. How many of them will be injured after 10 weeks? I would argue more than 16%. So much for crossfit vs. running.
Now if you're looking at crossfit vs. a well-balanced strength training program focusing on compound lifts with proper form (read: with a good coach), I am sure you end up with less than 16% injury rate.
But most people can't motivate themselves to lift weights 3 times a week or afford a PT (who does the "motivating" for them).
why why why wrote:
Xfit_guy_the_real_one_1 wrote:There is a lot of misconception about crossfit despite my efforts on this board to clear up things.
Yes you get RIPPED/BUFF in the process but that is not the goal. The goal is to get overall stronger and healthier. Appearing RIPPED/BUFF or SHREDDED (call it what you want) is merely just a byproduct of training in "the box".
Why do you always capitalize the words ripped, shredded, and buff when you post? Every single time... I don't understand why.
Because he gets a hard on every time he thinks of men looking like that.
Yes, it is because they come on here and constantly say runners are skinny fat or girlie or Ryan Hall would run better if he did cross fit and all of this other crap. I'm not trolling Cross fit forums talking up the benefits of running while making fun of cross-fitters every other thread.
That is why we rip cross-fit apart, because of the tools who come on here. Posters here run to get FASTER and more EFFICIENT at racing, not to get RIPPED and SHREDDED.
I left the hills and went to the big city for the day about a week ago. As I was heading into a store to get some provisions, I passed a woman wearing a crossfit tank. She was ripped and had huge muscles. I laughed a little to myself thinking of the threads on here.
Sorry no pics.
saw Ryan Hall, at US Champs, looked fit as hell, also look at Ritz nowadays, totally ripped and he is a marathoner...
double talk wrote:
saw Ryan Hall, at US Champs, looked fit as hell, also look at Ritz nowadays, totally ripped and he is a marathoner...
You're kidding, right? Most high school girls have more (absolute) strength than either Ryan or Ritz. They don't look healthy - at all.
Xfit_guy_the_real_one_1 wrote:
double talk wrote:saw Ryan Hall, at US Champs, looked fit as hell, also look at Ritz nowadays, totally ripped and he is a marathoner...
You're kidding, right? Most high school girls have more (absolute) strength than either Ryan or Ritz. They don't look healthy - at all.
Check the picture in this article.
http://www.trackandfieldnews.com/archive/Interviews/Joe_Falcon.pdfIs this what you mean when you're talking about weak and scrawny?
I think the main issue is the general population of this board is defensive, and the only crossfitters on here who post are idiots. Why would you post about crossfit on a running forum? The 90 percent of cool crossfitters are decent people just like the 90 percent of runners are decent.
I'd like to race this guy "Xfit_guy_the_real_one_1". While you're sucking for air, we would see who's fit.
Runningart2004 wrote:
...you can't go into a gym and do a circuit and not have some dumb schmoe ask you "so u doin crossfit?".
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Alan
Yeah, this is my biggest beef with them: acting like whatsisface invented circuit training, cross training, interval training, etc.
Nutella1 wrote:
To be fair. Take 100 non-athletic people and let them start a running program. How many of them will be injured after 10 weeks? I would argue more than 16%. So much for crossfit vs. running.
You cant just say "lets assume this is true" for your argument and call it good. Facts don't work like that.